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998244353
2 hours ago
I now use "ASCII em-dashes" by using two hyphens -- like this. Or--if you prefer no spaces--like this.
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rogerrogerr
2 hours ago
Nah, I’ve started noticing people doing this replacement automatically in LLM output. I just try not to write with dashes anymore.
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0gs
1 hour ago
the nn dash remains the goat. the arg dash
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tim-tday
1 hour ago
Don’t you love when your arg dashes get autocorrected to emdashes? And by love I mean hate with the fiery passion of a thousand suns.
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hamburglar
47 minutes ago
Agreed. On an iPhone that’s the easiest way to type an em dash and consequently the easiest way to fuck up trying to write out a command line example.
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audreyfei
1 hour ago
same, or I use a semicolon
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