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Re:We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it... by afiori on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @02:47AM (#46373396)
Just saying but LLM-ese as the common dominator of how people wrote, it is likely the writing style of a lot of people
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Re:We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it... by throw-12-16 on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @11:11AM (#46376775)
How many people do you know that use em dashes —- none.
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Re:We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it... by piskov on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @04:45PM (#46379586)
Do yourself a favour and use typography layout

https://ilyabirman.net/typography-layout/

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Re:We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it... by throw-12-16 on Thursday December 25, 2025 @01:31AM (#46382586)
English isn't my first language, so I already use an alternate layout.
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Re:We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it... by afiori on Thursday December 25, 2025 @04:41PM (#46387213)
I wrote in LaTeX for quite some time so, me.
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Re:We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it... by tomjakubowski on Saturday December 27, 2025 @02:17AM (#46399851)
Em-dash has a trivial and mnemonic shortcut on Macs (Option-shift-hyphen), so I've been an em-dash user for as long as I've had one.
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Re:We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it... by Anamon on Saturday December 27, 2025 @05:35AM (#46400751)
I committed typing en-dashes and ellipses on Windows to muscle memory. Alt+0150, Alt+0133. Bam!

I'm sure there are easier ways this can be set up. But, as I said, muscle memory.

Although I'll have to admit that wanting to use proper typography in the first place probably started when I was typesetting a print magazine on a Mac, where it's super easy to do it the proper way.

(I'm also never going to let AI slop discourage me from trying to use proper punctuation.)

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