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maplethorpetoday at 5:49 AM3 repliesview on HN

They should include users who used a double hyphen, too -- not everyone has easy access to em dashes.


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bigiaintoday at 7:52 AM

That would false positive me. I have used double dashes to delimit quote attribution for decades.

Like this:

"You can't believe everything you read on the internet." -- Abraham Lincoln, personal correspondence, 1863

gblarggtoday at 6:34 AM

Does AI use double hyphens? I thought the point was to find who wasn't AI that used proper em dashes.

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venturecrueltytoday at 5:53 AM

Oof, I feel like you'll accidentally capture a lot of getopt_long() fans. ;)

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