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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 52 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.

[–] Vittelius@feddit.org 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] 404@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

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

[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 8 points 1 day ago

Whenever you compile them, they play the Imperial March

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

It is by contrast of non imperial variables.

[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Experial variables, they’re called.

[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“Copilot is for entertainment purposes only”

[–] entwine@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

AI is the most successful media franchise in human history

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 day ago

At -1b $ profit?

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 110 points 2 days 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.

[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 20 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.

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

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

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

lol damn had it wrong all this time.

[–] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

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

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

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 55 points 2 days ago
[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 48 points 2 days 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 1 day ago

The butt is an obsolete English measure

Not for long

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)
[–] trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 days ago

A bucket of bytes. 🙃

[–] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah? Perfectly normal unit.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days ago

Those are types, not units

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

Numbat has them

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 9 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.

[–] raman_klogius@ani.social 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] elvith@feddit.org 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

making shit up sparkle ✨

[–] 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?