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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by vogi@piefed.social to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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 55 points 1 week ago

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 15 points 1 week ago
[-] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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 week ago

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

[-] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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

[-] fonix232@fedia.io 9 points 1 week ago

Whenever you compile them, they play the Imperial March

[-] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It is by contrast of non imperial variables.

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

Experial variables, they’re called.

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