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Comment by tptacek

9 hours ago

Simple example from this piece: I scrubbed 7 instances of the word “just” from it. Obviously, Emacs can do that on their own, but you have to know to look for that word, and every other one.

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tptacek

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grey-area  3 hours ago

You are erasing yourself in doing this, not improving your writing.

If you want to improve your writing, read more.

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