Ray Toal

@_ohmjs ohmjs.org is giving a cloudflare error Invalid SSL certificate Error code 526

@chesscom randomly gives me 400 puzzle points on selected days of the week then takes them all away. Wonder what is going on?

First Languages AI Reality Initiative mila.quebec/en/project/fla…

Good year for pomegranates

Not bad for July 18! @MammothMountain in California is having an amazing winter season. Still skiing here in the Northern Hemisphere :)

@MammothMountain still looking great for skiing in mid-July

#Java hello world programs are indeed getting much shorter with unnamed classes and instance main methods in preview, but even Java 17 can't compete with the verbosity of PEARL (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEARL_(pr…)

@TimLeach635 The underscores are definitely needed for macOS x86-64. I'm pretty sure you don't need them for Linux. Not sure about Windows. Sorry it did not work for you, it did for me, but yeah how portable do we expect these things to be? :)

@rtoal Thanks so much for the reply! I actually tried this twice, once in WSL2 on Windows and once on a Linux box, both getting the same error! I think I've tracked it down to the standard C library included in these distros being compiled in a way that's incompatible here

hi @rtoal - weird question, but on your gnu as examples page (cs.lmu.edu/~ray/notes/gas…) I can't get the second one, "Working with the C Library", to work! does there need to be an extra step to link it to the C library? error stacktrace in reply

Wow justine.lol/lambda/

@TimLeach635 Since it says X86 and PIE in the error message I'm guessing you have an Intel Mac. That uses underscores and does not support absolute addressing. You need this (sorry for screenshotting):

googling tells me this might be because my machine is 64-bit (I'm also doing this in WSL, which could be adding all sorts of weirdness!)

Nice one Roy 👿 #PasswordPurgatory passwordpurgatory.com/get-hell?kvKey…

@cristalopes Clearly there is a huge number of lash and brow technicians that moonlight as Google VPs. They may not talk about their side jobs much, but they can't hide their employment from the spiders that populate the algorithm's training set

Had to check something on Glassdoor, and... you gotta wonder what on earth the algorithms are doing 🤣

Hello #PLT Twitter! I read the following snippet from a @rasuschma's **awesome** "Tackling TypeScript." But I'm not sure "many" is correct here. Outside of Java and C#, for which other languages with static types is this true? Would love to know! TIA

@jolson_codes Always a great day when a new jolson article drops!

Hi everybody <3 My work has had me thinking nonstop about LLMs, OpenAI, ChatGPT, and what this new era of generative AI means for teachers. I might unravel this into a thread later, but for now, here's a link to my first draft ideas: @jolson_codes/5-lesson-plan-ideas-that-use-chatgpt-76d2fb18200e" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@jolson_codes/…

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yeah i agree with this! i've seen people say that programming languages don't matter anymore due to generative models, but i'd say programming languages matter *more* since generative models allow you to choose them purely on their formal properties rather than social factors

"EMACS could not have been reached by a process of careful design, because such processes arrive only at goals which are visible at the outset ... Neither I nor anyone else visualized an extensible editor until I had made one" gnu.org/software/emacs…

@anti_putin_bot Totally. I think one reason it is good at JavaScript async and higher order functions is that every JS beginner has all the same problems when they first encounter these topics and immediately go to StackOverflow. I think there are hundreds of SO answers on this very topic :)

#ChatGPT does #JavaScript very well

@gtopeebottle @buffsoldier_96 Guessing the former. Typical tankie take. They shitpost (un?)intentionally. Never gonna make sense. What can you even say? "No comment" is the best caption

@buffsoldier_96 Depending on who is posting this, it could mean that "democracy is bad, because white people" or "white people are the superior race because democracy is good". I'm really not sure if this isn't some sort of political shitpost.

So Japan, India & Mongolia are "whiter" than Russia & Belarus because their systems are more democratic & their govts aren't "official enemies" of the US. Make it make sense.