Ray Toal

I do not have a self-referential twitter profile

[Ray Toal @rtoal]

@_ohmjs https://t.co/2kRsQl8FCR is giving a cloudflare error Invalid SSL certificate Error code 526

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

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First Languages AI Reality Initiative

https://t.co/YzjAzNjzT4

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Good year for pomegranates

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

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@MammothMountain still looking great for skiing in mid-July

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#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 (https://t.co/81jVh1MF9D)

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@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? :)

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Wow https://t.co/maLQCyJ0Qx

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@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):

[Troy Hunt @troyhunt]

Nice one Roy 👿 #PasswordPurgatory https://t.co/KLLugOaa6Z

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@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

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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

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

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[madison @dearmadisonblue]

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

[Manuel Simoni @msimoni]

"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" https://t.co/zRfJUv4OQS

[Ray Toal @rtoal]

@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 :)

[Ray Toal @rtoal]

#ChatGPT does #JavaScript very well

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@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