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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 43 points 1 week 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 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] 404@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

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

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

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

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago

Whenever you compile them, they play the Imperial March

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It is by contrast of non imperial variables.

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

Experial variables, they’re called.