Derek Watson

If you recognise this, take care of your knees

a few weeks ago someone called work without AI “tradwork” and i can’t stop thinking about it

Steve’s Music Store is closing today after being an institution in the Toronto music scene for 49 years on Queen West. It’s where I bought my first guitar when I was 15 years old. I remember going in there as a kid, excited by all the musicians and instruments around me, and thinking their talented staff were simply the coolest people in the world. RIP Steve’s, and thank you.

We’re putting nearly $200M toward critical infrastructure upgrades across Toronto, including public transit — improving the TTC for faster, more reliable commutes.

When you stream Spotify to Bluetooth speakers or headphones, the audio comes over the network lossily compressed with Vorbis or AAC codecs, is then decoded on your device to 48 Khz raw samples, then the Bluetooth stack lossily re-compresses it with SBC or AAC codecs before sending it over the airwaves to the speakers. I don’t have “golden ears” to pick apart audio quality like I can with, say, missing gamma correction on texture filtering, but that still hurts my system optimization soul. It is likely over-optimization, but It would be cleaner if there were a way to send bluetooth-ready, compressed audio directly.

I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took. Thank you for getting us to this point.

Bryan Johnson reveals a 15-second call method that strengthened his relationships with friends “I appreciate this model of friendship so much because before I was stuck in the idea of ‘do you want to hang out?’ where it becomes a big deal and you spend a lot of hours together. Versus just calling and saying, ‘What’s up, how are you doing?’ You can answer because you know I’m not going to be on the phone for 20 minutes” “I became friends with this person who is very powerful and rich. He would call me and say something like, ‘Brian,’ make a quick statement, I’d respond, and then he’d say, ‘Alright man, I love you, see you.’ And that was amazing. It was so clean and it felt really good. We did that for a couple of months and built this amazing friendship”

French acrobat Bastien Dausse created a device that simulates lunar gravity.