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998244353last Saturday at 6:20 PM4 repliesview on HN

I now use "ASCII em-dashes" by using two hyphens -- like this. Or--if you prefer no spaces--like this.


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rogerrogerrlast Saturday at 6:22 PM

Nah, I’ve started noticing people doing this replacement automatically in LLM output. I just try not to write with dashes anymore.

0gslast Saturday at 6:45 PM

the nn dash remains the goat. the arg dash

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DonHopkinslast Saturday at 11:10 PM

I like the cut of your jib.

audreyfeilast Saturday at 7:16 PM

same, or I use a semicolon

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