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Feels approachable the whole way through.",{"value":56,"source":46,"evidence":57},"Developers and learners new to C.",[58,59],{"id":52,"by":53,"text":54},{"id":60,"by":10,"text":61},"45480412","I'm planning to create a 10-page cheatsheet for fast learners, and I'd like to shorten the book to around 150–200 pages.",{"value":63,"source":64,"evidence":65},"Free, CC-BY-SA licensed.","maker",[66,69],{"id":67,"by":10,"text":68},"45480384","I've been preparing these notes for 20 years, and now it's finally time to put them online. Please judge them by their content, not by whether they were \"LLM-assisted\" or not.…",{"id":49,"by":10,"text":50},{"value":71,"source":64,"evidence":72},"Sharing notes built up over 20 years and getting feedback on C interest.",[73,74],{"id":67,"by":10,"text":68},{"id":49,"by":10,"text":50},[],"open_source","launched","solo",{"praise":80,"objections":93,"requests":129,"questions":140,"alternatives":153},[81,86],{"value":82,"source":83,"evidence":84},"Clear, approachable introduction to C.","commenter",[85],{"id":52,"by":53,"text":54},{"value":87,"source":83,"evidence":88},"Good to see C covered.",[89],{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},"45478896","indianmouse","Nice effort. Good to see 'C'!",[94,108,115,123],{"value":95,"source":83,"evidence":96},"Content appears LLM-generated slop.",[97,101,105],{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"45479268","user982","Nobody finds it at all questionable that this submitter has \"authored\" around a dozen such books in 30 days?",{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},"45479308","teiferer","I wonder if those LICENSE files in such repositories even mean anything in the world of LLM created stuff\u002Fslop\u002Fcrap. There is no obvious authorship attached to this \"Little book\"…",{"id":106,"by":103,"text":107},"45479329","And many of them have the same \"citation\" to the math one by a Duc-Tam Nguyen, which they then didn't bother to adjust the title of. I'd vote for flagging this submission. It's…",{"value":109,"source":83,"evidence":110},"Code examples contain bugs, such as fgetc using char and a pointer-to-pointer syntax error.",[111],{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"45478841","omoikane","There is a bug in this example: ``` char ch; while ((ch = fgetc(in)) != EOF) { fputc(ch, out); } ```…",{"value":116,"source":83,"evidence":117},"Maker has published many similar books in a short time.",[118,119],{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"45479293","ForceBru","Yeah, 15 different \"Little books of...\" here: https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Forgs\u002Flittle-book-of\u002Frepositories. Seems LLM-assisted. This post about neural networks is from the \"Math\" book:…",{"value":124,"source":83,"evidence":125},"Lack of verifiable author credentials.",[126],{"id":127,"by":103,"text":128},"45482326","How much is CC-BY-SA worth if nobody knows how much of the content fell out of an LLM? > I've been preparing these notes for 20 years, and now it's finally time to put them…",[130,136],{"value":131,"source":64,"evidence":132},"Open GitHub issues for the bugs found.",[133],{"id":134,"by":10,"text":135},"45481900","My next step is to extract all the code into the \"src\u002F\" folder and set up proper CI\u002FCD to test everything. Could you help create some GitHub issues? I will fix them in my free…",{"value":137,"source":64,"evidence":138},"Shorten the book to 150-200 pages.",[139],{"id":60,"by":10,"text":61},[141,146],{"value":142,"source":83,"evidence":143},"Is the content LLM-generated, and how much?",[144,145],{"id":127,"by":103,"text":128},{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},{"value":147,"source":83,"evidence":148},"Why was the submission flagged?",[149],{"id":150,"by":151,"text":152},"45481698","jmclnx","I do not get this ? Why is this flagged ? 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