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Comment by mappu | Hacker News Reader

If you're using AI to write all those em-dashes, please add a disclaimer.

For humans i would say a shorter summary is Linear.app syncs a client IndexedDB with the server using naive last-write-wins, no conflict detection, no OT, no CRDT. There's a global sync ID that the server is in control of. Most of the article describes minutae of the json schema.

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On macOS, typing two consecutive hyphens automatically gets converted to an em-dash in many applications: no AI involved necessarily.

I’ve built a custom layout for that (and a bunch of other symbols I frequently use). ⌥ hyphen for en-dash, ⌥ ⇧ hyphen for em-dash (and ⌥ M is for minus): https://typo.ale.sh/

(The idea isn’t new, of course: the default macOS layout’s 3rd layer is absolutely bonkers. I think Ilya Birman was the first: https://ilyabirman.net/typography-layout/)

those are the default macos keybindings for en-dash and em-dash characters

Good point, totally forgot about that :/

Never thought someone would be anti em-dashes.

I am anti-reading content generated by probabilistic model of human language, especially if published without much editing. Em-dash is a strong indicator of such.

It used to be it was easy to tell apart Mac and Windows users by em dash usage. Now apparently Mac users are considered LLMs.

Do people have to lower their literacy to the level of a 6 year old and write like complete dumbasses in order to convince you that something isn’t AI generated?

I’m sure that pointing out the word ‘delve’ or the use of em-dash says more about the literacy of the reader than it does about the humanity of whoever wrote it.

I can’t comment about other venues, but on Hacker News it’s not at all. The type of people to assiduously use appropriate dashes, quotation marks, &c. have always been heavily represented here.

> Em-dash is a strong indicator of such.

I see the blind superstition stage of AI has set in

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