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judge2020 • today at 3:28 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

Were semicolons in subheadings common before AI? This subheading of the TomsHardware article just seems very artificial:

> The fingerprint only switched the USB connection on; nothing on the card was encrypted.


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swinglock • today at 3:39 PM

Not long ago it would have been an em dash.

weego • today at 4:08 PM

They were if you read a news source that catered to literate readers.

solyin • today at 4:03 PM

Oh god dammit, I have to stop using semicolons now? That's stupid.

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Loughla • today at 3:42 PM

I mean, it's a terrible subheading because it's way too long, but it's grammatically correct. It doesn't read like AI to me, why do you think it is?

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