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The text reads suspiciously like AI too. I don't X -- I Y. Short paragraphs, lots of em-dashes.
by alexwennerberg 8mo ago
The text reads suspiciously like AI too. I don't X -- I Y. Short paragraphs, lots of em-dashes.
- furyofantares 8mo agoIt does look like it passed through an LLM, but you're wrong about em-dashes. There are no em-dashes in it, just hyphens.
- alexwennerberg 8mo agoOdd. Hyphens used as though they were em-dashes, which I guess looks the same in a fixed-width font
- lombasihir 8mo agoi was always curious how these em dashes were written? like in my keyboard i dont see the symbol, is there any shortcut?
- megous 8mo agoSome markdown-like static blog generators just replace -- with emdash. I used one such in the past, written in PHP by someone who was keen on proper typography.
- furyofantares 8mo agoOn macOS, option plus hyphen gives an em-dash. Also if you're on macOS you should try some other keyboard keys too with option.
- frizlab 8mo agoI believe em-dash are made using shift-option-dash. AFAIK option-dash gives an en-dash.
- furyofantares 8mo agoYeah that's right, thanks.
- xigoi 8mo agoOn Linux, it’s [Compose]--- (or [Compose]--. for an en dash)
- ziml77 8mo agoThe title alone was enough for me to suspect exactly what I'd see. A post praising AI, written by AI.