[mappu]

If you're using AI to write all those em-dashes, please add a disclaimer.

For humans i would say a shorter summary is Linear.app syncs a client IndexedDB with the server using naive last-write-wins, no conflict detection, no OT, no CRDT. There's a global sync ID that the server is in control of. Most of the article describes minutae of the json schema.

[evaneykelen]

On macOS, typing two consecutive hyphens automatically gets converted to an em-dash in many applications: no AI involved necessarily.

[notpushkin]

I’ve built a custom layout for that (and a bunch of other symbols I frequently use). ⌥ hyphen for en-dash, ⌥ ⇧ hyphen for em-dash (and ⌥ M is for minus): https://typo.ale.sh/

(The idea isn’t new, of course: the default macOS layout’s 3rd layer is absolutely bonkers. I think Ilya Birman was the first: https://ilyabirman.net/typography-layout/)

[jdxcode]

those are the default macos keybindings for en-dash and em-dash characters

[notpushkin]

Good point, totally forgot about that :/

[pottertheotter]

Never thought someone would be anti em-dashes.

[dheatov]

I am anti-reading content generated by probabilistic model of human language, especially if published without much editing. Em-dash is a strong indicator of such.

[chrismorgan]

I can’t comment about other venues, but on Hacker News it’s not at all. The type of people to assiduously use appropriate dashes, quotation marks, &c. have always been heavily represented here.

[jurip]

It used to be it was easy to tell apart Mac and Windows users by em dash usage. Now apparently Mac users are considered LLMs.

[ljm]

Do people have to lower their literacy to the level of a 6 year old and write like complete dumbasses in order to convince you that something isn’t AI generated?

I’m sure that pointing out the word ‘delve’ or the use of em-dash says more about the literacy of the reader than it does about the humanity of whoever wrote it.

[MangoToupe]

> Em-dash is a strong indicator of such.

I see the blind superstition stage of AI has set in