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The em dash (at least from an American perspective) is the "regular dash". Referring constantly to the "em dash" is a new thing; in my experience, it used to be understood that "da…

More to the point, even if you type fast enough to transcribe the lecture (or you know steno or pen shorthand or whatever), transcribing simply doesn't do the job of note-taking. (…

>But then again I also never seen anyone writing a word and doing the dots afterwards. Interesting, I'd never really heard of it being done any other way. I suppose it occurred to …

> Byzaboos Hey that's fresh. Do they have Hittitomori too?

Good thinking. Might as well get a three-day weekend out of it!

TYPOCALYPSE — 186,943 pts wave 33 · 40 wpm · 91% acc · 985 kills · x144 best combo Let us enter a name for e-peen points Consider displaying active ("locked") word at the center as…

Or are they? I don't know what to think anymore.

Oh, hell! How the tables have pivoted. I was sitting here shaking my head at all the people who didn't realize this postdoc had written a satirical piece and wasn't really insistin…

Look into "worded thinking", "unworded speech", "partially worded speech": https://hurlburt.faculty.unlv.edu/codebook.html See also papers from Hurlburt and others on "unsymbolized…

Oh, neat. From the demo, it looks like it retains faster movement during strafe-running. And edge-jumping (and presumably crouch-jumping) as well, or is that a different thing bein…

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> sysadmin Another domain where LLMs are very effective at confidently leading people down a messy path. I have a roommate using LLMs to guide him through setting up some ollama st…

I used to do audio transcription and some video captioning. Found it a bit drudgerous and fatiguing in rather specific ways, but I was effective at it and could find some satisfact…

Oh boy, that means I'll be a real pirate! I can't wait

> and will be ranked on how deeply the integration goes. Oh, that must be why the Gmail web interface has so many spans that contain nothing but another span (including the span co…

I saw the "Press /" using Thorium (a Chromium fork). Tried to use the element picker in uBlock to get rid of it. This failed, of course, because the thing to be blocked disappears …

mail.google.com##div[aria-label="Message Body"] span[contenteditable="false"] It is admittedly a bit beyond "easy customizability" once you find yourself sifting through element at…

Marketing content without a reader persona or a writer persona, or rather, without the backing of a real consciousness with agency and life experience. I wonder if this might be pa…

> I'm not dropping emdashes -- though you can always tell mine by their two-hyphen form lol I think of this as a dash (abstract function of punctuation) but not an em dash (concret…

For what it's worth (or maybe just for the record) I have a counterexample: Gemini once dug in its heels and insisted that some ebay listings for GPUs were scams because the cards …

Yes, this is the kind of thing I've been hoping more people would notice. I think another tell with a long lifespan is that it will try to write about a thing it experienced, but h…

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Not always or inherently, I would say, but if you can't help consciously noticing how much a piece uses tricolons, or negative parallel constructions, or dashes offsetting punchy c…

In my experience, and as someone who has technically been a professional copy editor before (in the sense that I got paid by someone to perform line/copy editing of some material o…

The robot can be made to write any such thing In the interest of not occupying significant page/screen height with LLM output, example prompts+responses here: https://dpaste.com/H9…