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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 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You should have pressed a thumbs up to confuse it

[–] vogi@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago

thought the same thing afterwards :( too late now.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 87 points 1 week 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 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week 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 11 points 1 week ago

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

[–] nixfreak@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

lol damn had it wrong all this time.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 47 points 1 week ago
[–] 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.

[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“Copilot is for entertainment purposes only”

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

AI is the most successful media franchise in human history

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 week ago

At -1b $ profit?

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

so 1b is 1 butt or approximately 481l.

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 21 points 1 week 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 week ago

The butt is an obsolete English measure

Not for long

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

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

[–] raman_klogius@ani.social 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

[–] elvith@feddit.org 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

making shit up sparkle ✨

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
[–] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah? Perfectly normal unit.

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

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

[–] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago

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

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 11 points 1 week 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 3 points 1 week ago

Those are types, not units

[–] cockmushroom@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Numbat has them

[–] trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 week ago

A bucket of bytes. 🙃

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 18 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week 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 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] SunshineJogger@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

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

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago
[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

In American units, 1 foot.

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