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Don’t assume something you cannot prove. It was great writing

Normally the 1 sentence per para LinkedIn post for dummies writing style bugs me to no end, but for a technical article that's continually hopping between questions, results, code, and explanations, it fits really well and was a very easy article to skim and understand.

It's action thriller writing for something that's in reality is super dull (my question is loaded with outdated cliches, but would you be telling a girl you're trying to impress at a party about this problem you faced of trying to push some data over the network?). I had to skim over it, like watching a YouTube video at 2x so I don't start evaluating how obnoxious the narrator is.

>Don’t assume something you cannot prove.

Well it's an inherently unprovable accusation, so assumption will have to do. It reeks of LLM-ese in certain word choices, phrases, and structure, though. I thought it was quite clear.

>It was great writing

Err... no accounting for taste, I suppose.

Just saying but LLM-ese as the common dominator of how people wrote, it is likely the writing style of a lot of people

How many people do you know that use em dashes —- none.

Do yourself a favour and use typography layout

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

English isn't my first language, so I already use an alternate layout.

I wrote in LaTeX for quite some time so, me.

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.

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.)

The author replied below that they used Opus to write the blog post.

You mean other than this being AI slop company, usage is monitoring AI slop output and author confirming blog is AI slop? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46372060

Looked like typical medium.com slop but with a bit more technical detail. Not sure where you see greatness

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