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If anything I use them _less_ now thanks to this whole thing.


Yes. Defanging smart quotes, double-dashing em's, spelling out numbers, and swearing off emojis. Next up, double-spaced sentences.


HTML still collapses multiple spaces, doesn't it? Does HN go out of its way to add an nbsp glyph? Typing this post the original way I learned to type, with two spaces after the end of each sentence, to see if it renders that way. Here we go!

(Incidentally, I love that backlash against LLM writing has more people developing as much of an allergy to emojis and content-marketing- and personal-branding-style writing as I've long had)


I guess you have to choose now whether to be accused of being a Clanker or a Boomer.


A reminder that according to the HN guidelines, there's no need to use underscores or other annotations to emphasize words.


I'm from the Myspace/MSN generation, old habits die hard.




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