[vjerancrnjak]

I like Clickhouse more.

Unrelated, not sure if it is just me, but ever since LLMs became popular, I've been seeing an enormous amounts of special utf8 characters no one used regularly, like this em dash you used.

How is this simple to type? If you're on a phone keyboard, you have to switch to special characters, and then have to long-hold the dash and then slide to em dash.

[arglebarnacle]

On a full keyboard it’s not too bad—just hold alt and tap 0151 on the numpad. Honestly I wish it was harder to type for stylistic reasons—it would help cure me of my em-dash addiction

[vjerancrnjak]

Haha, you haven't used an em dash at all. You even used -- in some of your comments.

LLMs are everywhere.

[airstrike]

- — are built into Mac OS with Opt+- and Opt+Shift+-. I use them all the time

there are also bindings for bullets • and probably other things I'm forgetting (or that may be conflicting with other bindings I have setup)

[conductr]

I noticed that certain browsers started auto converting a double hyphen to an emdash as I type, no LLM needed, I think that’s just a timing coincidence

[cfiggers]

Hi, not the person you asked, but I have an answer to the question.

I have an AutoHotkey script that auto-replaces "--" with "—" (and auto-disables it in contexts where it's likely intended, like SQL editors and my terminal).

I also auto-replace "`-" with "–" so I can conveniently do number ranges with the (objectively correct) n-dash to indicate a range.

[elcritch]

On macs you can do `alt` and `-` to get a –. Even on a phone a proper emdash can add effect over a regular dash.

[dhosek]

Mac people call it option, not alt. alt-minus gives – and alt-shift-minus gives —. Certainly, it’s much easier than the windows enter a numeric code thing which seems insane.

[elcritch]

I've been a Mac guy for a long time. Guess calling it alt instead of option is just a hard habit to break. ;)

[alwa]

My iPhone autocorrects two consecutive hyphens to an em dash. I’m fairly sure it’s not something I configured manually, so I assume it is or was a default. Possibly a component of the “smart punctuation” setting for the keyboard.