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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 59 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Watched someone copy an entire file of Python code, paste it into an LLM, ask the thing to 'remove all whitespace', copy paste it back, and then be flabbergasted that there's even more whitespace than before.

I'm thankful it was over a video call and not in person.

[–] Lightfire228@pawb.social 64 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But.... Python

Python has....

Python has whitespace semantics

You can't just-

*sigh* we're doomed

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is one of those rare occasions where the AI was apparently smarter than the person asking the question. It was smart enough not to remove the white space

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

I feel that's not a very rare occasion at all.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I'm sorry I made you feel those feelings, truly, but yes, we're boned ☠️

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Then ask it to remove parenthesis from your C code.

[–] msage@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

lol that’s even better. I meant to say curly braces.