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is sed s/—/--/ the new meta
by tensegrist 7mo ago
is sed s/—/--/ the new meta
- arvyy 7mo agohardly new, I've used it before advent of llm popularity, and I wasn't alone
- shilgapira 7mo agoofftopic, but it's interesting how large of a discrepancy there is between the length of your comment and how much time i'd have to spend explaining background info to a non-programmer to get them to understand why this is funny
- pas 7mo agowhy is it funny? it seems like a sincere question
- petit_robert 7mo agoThe way it's written is funny, I find. But I'm a programmer... And as GP wrote, it would take a substantial amount of time to explain to a normie (infinite I'd say, but let's not despair).
- paulddraper 7mo agoI've always used it. My keyboard has -.
- mattkrause 7mo agoIt should be THREE hyphens for an em-dash!
- kelnos 7mo agoIn theory, yes, endash would be "--" and emdash would be "---", but oof, the three hyphens looks like way too much in normal text. So I've always used "--".
- kelnos 7mo agoI have used "--" as a lazy-man's emdash for decades at this point. Once I heard that people started assuming text that uses emdashes was written by an LLM I got worried that people were going to think that I'm an LLM, but then I realized the LLMs use the real unicode emdash character, while I just use two regular ASCII-zone hyphens. Whew. (Also I just learned that ASCII 0x2d/unicode U+002D is more properly called a "hyphen" [well, "HYPHEN-MINUS"], not a "dash".)
- tensegrist 7mo agowell, that was my point, that people have seemingly begun replacing — with -- or --- in llm-generated comments recently this is maybe the fifth time i've seen this happen on hn in the last few weeks