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Re: Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

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Post by jmmcd »

djmips wrote: post #173
doe88 wrote: post #40

0-days-vibes-vulns ? There should be a new category, for spotting and handling the em-dashes of this brave new world of vulns and making the old fossils like me only picking my head up for the old painfully still hand-crafted artisanal ones instead. A kind of label, like free-range for eggs, in sum.

Those aren't even em-dashes and yet there's a huge thread talking about them.

It's interesting that Claude also over-uses en-dashes. It's very willing to create compound-noun-phrases, especially in that compressed-summary-paragraph it often writes. The 0-days-vibes-vulns that started this thread looks a lot like that, but it could be Claude directly, or just Claude's style influencing people who spend too much time with it.

Re: Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

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Post by DrewADesign »

Andrex wrote: post #236
DrewADesign wrote: post #176

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I don’t give a flying fuck what people think. Most colleges copied or adopted my (for a few semesters) school’s style guide, so LLMs are essentially copying me , and I won’t change my punctuation usage because they suck.

> I don’t give a flying fuck what people think. So all your writings are private, then? Do you have a motivation to communicate or publish? You're posting here on HN, so I think so. Why do you do think you do it?

Ok— I don’t give a flying fuck if people jump to the conclusion that I am an LLM. And that concludes my willingness to engage in those pedantic semantic antics.

Re: Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

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Post by DonHopkins »

rogerrogerr wrote: post #86
tyre wrote: post #54

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Yes, big pet peeve of the new world. Every em dash is apparently an AI trigger. Back in my day, they were a sign of great respect within my people.

I used to be an em-dash user, but now my opinion is that I’d rather be perceived as someone who does not want to be confused with an LLM. So I’ve changed my writing style.

I'm a secret invisible ­ soft hypenator. I like to break words in whacky places that change their meaning only when they need to be broken. Like Democ­rats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_hyphen

It's a perverted expression of hidden passive aggression.

Re: Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

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Post by DonHopkins »

998244353 wrote: post #131
rogerrogerr wrote: post #86

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I used to be an em-dash user, but now my opinion is that I’d rather be perceived as someone who does not want to be confused with an LLM. So I’ve changed my writing style.

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

I like the cut of your jib.

Re: Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

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Post by DonHopkins »

audreyfei wrote: post #169
998244353 wrote: post #131

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

same, or I use a semicolon

I use a semistoma due to medical reasons.

Re: Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

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Post by SmashDan »

falcor84 wrote: post #162
brookst wrote: post #135

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It’s fine to use em-dashes — just be srre to add typos.

You can also have the em-dash itself be a typo, e.g. using the figure dash ‒ (U+2012) instead.

I just use a hyphen. It's easier to type, easily understood and you won't be accused of using an LLM.

Re: Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

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Post by SmashDan »

audreyfei wrote: post #169
998244353 wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

same, or I use a semicolon

semi-colon will have me thinking you've typed up your comment in Microsoft Word

Re: Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

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Post by Dylan16807 »

utopiah wrote: post #55
tyre wrote: post #52

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> Please do not abuse these. Reminds me of Jamie Wolf's joke about bestiality laws. Who are those for? What stops most people from bestiality is… not wanting to have sex with animals! For people who do want to, what, they won't because of… the law?? Who will this comment stop??

If it stops even just 1 person once, isn't it already worth it?

As a very general statement, there's a cost to having laws exist. A law that stops one human-scale action ever is very unlikely to be worth the overhead.

Re: Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

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Post by aendruk »

feanaro wrote: post #156
Syntonicles wrote: post #114

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I for one am striving for clarity and couldn't care less about being confused with AI. However I've only ever used regular dashes. How do you type an em-dash? Is it OS specific? I've taken to using Emacs insert-char with a list of frequently used ones in my scratch buffer. My memory for Unicode is unreliable.

> How do you type an em-dash? Is it OS specific? On Linux X11 at least, you can enable the Compose key and then press ` ---` which results in — and ` --.` which gives you –

“⎄---”
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