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Re:Show HN: Stasher – Burn-after-read secrets from the CLI, ... by wrs on Thursday August 07, 2025 @11:41AM (#44825945)
Everyone please just stop with the em dash hysteria. You just tried to use one yourself — apparently you just don’t know how to type it.
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Re:Show HN: Stasher – Burn-after-read secrets from the CLI, ... by FergusArgyll on Thursday August 07, 2025 @12:00PM (#44826224)
We'll find out in an hour, but I bet openai trained em-dashes out of gpt-5 and that will confuse a lot of people. At least you'll be able to write the way you want to...
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Re:Show HN: Stasher – Burn-after-read secrets from the CLI, ... by indigodaddy on Thursday August 07, 2025 @12:02PM (#44826264)
I use emdashes like this-- see the difference
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Re:Show HN: Stasher – Burn-after-read secrets from the CLI, ... by wrs on Saturday August 09, 2025 @05:18PM (#44850324)
Yes I do — and that’s not an em dash, it’s two hyphens. You’re not using a manual typewriter, you have Unicode. You don’t make an exclamation point from an apostrophe and a period, do you?
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