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

You should have pressed a thumbs up to confuse it

[–] vogi@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

thought the same thing afterwards :( too late now.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 105 points 3 days ago (2 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 3 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 3 days 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 3 days ago

lol damn had it wrong all this time.

[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 53 points 3 days 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 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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 3 days ago

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

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

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

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 9 points 3 days ago

Whenever you compile them, they play the Imperial March

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It is by contrast of non imperial variables.

[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago

Experial variables, they’re called.

[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 48 points 3 days ago (1 children)

“Copilot is for entertainment purposes only”

[–] entwine@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

AI is the most successful media franchise in human history

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 days ago

At -1b $ profit?

[–] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago

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

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 54 points 4 days ago
[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 45 points 4 days ago (1 children)

so 1b is 1 butt or approximately 481l.

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

that puts things in context

[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

The butt is an obsolete English measure

Not for long

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 20 points 3 days ago

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

[–] raman_klogius@ani.social 29 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] elvith@feddit.org 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

making shit up sparkle ✨

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)
[–] trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 3 days ago

A bucket of bytes. 🙃

[–] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yeah? Perfectly normal unit.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 24 points 3 days ago

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

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 12 points 3 days 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 3 days ago

Those are types, not units

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

Numbat has them

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 days ago

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

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

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

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago

In American units, 1 foot.

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