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this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2025
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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I write
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for "en dash" and---
for "em dash" and I end up looking like an asshole in emails a lot. However, they appear to work correctly here:Also, Gnome Characters can be useful, though I have been looking for a good replacement.
I like to use
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in plain text too! LaTeX user high five...?Although I read somewhere recently that some people consider usage of em-dashes as a sign of AI-generated text. Oh well.
this feels like a pattern too — so many naturally divergent or non-standard (from the perspective of a white American who thinks they own the English language) elements of writing are getting nonsensically trashjacketed as telltale signs that a text must be generated by an LLM. see also paully g trashjacketing “delve” for purely racist reasons and the authors of the Nix open letter having the accusation of LLM use leveled at them by people who didn’t read the letter and didn’t want anyone else to either.
I need to finish crying over all my underfull hboxes, can we high-five in the evening?