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this is the start of everything falling apart, i can feel it (media.fedia.io)
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image saying "at least the important software isn't being vibe cod-" (cut off) and showing a graph of em dashes in the linux kernel over time with a sharp rise the past few years
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[–] 69 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

As an actual human who uses em dashes

or usually, two or three hyphens that turn into an em dash in Markdown

I feel personally attacked.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    aren't those regular dashes? em dashes seem just a bit longer

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  • [–] 25 points 2 weeks ago* (3 children)

    N dashes. They are as wide as an n. M dashes are as wide as an m.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    But what is em?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Microsoft Word also appears to autocorrect dashes into em-dashes. I'm not sure it's because of copilot since I noticed around 2024, but a bunch of documents I use at work, drafted/revised in 2021, are full of them.

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  • [+] -21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)
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