The way CTRL-C in Postgres CLI cancels queries is incredibly hack-y

Re:The way CTRL-C in Postgres CLI cancels queries is incredi... by kelnos on Monday March 23, 2026 @05:34PM (#47495412)

I have used "--" as a lazy-man's emdash for decades at this point. Once I heard that people started assuming text that uses emdashes was written by an LLM I got worried that people were going to think that I'm an LLM, but then I realized the LLMs use the real unicode emdash character, while I just use two regular ASCII-zone hyphens. Whew.

(Also I just learned that ASCII 0x2d/unicode U+002D is more properly called a "hyphen" [well, "HYPHEN-MINUS"], not a "dash".)

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Re:The way CTRL-C in Postgres CLI cancels queries is incredi... by tensegrist on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @11:58AM (#47504620)

well, that was my point, that people have seemingly begun replacing — with -- or --- in llm-generated comments recently

this is maybe the fifth time i've seen this happen on hn in the last few weeks

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