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> I continue to write all of my words and software by hand, for the reasons I’ve discussed in this piece—but I am not confident I will hold out forever. There
by barbazoo 6mo ago
> I continue to write all of my words and software by hand, for the reasons I’ve discussed in this piece—but I am not confident I will hold out forever.
There it is, an actual em-dash in the wild, written by hand.
- aphyr 6mo agoI put... I'd guess around 60 hours into editing this piece, and had review from a dozen-odd friends, and I am still finding and fixing errors. I imagine that asking an LLM for a copyediting pass probably would have been helpful, but goshdarnit, I want to show that we can still write somewhat-passable prose by hand.
- bluefirebrand 6mo ago> I want to show that we can still write somewhat-passable prose by hand For what it's worth I think it's pretty reasonably good prose, not merely somewhat passable
- aphyr 6mo agoThank you <3