[keybored]

I answered your question plainly. What do you want?

What place are you posting on? The place where people make their own operating systems, solder their own electronics, make up their own fantasy realms (world building), make their own markup languages for their own static blogs, make up their own programming languages to solve Advent of Code... but having a disproportinate amount of people who use the Compose key (Linux), have programmable keyboards, configure their keyboard in software, maybe use a plugin to write HN comments in a text editor where they can get certain symbols via `--` or whatever—woah, that’s just an impossibility in your mind.

[alvah]

"Yes, I know you can use a shortcut. 99.9% of people don't." <- this is the point you missed.

[keybored]

Looks like you missed this part of the comment, by me, that you replied to.

> This is the home of the writing luminaries that can’t imagine outputting em-dashes by hand.

↑ That thing right there.

HN users are much more technical than most people.