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Nice try, bot! /s For lack of an easy way to type it on my computer I tend to use parentheses (which effectively serve the same purpose) but will opt for an em
by zenoprax 1y ago
Nice try, bot! /s
For lack of an easy way to type it on my computer I tend to use parentheses (which effectively serve the same purpose) but will opt for an em dash more often when typing on my phone at the risk of bookish messages and notes.
Coworkers have emailed me before suggesting a certain course of action which I can tell is heavily influenced by an LLM. "I think we should X because Y" to which I just think "Is this really what you know and believe?". If I wanted an LLM to answer I could have asked it myself. But I don't accuse — I ask for more evidence or a better argument because if I'm forced to work with an LLM by proxy I am going to reflect the burden of dealing with one back to the author.
- kzhe 1y agoEspanso can be set up to make it easier, along with Powertoys on Windows and alt+shift+dash on the mac keyboard layout
- zenoprax 1y agoAs a Linux user... I should be embarrassed to not have set up a keybind for this. Not sure why I didn't think of it before!
- encrypted_bird 1y agoHello, felloe Linux user! That being said, fyi, most Linux distros (or at least many!) have by default the shortcut `ctrl+shift+U` then the hex value of the Unicode character. So, for example, the en dash is U+2013 and the em dash is U+2014, so you would press `ctrl+shift+U` then type in "2014" then space and it inputs it! I use it all the time! It's very useful!