Re:Why every Rust crate feels like a research paper on abstr...
by Hasnep on Sunday October 19, 2025 @08:24PM
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If you care about endashes then you'll know that they're not supposed to be used to separate ideas in a sentence, that's what emdashes are for. That makes me think it's not LLM generated because LLMs know how to use emdashes.
Re:Why every Rust crate feels like a research paper on abstr...
by virtualritz on Monday October 20, 2025 @05:10AM
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Indeed. In English it is an em-dash. Not brackeded by spaces, although you should bracket by thin spaces to make sure you get some separation, optically. And line breaks in apps that are unaware this is a separator.
In many other languages ideas are separated by en-dashes (surrounded by spaces).
In the case at hand the use of en-dashes in English text instead of the correct em-dashes could also be a sign of a non-native speaker caring about micro-typography and just doing the wrong thing. :)
The LLM conclusion doesn't seem well supported either way.
Presumably the author is one of them. Or they simply use a text editing or blogging software that takes care of it.
E.g. Markdown with smarty-pants feature turned on generates them automatically from '--'. 'Em' dashes require '---'.
Coincidentally Rust's `cargo doc` does this for you -- just for example.
The conclusion that a text containing such micro-typographic niceties must be LLM-generated is a fallacy thusly.
Your other 'evidence' sounds like an interpretation to me. Maybe you should quote the sections you mean?
Otherwise your critique seems superficially limited to form, not contents -- an ad-hominem in disguise one may be tempted to conclude.