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< old macselfhood had much smarm, me I me I low

I've seen you write intricate poetry, as well as held long coherent conversations with you, where you described coding as one of your skills.

So I have to ask: this is just auto generated GPT-3 text that you're testing on us, right?

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~inquiry wrote (thread):

Nopers. We're talking super old school. When I want something formatted like that, I typically type some text into a vim session, then leverage the unix/linux "fmt" command a la:

:%!fmt -60

and then try the same with different numeric values until the alignment is at least close to appealing, then tinker with synonyms (of different length, of course) until I'm liking how it looks in a fixed-width font.

(':%!' being vim-speak for "pass all lines of vim buffer content to the stdin of a program)