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Same here. I recently learned it was an LLM thing, and I've been using them forever. Also relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45226150 https://news.

Same here. I recently learned it was an LLM thing, and I've been using them forever. Also relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45226150 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45226150

tkgally 1y ago
> I’ve been using them forever. Many other HN contributors have, too. Here’s the pre-ChatGPT em dash leaderboard: https://www.gally.net/miscellaneous/hn-em-dash-user-leaderboard-v2.html https://www.gally.net/miscellaneous/hn-em-dash-user-leaderbo...
- walkabout 1y ago
  This would be a pretty hilarious board for anyone who likes the em-dash and who has had many fairly active accounts (one at a time) on here due to periodically scrambling their passwords to avoid getting attached to high karma or to take occasional breaks from the site. Should there be such people.
- Ericson2314 1y ago
  Can anyone make it go beyond 200? I feel like I deserve to be somewhere in there — at least I would be sad if I didn't make top 1000!
- rileytg 1y ago
  i suspect it’s a trait of programmers, we like control flow type things. i used to find myself nesting parenthesis…
  - kragen 1y ago
    Also we like text (maybe not as an inherent thing but as a selection bias) and we're more likely to have customized our keyboard setup than random people off the street.
- kragen 1y ago
  Thank you for this! Apparently I'm #4 by total em-dash uses, #14 by average em dashes per comment, and #4 at max em dashes per comment, since apparently I posted a comment containing 18 em dashes once.
kangs 1y ago
its not an llm thing -- its just -- folks don't know how to use them (pun intended). Same for ; "" vs '', ex, eg, fe, etc. and so many more. I like em all, but I'm crazy.
- fwgijcqywqeo 1y ago
  crazy vibes man
- jpt4 1y ago
  > fe Interesting, I have never encountered this initialism in the wild, to my recollection: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/f.e.#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/f.e.#English

Same here. I recently learned it was an LLM thing, and I've been using them forever. Also relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45226150 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45226150

tkgally 1y ago

> I’ve been using them forever. Many other HN contributors have, too. Here’s the pre-ChatGPT em dash leaderboard: https://www.gally.net/miscellaneous/hn-em-dash-user-leaderboard-v2.html https://www.gally.net/miscellaneous/hn-em-dash-user-leaderbo...

walkabout 1y ago
This would be a pretty hilarious board for anyone who likes the em-dash and who has had many fairly active accounts (one at a time) on here due to periodically scrambling their passwords to avoid getting attached to high karma or to take occasional breaks from the site. Should there be such people.
Ericson2314 1y ago
Can anyone make it go beyond 200? I feel like I deserve to be somewhere in there — at least I would be sad if I didn't make top 1000!
rileytg 1y ago
i suspect it’s a trait of programmers, we like control flow type things. i used to find myself nesting parenthesis…
- kragen 1y ago
  Also we like text (maybe not as an inherent thing but as a selection bias) and we're more likely to have customized our keyboard setup than random people off the street.
kragen 1y ago
Thank you for this! Apparently I'm #4 by total em-dash uses, #14 by average em dashes per comment, and #4 at max em dashes per comment, since apparently I posted a comment containing 18 em dashes once.

kangs 1y ago

its not an llm thing -- its just -- folks don't know how to use them (pun intended). Same for ; "" vs '', ex, eg, fe, etc. and so many more. I like em all, but I'm crazy.

fwgijcqywqeo 1y ago
crazy vibes man
jpt4 1y ago
> fe Interesting, I have never encountered this initialism in the wild, to my recollection: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/f.e.#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/f.e.#English