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Just curious, are you purposely mocking the LLM writing style?
by Tepix 6mo ago
Just curious, are you purposely mocking the LLM writing style?
- DANmode 6mo agoThat’s how everybody in academia, tech, and published authors in general used to write. Where do you think the LLM is getting it from? ^_^
- red-iron-pine 6mo agothe full on em dash requires a different character than - or -- it was generated that way, or else this person happens to know the correct combination of buttons to make that happen. in 2026, at least 20-40% of social media traffic is bots (and probably higher with better LLMs), so it is usually safer to just assume.
- macintux 6mo agoOn a Mac, at least, the "correct combination of buttons" is trivial and easy to remember, even for someone like me who rarely uses em-dash. (But, I want to start using it more because I'm sick to death of people treating it as a scarlet letter.)
- ajju 6mo agoOption-shift-hyphen Thanks for sticking up for my humanity ;)
- IAmBroom 6mo agoMicrosoft Word changes "--" to an em-dash, by default.
- SAI_Peregrinus 6mo agoOn Linux, with a compose key, it's <compose><-><-><.> (at least with the settings I have, I don't think I overrode that one). "⸻" is even more fun. You can even make your own sequences, e.g. I've got <compose><O><h><m> for "Ω", and <compose><m><u> for "μ", very handy for electrical stuff like "160μA at 1.8V needs a resistance of 1.25kΩ, dissipating 288μW".
- picture 6mo agoIn pedantic tradition, I would like to gently remind you that there should be a space between a number and its unit, according to SI standard/NIST.
- DANmode 6mo ago> or else this person happens to know the correct combination of buttons to make that happen. Yes, some people care about maximum impact of their words. > at least 20-40% of social media traffic is bots (and probably higher with better LLMs), so it is usually safer to just assume. Look around you. If you see 40% bots in HN comments, find a therapist.