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by jasonkester 4328 days ago
Existence Disproof: I personally have a terrible memory. As an example, on the keyboard of nearly every computer I've used in the last 15 years of my ~20 years as a professional computer programmer, I've written this in felt tip pen:

\r\n

I can't remember whether it's a forward or back slash. Ever. Even though I use that at least once every single day, it still takes two tries every single time. I honestly just googled it to be sure since I don't seem to have it scribbled on this new machine.

And to be clear, I've had a very successful career.

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You won't forget \r\n ever again: it spells "ReturN".