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Are you tired of wrong llm summaries yet? Well too bad cause I just came across my first one in the wild as I have that feature normally turned off.

I am currently learning C and I am not sure the summary feature is doing me any favors.

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[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago (3 children)

In case you don't know, C is the successor to B (which used imperial variables). There was a planned successor to C called D, which would use all unitless quantities, like they do in Fermi approximations, but it turns out those aren't very good. That's why we have C++ (which supports metric and imperial) instead.

[–] 404@lemmy.zip 5 points 18 hours ago

What? Really? I though that's what the strong C metric/imperial (strcmp) function was for

[–] Vittelius@feddit.org 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 25 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

That's something else stealing the name. As you can see, the wikipedia page doesn't even mention support for unitless metrics as variable types.

[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

What do you mean by "imperial" variables I've never heard of this

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 8 points 19 hours ago

Whenever you compile them, they play the Imperial March

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 8 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

It is by contrast of non imperial variables.

[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 4 points 19 hours ago

Experial variables, they’re called.

[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“Copilot is for entertainment purposes only”

[–] entwine@programming.dev 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

AI is the most successful media franchise in human history

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 points 6 hours ago

At -1b $ profit?

[–] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

0x1 is a hug and a kiss for 1, the loneliest number

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 109 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The other day when asking about the sex ratio of chickens, it told me that fertilized eggs turn into male chickens while unfertilized eggs become female chickens.

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago

Clearly LLMs are the future, poised to replaced all the jobs, except the jobs of CEOs.

[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Weirdly and oppositely this is actually how bees reproduce. Fertilized eggs become female, unfertilized become male

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

Parthenogenesis only makes sense if the unfertilized offspring is male. Because that way one female can create males to fertilize her to make females.

[–] nixfreak@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

lol damn had it wrong all this time.

I'd love to write the actual explanation here, but it's a long one.

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago

I was asked to get the AI to create documentation for an application. I may just do that for the ha-Ha's.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 55 points 1 day ago
[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)
[–] trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 day ago

A bucket of bytes. 🙃

[–] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah? Perfectly normal unit.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Idk it just doesn't seem to fit in nicely with char, int, float, and double.

[–] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago

I hate having a pint overflow error. It goes everywhere, and then you have no pint.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 13 points 1 day ago

Well you need something for your floats to float in, don't you? And thats measured in litres of course

[–] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago

Those are types, not units

[–] cockmushroom@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Numbat has them

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

so 1b is 1 butt or approximately 481l.

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"The butt is an obsolete English measure of liquid volume equalling two hogsheads"

that puts things in context

[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 hours ago

The butt is an obsolete English measure

Not for long

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago
[–] SunshineJogger@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

If I had at least a centimeter of time I could explain. Alas, I have only three kilos.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

In American units, 1 foot.

Or perhaps I misremembered, maybe it was just 1 toe?

[–] raman_klogius@ani.social 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Magic = making shit up
AI = magic sparkle ✨
Therefore AI = making shit up ✨

[–] elvith@feddit.org 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Magic = making shit up
AI = magic sparkle ✨
Therefore
AI = making shit sparkle up ✨

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

making shit up sparkle ✨