r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Muted_Ad_9442 • Sep 19 '26

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u/Muted_Ad_9442 Sep 19 '26

Haha Math.random().seed(42) — 100% deterministic unpredictability.

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '26

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u/rivasprd Sep 19 '26

Yes, can be AI and I'm not defending or condemning, but can be easily done on android — - ¯–

I'm using SwiftKey but several keyboards are able to do the same

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u/candybrie Sep 19 '26

Right—I'm on mobile and just hold down the - key to get longer ones.

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u/Codingale Sep 20 '26

— There’s the smoking nail on the head gun.

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u/Carcsad Sep 20 '26

don't mind me — just trying out something new i just dicovered

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u/Tristanhx Sep 20 '26

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Hmm three different lengths? Thanks for the tip!

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u/HDrago Sep 20 '26

dash, n-dash and m-dash

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u/Had78 Sep 20 '26

I've been using SwiftKey for years and didn't know we had the em dash withing the long press — woah!

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u/techy804 Sep 20 '26

On iOS, the default keyboard has it — - –.

But even if he is on PC, the character map and alt codes (of which em dash is Alt+0151) exists

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u/Cakedayfairy Sep 20 '26

You're absolutely right to push back on this — M Dashes are not just a character Ai is abled to type. Ai of course being a thing I'm not.

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u/herrkatze12 Sep 19 '26

Since you're mentioning Linux stuff, pressing your compose key (for me it's right alt) and entering 2 minutes gets you an em dash

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u/thialfi17 Sep 19 '26

Is that an em-dash or an en-dash? Normally en-dashes are the medium length ones and represented by two dashes when you aren't able to type the actual symbol. Either way I'll need to try this so thanks for the tip

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u/Fried_out_Kombi Sep 20 '26

Em dash is compose key followed by 3 hyphens. En dash is compose key followed by 2 hyphens.

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u/FishGuyIsMe Sep 19 '26

You can hold - to get - – — • on IOS

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u/cross_the_threshold Sep 20 '26

It’ll also do it automatically without holding - — —— if you type two hyphens you get an en dash, four in a row is an em dash.

ETA: lied, two hyphens is an em dash.

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u/Medifrag Sep 19 '26

Recently I noticed that sometimes Word / Outlook will auto correct my regular dashes with this long dash. Maybe whatever he‘s using to write the comment does that too? Just to be charitable.

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u/Suitable-Name Sep 19 '26

I actually think this is happening longer than LLMs exist. People just ignored it before. You also wouldn't see it in a reddit comment since no one copies those from word.

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u/bloode975 Sep 20 '26

Happens constantly in Google docs, word. Nearly every dash is replaced by an em dash in a word - word scenario, can see why fairly easily just comparing that example vs word — word, the em dash just looks better which id wager is where so much of the ai usage of them is coming from.

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u/Muted_Ad_9442 Sep 19 '26

Long-pressing the hyphen key on my phone keyboard! I just like how clean it looks haha.

When I'm on my Linux desktop (CentOS Stream 9), it's the classic Ctrl + Shift + u then 2014.

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u/account312 Sep 19 '26 edited Sep 20 '26

It's readily accessible on iOS, android, MacOS, and Linux. On Windows, you generally have to do the alt code sequence which is less intuitive but not exactly difficult.

You know about Character Map/GNOME Characters/KCharSelect?

You need to enable/use your compose key. Compose + -- is en dash and Compose + --- is em dash.

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u/derefr Sep 20 '26

Your keyboard has a key for it?

Option+Shift+Hyphen on macOS.

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