🦿 Lucian Marin I wish YouTube or SoundCloud use machine learning to actually recommend similar sounding tracks. Recommendations are still based on what people liked.
Mark Dain YouTube does use machine learning / some form of AI, although it prefers maximum viewing time over quality so is choaking channels like Veritasium, and promoting stuff that's basically endless streams of clickbait. Wouldn't surprise me if it did a shitty job with music too. One YouTuber I watch has opened a vid.me account due to, I think, getting demonetized automatically by the AI, and I hope more follow. YouTube really sucks these days.
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🦿 Lucian Marin Apple should release an ARM-based MacBook with Lightning connector. I would love to charge all my devices with a single cable. I understand that the USB-C charger for 15-inch MacBook Pro can't charge the 13-inch MacBook Pro or the 12-inch MacBook. But this won't be an issue if they use Lightning. Anyway, the future of USB-C is the 60GHz wireless standard. Essential Phone uses it to connect peripherals.
Mark Dain Wouldn't a USB-C iPhone make more sense? Unify every Apple product with 1 cable. It seems a bit odd they're still releasing Lightning peripherals like the Magic Mouse 2
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Nkrs It really starts to pay off once you take advantage of the libraries and methods. I'm keeping my thesis in sync with the source code of the accompanying program because the .tex file is linked directly to the source file. It takes only a couple of seconds to rebuild the PDF file, mostly because it is doing syntax highlighting for an 800 line program.
Mark Dain Huh that's interesting - can you explain? Do you embed source code in the document with syntax highlighting? That sounds pretty cool. I'd like to be able to include graphs, maybe as an image from gnuplot but I know you can do some shapes like chemical structures directly in LaTeX. It's a really awesome system!
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John Olinda I actually like it less now than I used to. There are so many options, features, and knobs that it's overwhelming when all you want is a simple Git repo. I like that it's a little further off the beaten path, but for my current projects it's just too complex.
Mark Dain I'd say it's reaching feature parity with GitHub, e.g. they recently added GPG key verification, although it doesn't quite work as well as on GitHub. This is something most can ignore, so all the new features are great for those who use more obscure Git features like GPG signing.
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Mark Dain So I checked out GitLab the other day, the UI isn't a complete disaster anymore so I might give it another go. I'll probably setup GitHub to mirror the repos, but I just want to host my stuff elsewhere, ideally on a platform I can self host if need be.
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John Olinda I actually like it less now than I used to. There are so many options, features, and knobs that it's overwhelming when all you want is a simple Git repo. I like that it's a little further off the beaten path, but for my current projects it's just too complex.
👽 Paul Webb I use GitLab to host all my stuff. My GitHub account is just for keeping track of repos I favorite. I decided to do this about a year ago or so and since then, GitHub's made plans better but MEH. I love having ownership over my repos (and my server is automatically backed up).
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Mark Dain I'm really starting to like LaTeX since I started playing with it last weekend.
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Eric I used it to produce reports towards the end of this past academic year, great stuff if a little verbose at time (coming from Markdown).
Nkrs It really starts to pay off once you take advantage of the libraries and methods. I'm keeping my thesis in sync with the source code of the accompanying program because the .tex file is linked directly to the source file. It takes only a couple of seconds to rebuild the PDF file, mostly because it is doing syntax highlighting for an 800 line program.
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🦿 Lucian Marin My plan is to switch to Android and to make Service Workers and push notifications work with Chrome. The idea is to be as good as Twitter Lite (mobile.twitter.com) and to trigger Add to Home Screen banner in Chrome (addyosmani.com/blo...).
Mark Dain I'd love Sublevel notifications on my computer! Phone can come later ... when I switch to Android too (will have to wait a year for my iPhone 7 to drop off my contract)
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John Olinda Is the ability to map it to Escape built right into 10.12? I've remapped it to Command in 10.11, but mapping it to Escape used to require an external tool.
Mark Dain I see Escape on the drop down as an option. I'm using the latest macOS, so it may have been added recently. Possibly to address the lack of a physical Escape key on recent MacBook Pros (TouchBar models)
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Mark Dain macOS tip I just found out about: you can in System Preferences > Keyboard > Modified Keys... change caps lock, among others, to do other actions like escape. You can also disable it. I'd reccomend Caps Lock either be disabled (just use shift) or mapped to Escape for Vim or Control for easier terminal use.
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🦿 Lucian Marin I mapped Cap Lock to Control because "ctrl" key is very tiny on the international keyboard.
John Olinda Is the ability to map it to Escape built right into 10.12? I've remapped it to Command in 10.11, but mapping it to Escape used to require an external tool.
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Eric Really? The Edge Engine in IE is just as garbage as the others.
Mark Dain Edge isn't the same as IE, I've always found it great to develop for and to use. The engine is far better at HTML 5 than it used to be.
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Eric I forgot how much of an arse developing for IE was. How could I forget?
Mark Dain Your brain garbage collected it away as it assumed you'd never do development for IE again. Other than enterprise, who still uses IE? Edge doesn't count as it's like developing for any recent evergreen browser
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🦿 Lucian Marin The new Skype for Mac is just another Electron app. OK, I guess it's time to find something else to use.
Mark Dain Skype is horrible, I'm glad it's finally starting to die. I literally only use it for interviews now that insist on Skype.
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Eric What about Skype For Business? On Windows that program is hugely more pleasant to use and better built than the awful main version.
Mark Dain Wow, so businesses get to have less crappy VoIP but home/non-business don't?
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😀 Tom Quite a few spam accounts joined in the last 24 hours.
Mark Dain No escort services though, maybe they gave up on the Sublevel
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🦿 Lucian Marin You should definetly follow people that come back after 2 years. welcome back!
Mark Dain 34 weeks ago for me - over half a year! Welcome back and hopefully other sublevellers that are just taking a break and haven't stopped using the site
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Martijn This comment though ... github.com/php/php...
Mark Dain Hahaha well I'm glad they're preserving backwards compatibility! You can't really fix a bug in mt_rand as it's not truly random so there's a chance someone will depend on the output - of a function called rand - being predictable, amazingly. sigh. Just use random_int on 7+ and paragonie/random_compat on 5.x if you want quality random numbers (you probably want that)
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