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James Webb telescope (I got to see it before it went into space) has detected stars 10 billion light years from earth. That makes space really, really big with lots and lots of stars. Given those numbers, it seems quite likely that intelligence can be found. However, as Enrico Fermi put it in a brief quote "Where is everybody?" The Fermi paradox "is the discrepancy between the lack of conclusive evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life and the apparently high likelihood of its existence."
At 10 billion light years away, how do we know that source of light still exists?
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Oxy-nitrogen atmospheres like Earth's are inherently unstable without life as we know it - the oxygen would combine with almost anything and be flushed from the atmosphere in a geologically short time. We can conceivably also detect technological civilizations that produce large amounts of electromagnetic radiation. What about the intelligent non-technological life? The Greeks and Romans were just as intelligent as modern humans, but their civilization could not be detected at interstellar ranges. How many civilizations are trapped at that level?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I don't know if it's the greatest song ever, but Brad Delp (RIP) certainly had a great voice.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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He had quite a voice. Too bad he did himself in.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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If you're going to mess with Notepad, why not add adjustable tab-stops?! That would be useful.
And maybe a recent file list -- why didn't you add that?
(I just began using a Windows 11 laptop.)
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I actually like Win11's Notepad. It's quick and useful for ya know... taking down quick notes. It's not meant to be a programming tool.
What do you hate about it so much... given the fact it's meant to be quick and dirty for taking notes?
The theme? Tabs? It doing a soft close like Sublime? Notepad pee in your cheerios or something?
Jeremy Falcon
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Tabs mostly, but now that I know about them, maybe I can get out of the habit of using the X in the upper-right corner -- which has been the way to do it for decades!
Oh, you dirty dogs! So now I see how to switch from "Continue previous session" to "Start new session and discard unsaved changes". 
A text editor does not have "sessions", dagnabit!
I see nothing useful added. Adding useful stuff would be worthwhile.
And I still need to find out how to have proper square corners on windows. 
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It's gonna be ok... it's gonna be ok... 
Jeremy Falcon
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P.S.
Jeremy Falcon wrote: it's meant to be quick and dirty for taking notes
Ah, I forgot to address that. Yes, quick, dirty, notes -- all day long. So features which enhance that -- such as adjustable tab-stops have been needed from the very beginning. Even a VT100 doesn't enforce eight-space TAB stops!
Anyway, other than simple notes, I also use Notepad for XML, HTML, and simple C# utilities -- and the existing TAB functionality hinders all off that. Not a big deal, but irksome when I naturally hit TAB. And read-me files too.
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Again, Notepad isn’t designed for devs. So, pay a few bucks and start using Sublime. Don’t know why devs are so cheap when it comes to software. Yeah, tab alignment is whack in Notepad, but no need to get worked up over it. Nobody shot your dog man.
Jeremy Falcon
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It's just a nice-to-have, been using forever, and wrote my own editor which has features probably no one else wants.
Just irked that they keep adding useless crap and don't address something which would be useful.
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You don't need a recent file list if you use the jump list on the taskbar icon.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Which I don't. I don't particularly want a recent file list either, but it would make more sense than the changes which were made.
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Just wait 'til you see the new cmd.
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"Terminal"? Yeah, I set it to console mode. It's why I want my square corners back. The round corners clip the bottom line.
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