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Maybe the HN crowd is the wrong group for such statistics, a higher percentage here probably knows how to use their keyboard and OS.

• Bud 1y ago
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• 9rx 1y ago
  Plus being nerdier in general. I, for one, purposely use it more often because of all the hoopla.
  • firesteelrain 1y ago
    Burn him at the stake!
• dns_snek 1y ago
  I think they meant after the release of ChatGPT. If someone never used them before and now uses them all the time it might indicate that they're using ChatGPT... or it might just mean that they learned how to use them after widespread discussions about it.
  • withinboredom 1y ago
    I use em-dashes now more than ever — mostly just to mess with people.
    • brookst 1y ago
      Certainly, it’s great fun to trigger the AI skeptics.
      • Moru 1y ago
        It's not AI skeptics, it's users that does not know how to type — and is vulnerable to hype.
  • deleted 1y ago
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• perihelions 1y ago
  I remember participating in a small thread on how to type an em-dash, on different OS's. It was in March 2023, so before the em-dash meme had started—it was an innocent question then. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35118338#35118598 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35118338#35118598