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I had my Tools disk and my MSDOS gaming boot disk, tweaked and tuned to perfection.

Those were the best of times.

Little me didn't know that was the gateway drug to coding.


"Only OS" is the caveat here.

Yeah, I’m not sure who else would be raging about dolphin dropping support. Not talking about people who keep an extra w7 box around for legacy software which Dolphin is not.

Exactly but writing to serve his audience

Is this European Union related?

You may be in the wrong place

In a previous life, I would have loved this.


Met Jason Scott.

Absolutely uniquely good person.


The last of us


My wife is a journalist and has always loved them.

Now she's been accused of using AI for her pieces.

Oh well.


> Now she's been accused of using AI for her pieces.

Read the observation that AI was (presumably) trained on the 'best' (or at least 'quality') writing, and so if good writers tended to use em-dashes, it should not be surprising that AI generates text with it.

But, if one's personal style included using them, you should continue to do so because why should you dial down your own voice just because someone else may be mimicking it?


em-dashes help flow ideas better than other means. For whatever reason, it's easier to process in my brain a comment with an em-dash rather than trying to split the idea into separate succinct sentences.

You can do small succinct sentences, but style-wise it sucks for longer passages.


Thank you for such a great product


Glad you liked it. I still have fond memories of working on it.


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