boarsofcanada

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by boarsofcanada 2mo ago
https://www.aarp.org/personal-technology/passkeys-future/
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by boarsofcanada 2mo ago
I’m absolutely floored by some of what I am reading here. Six months before passkeys rolled out there were numerous succinct consumer-friendly write-ups. I sent at least one of these to several non-technical people I knew and they had no pr
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by boarsofcanada 2mo ago
Perhaps you’re referring to one of Utpal Banerjee’s books? https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/utpal-banerjee/1265627/?srslti... I owned a few of them along with Michael Wolfe’s book, Allen & Kennedy, etc when
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by boarsofcanada 3mo ago
Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48526360
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by boarsofcanada 3mo ago
For just the two daily BART trips that I do within SF, it would be $1200+/mo for Waymo/Uber/Lyft. So from that perspective perhaps the extra $30/mo for the small convenience of getting priority and being able to cancel a
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by boarsofcanada 3mo ago
$30/mo is slightly mind boggling for this. I’ve enjoyed the ~70 or so Waymo rides I have taken but to me Waymo, Uber, and Lyft are methods of last resort. My feet, BART, and SFMuni are my primary methods of transportation and for $104&
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by boarsofcanada 3mo ago
Companies are hitting their budgeted limits for AI tokens less than half way through the year and reporting that they aren’t seeing enough benefit to substantially increase that budget, and so they are scaling back use and asking people to
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by boarsofcanada 3mo ago
And yet they are not profitable on an ongoing basis, and aren’t even claiming to be. The supply is currently constrained because 50+% of data center plans were cancelled as a result of the impossibility of the buildouts happening in a timel
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by boarsofcanada 3mo ago
I thought OpenEvidence was actually getting a large amount of traction with doctors.
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The Many Ways to Build a Black Hole(nautil.us)
2 points by boarsofcanada 4mo ago|0 comments
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by boarsofcanada 4mo ago
Jack DeJohnette died in October.
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by boarsofcanada 4mo ago
+1 on low fiber diet 5-7 days before. And although I didn’t try the diaper rash cream, Balneol was definitely a life saver.
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by boarsofcanada 4mo ago
Definitely on sax. On bass we still have Ron Carter, age 89, still touring.
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Sonny Rollins, jazz saxophonist, has died(rollingstone.com)
131 points by boarsofcanada 4mo ago|22 comments
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by boarsofcanada 4mo ago
As someone who has both TE and monome gear along with Elektron, Moog, and a decent variety of other gear, I still don’t understand the hate toward TE and it reminds me very much of the Apple haters who bash the company no matter what they s
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by boarsofcanada 5mo ago
If you compare the trajectories, I think it’s safe to say software has been a dumpster fire under Craig compared to what’s been accomplished on the hardware side. The fact that Craig has been the face of WWDC for many years made many people
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by boarsofcanada 5mo ago
Apple Silicon wasn’t under his purview, that would be Johny Srouji. Not saying that Ternus wouldn’t have been involved in or part of the decision making process in moving the Mac to Apple-designed silicon, but I haven’t seen any indication
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by boarsofcanada 5mo ago
First new music release after a 13 year absence.
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Tape 05 – Boards of Canada [video](youtube.com)
4 points by boarsofcanada 5mo ago|2 comments
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by boarsofcanada 7mo ago
Even more specifically how coal makes no economic sense even independent of environmental concerns.
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by boarsofcanada 8mo ago
I wrote RPG II code in the 80s and helped the company I was working part-time for transition to another one of these S/36 emulation environments on the PC in the 90s. The software we used was made by the very generically named Californ
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by boarsofcanada 8mo ago
The city does go after the people illegally tagging properties: https://sfstandard.com/2024/10/17/san-francisco-prolific-gra... https://sfdistrictattorney.org/prolific-tagger-charged-with-...
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by boarsofcanada 8mo ago
Dietary fiber is a great way to reduce colorectal cancer risk: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266615432...
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by boarsofcanada 8mo ago
Someone blaring their choice of music in a public space at 90 dB is a “cultural touchstone”? I don’t drive, I take public transit daily, and am old enough to remember when you would never experience anything like this (even in the heyday of
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by boarsofcanada 8mo ago
Yeah I am not sure where I read the article recently, but there was a nice write-up about how all politics everywhere is turning into tribalism with little or no actual consideration for policy beyond ideology. Not that it’s necessarily as
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by boarsofcanada 8mo ago
I don’t know how ubiquitous it is in my circles, but I have noticed a lot of folks in their 20s and 30s tell me they only buy paper books, never Kindle. I started buying only the latter years ago because of the convenience and lack of a nee
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by boarsofcanada 8mo ago
To this point, there have been at least a few stories of elderly people being beaten on San Francisco public transit for politely asking people to turn their music down.
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by boarsofcanada 9mo ago
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel. Highly recommended no matter what your age. Just a few chapters into The Art of Spending Money by the same author. So far very good as well. Both cover how personal finance is, first and foremost, p
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'Call of Duty' co-creator killed in fiery Ferrari crash caught on video(sfchronicle.com)
15 points by boarsofcanada 9mo ago|2 comments
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by boarsofcanada 9mo ago
I meant to make it to the lecture this year but some personal drama got in the way. Looking forward to once again trying to plan on being there for the 2026 version!

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