[mike_hearn]

Have the same problem but with bullet points, which I learned to type years ago and have used on HN for a long time:

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(option-8 on a Mac US keyboard layout). Now it looks like something only an LLM would do.

[mghackerlady]

Hell I've been accused simply for using markdown. Granted, excessive formatting in markdown (especially when I'm telling a bad faith wikipedia contributor to cut it out since wikipedia doesn't even use markdown) is one of the biggest suspects for me but theres a difference between italicising something for emphasis and and *bolding* every statement *to an excessive degree*

[ale42]

For those who are interested, that one is Alt-7 (numeric keypad) on Windows. This works because in the "OEM" codepage (e.g. 437), char 7 corresponds to a symbol that is mapped into Unicode to • (← I just typed this using Alt-7, and the arrow using Alt-27). In a similar way I type the infamous ones—the ones that give you away as an LLM even if you aren't one. It's Alt-0151, this time with no OEM codepage conversion because of the zero in front (anyway that codepage had no em-dashes, the closest one would be Alt-196, which is ─, i.e. a line drawing character).

[dylan604]

I love using ° with is the opt-shift-8 when posting temps to indicate I'm on a real keyboard and not some device. Plus, it's just faster than typing degrees

[aardvark179]

iPhone—hold down 0 and ° should be on the pop up.

[rzzzt]

℃ and ℉ to the rescue! https://graphemica.com/%E2%84%83

[abustamam]

My phone has the degree sign ° but it requires me to click on numerical input then additional symbols to access, so I just shorthand it to deg.