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Let's focus on the real issue here, which is that HN has apparently normalized the double hyphen in the title to an en dash--yes, an en dash, not even an em das
by kibwen 7mo ago
Let's focus on the real issue here, which is that HN has apparently normalized the double hyphen in the title to an en dash--yes, an en dash, not even an em dash.
- rtpg 7mo agoiOS keyboard autocomplete
- smallerize 7mo agoSurely its copy and paste though?
- chatmasta 7mo agoYou underestimate just how annoying iOS autocomplete can be.
- SilverElfin 7mo agoNot just iOS but macOS too. And it seems to only get worse. And with no notice to users. And no response in their forums.
- dylan604 7mo agooh, no, I notice, but typically not until after hitting send
- chatmasta 7mo agoI swear sometimes it doesn’t apply the corrections until I submit the form. It’s infuriating.
- alwillis 7mo agoI’ve been using Cotypist on macOS [1]. Sometimes it feels like it’s reading my mind when I’m typing. [1]: https://cotypist.app/ https://cotypist.app/
- christoph 7mo agoI really don’t! I switched it all of months ago - autocomplete, autocaps, all of it. I reached a point where the constant frustration had to be worse than any productivity gain it was hoping to offer. A few months on… I like it! Frustration is all gone, any errors are just on me now, and it forces me to slow down a bit and use the brain a bit more!
- jonahx 7mo agodesktop test --
- CarVac 7mo agodouble hyphens – triple hyphens —
- AnonC 7mo agoFor me on iOS: Double hyphens — Triple hyphens —- Actual em dash (typed with more effort, but HN changes it) — The triple hyphens has a gap in it separating the autocorrected en dash and the hyphen.
- johnisgood 7mo agoAnd it should be "--" to begin with, i.e. "--hard".
- byronsharman 7mo agoI agree that it should be left as a double hyphen, but an en dash is far more appropriate considering the decades-long precedent set by LaTeX (and continued by Typst).
- ajross 7mo agoIt's a command line argument. The undeniably correct way to render it is with two minus signs[1] and absolutely not something non-ascii. [1] Not strictly a hyphen, which has its own unicode point (0x2010) outside of ascii. Unicode embraced the ambiguity by calling this point (0x2d) "HYPHEN-MINUS" formally, but really its only unique typographic usage is to represent subtraction.
- minitech 7mo agoThey meant “more appropriate [than an em dash]”. And that minus sign usage of hyphen-minus isn’t unique in Unicode either – see U+2212 MINUS SIGN.
- ajross 7mo agoBut... it's not more appropriate than an em dash for representing command line arguments? I don't see how either is any more incorrect than the other. There's a uniquely correct answer here and the em-dash is not it. Period.
- minitech 7mo agoIt’s about the top-level comment’s horror that ”--” was substituted with “an en dash, not even an em dash”. If you’re picking a substitution for “--”, en dash makes more sense. The comment you originally replied to had already agreed “that it should be left as a double hyphen”.
- ajross 7mo ago> If you’re picking a substitution for “--”, en dash makes more sense. No, it doesn't? This seems like crazy talk to me, like "If you're picking a substitute for saffron, blood plasma makes more sense than monocrystalline silicon". Like, what? It makes zero sense to substitute this at all. It's exactly what it says it is, the "--hard" command line option to "git reset", and you write it in exactly one way.
- 0xbadcafebee 7mo agoArticle: "Major issue with most popular AI coding tool" comments: "ThE tItLe iS aI cOded !!!1"
- butterlesstoast 7mo agoThe best community
- minitech 7mo agoNo, the comment was pointing out that the HN platform automatically replaces `--` in titles with `–`. (I don’t know if that’s true, but that was the intent. Nothing to do with AI.)
- layer8 7mo agoThe article is wrong and the issue is closed.
- yunwal 7mo agoWhere did they say the title is ai coded?
- mrcwinn 7mo agoApple actually had the nerve to make it a point to say they’d made their keyboard intelligence better. What a joke. Can’t keyboard, my ass!
- SoftTalker 7mo agoTwo hyphens for an en-dash, three for an em-dash.
- alcor-z 7mo ago[dead]
- tom_ 7mo agoPro tip: pros don't copy and paste from HN titles straight into the command line. (Or... do they?? Hmm, ok, maybe I need to let this roll around in my mind.)
- dragonwriter 7mo agoThat's LaTeX convention, double hyphen is an en-dash, triple hyphen is an em-dash.