[alexwennerberg]

The text reads suspiciously like AI too. I don't X -- I Y. Short paragraphs, lots of em-dashes.

[furyofantares]

It does look like it passed through an LLM, but you're wrong about em-dashes. There are no em-dashes in it, just hyphens.

[alexwennerberg]

Odd. Hyphens used as though they were em-dashes, which I guess looks the same in a fixed-width font

[ziml77]

The title alone was enough for me to suspect exactly what I'd see. A post praising AI, written by AI.

[lombasihir]

i was always curious how these em dashes were written? like in my keyboard i dont see the symbol, is there any shortcut?

[megous]

Some markdown-like static blog generators just replace -- with emdash.

I used one such in the past, written in PHP by someone who was keen on proper typography.

[furyofantares]

On macOS, option plus hyphen gives an em-dash. Also if you're on macOS you should try some other keyboard keys too with option.

[frizlab]

I believe em-dash are made using shift-option-dash. AFAIK option-dash gives an en-dash.

[furyofantares]

Yeah that's right, thanks.

[xigoi]

On Linux, it’s [Compose]--- (or [Compose]--. for an en dash)