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Don’t assume something you cannot prove. It was great writing
by piskov 10mo ago
Don’t assume something you cannot prove. It was great writing
- npunt 10mo agoNormally the 1 sentence per para LinkedIn post for dummies writing style bugs me to no end, but for a technical article that's continually hopping between questions, results, code, and explanations, it fits really well and was a very easy article to skim and understand.
- netsharc 10mo agoIt's action thriller writing for something that's in reality is super dull (my question is loaded with outdated cliches, but would you be telling a girl you're trying to impress at a party about this problem you faced of trying to push some data over the network?). I had to skim over it, like watching a YouTube video at 2x so I don't start evaluating how obnoxious the narrator is.
- bugufu8f83 10mo ago>Don’t assume something you cannot prove. Well it's an inherently unprovable accusation, so assumption will have to do. It reeks of LLM-ese in certain word choices, phrases, and structure, though. I thought it was quite clear. >It was great writing Err... no accounting for taste, I suppose.
- afiori 10mo agoJust saying but LLM-ese as the common dominator of how people wrote, it is likely the writing style of a lot of people
- throw-12-16 10mo agoHow many people do you know that use em dashes —- none.
- piskov 10mo agoDo yourself a favour and use typography layout https://ilyabirman.net/typography-layout/ https://ilyabirman.net/typography-layout/
- throw-12-16 10mo agoEnglish isn't my first language, so I already use an alternate layout.
- afiori 10mo agoI wrote in LaTeX for quite some time so, me.
- tomjakubowski 10mo agoEm-dash has a trivial and mnemonic shortcut on Macs (Option-shift-hyphen), so I've been an em-dash user for as long as I've had one.
- Anamon 10mo agoI committed typing en-dashes and ellipses on Windows to muscle memory. Alt+0150, Alt+0133. Bam! I'm sure there are easier ways this can be set up. But, as I said, muscle memory. Although I'll have to admit that wanting to use proper typography in the first place probably started when I was typesetting a print magazine on a Mac, where it's super easy to do it the proper way. (I'm also never going to let AI slop discourage me from trying to use proper punctuation.)
- PunchyHamster 10mo agoLooked like typical medium.com slop but with a bit more technical detail. Not sure where you see greatness
- rasz 10mo agoYou mean other than this being AI slop company, usage is monitoring AI slop output and author confirming blog is AI slop? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46372060 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46372060
- tylervigen 10mo agoThe author replied below that they used Opus to write the blog post.