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Some folks actually were taught to use em-dashes as part of their normal writing, especially if you've taken a technical writing course.

I dislike that people think you're an AI if you're using proper typography. :(





Just writing multiple paragraphs with compound-complex sentences makes people think you're an AI. :(

Given "AI" is over 50% of all content now, even if you flip a coin chances are pretty good some article contains slop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrTrOCQZoQE

The Ubuntu repositories curate both the legacy and more modern logisim fork:

sudo apt-get install logisim

sudo snap install logisim-evolution

Microcap 12 is also still available from the archive.org web cache, was made free, and runs in Wine64 just fine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230214034946/http://www.spectr...

Microcap will handle both Analog and Digital simulations.

KiCad now also supports Spice, and reports it should import the free LTSpice libraries. I have yet to find a use case for the kicad sim option... so YMMV.

https://www.kicad.org/discover/spice/

Best of luck, =3


It might be "proper" but I never liked it.

Many proper uses of the em-dash put two words visually together—despite being parts of two distinct units separated by the em-dash.

I much prefer using a normal dash with a space on each side - like this.


Totally agree with this view. Why use an extra character when we already have a dash - just to add a pixel or two on either side. How an em-dash visually connects two words is not pleasant either, I prefer to have a space between them. For writing English, the ASCII character set is plenty.

Most AI tells are like this. I have been taught in marketing training to list things in pairs of three, because that's punchy, sufficiently succinct and very memorable. Now this is strongly associated with AI

After all AI didn't pick up these habits out of nowhere - all the tells are good writing advice and professional typography, but used with a frequency you would only see in highly polished texts like marketing copy




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