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I now use "ASCII em-dashes" by using two hyphens -- like this. Or--if you prefer no spaces--like this.
rogerrogerr
18 days ago
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Nah, I’ve started noticing people doing this replacement automatically in LLM output. I just try not to write with dashes anymore.
0gs
18 days ago
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the nn dash remains the goat. the arg dash
tim-tday
18 days ago
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Don’t you love when your arg dashes get autocorrected to emdashes? And by love I mean hate with the fiery passion of a thousand suns.
hamburglar
18 days ago
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Agreed. On an iPhone that’s the easiest way to type an em dash and consequently the easiest way to fuck up trying to write out a command line example.
DonHopkins
18 days ago
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I like the cut of your jib.
audreyfei
18 days ago
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same, or I use a semicolon
DonHopkins
18 days ago
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I use a semistoma due to medical reasons.
SmashDan
18 days ago
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semi-colon will have me thinking you've typed up your comment in Microsoft Word
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