Chris Foster
@chrisfosterelli
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CTO @twostoryrobot. I love to write software and race triathlons.
Victoria, Canada
Joined July 2012
New blog post: Why Twitter can't agree on a simple math equation
fosterelli.co
What is 6 / 2(1 + 2)? Thousands of twitter users can't seem to agree -- let's dig into why and what the real answer is.
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In a world where corporations milk IPs for every cent it's a privilege that we get three dexter spinoffs and all of them are actually so good.
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So fun to race the Vancouver T100 today!! Finished in 3:58:52 and in the top 25 overall which I'm pretty happy with 😁
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Manitoba declares a provincewide state of emergency on Wednesday as wildfires continue to threaten communities across the province. Premier Wab Kinew says it comes as roughly 17,000 people are now under evacuation order.
cbc.ca
Manitoba has declared a provincewide state of emergency as wildfires continue to threaten communities across the province.
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There's a former Backblaze engineer on reddit who seems to spend a lot of his retirement answering questions on r/backblaze in exquisite technical detail. This guy really loves Backblaze. I'm going to buy a license I think.
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Defunding the CVE program would be a colossal detriment to the tech industry
csoonline.com
After DHS did not renew its funding contract for reasons unspecified, MITRE’s 25-year-old Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program was slated for an abrupt shutdown on April 16, which would...
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It seems France has finally rescinded the physical exam certification requirement and replaced it with a questionnaire asking a bunch of ironman athletes if they have ever experienced any "discomfort during exercise" 😂
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Picked up the Beelink S12 Pro for some home lab stuff 🙂 Nowadays for $220CAD you can get four cores, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD that all idles under 10 watts and is about the size of a cellphone. Crazy!
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My first career was as a professional cyclist. And one major part of being a competitive athlete is resilience. Learning how to overcome injury and setbacks. I’d race 10-15 times per year, and if I was lucky, I’d win a handful. In essence, I lost far more than I won. But
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Can't wait to see Linus rip someone apart on some mailing list for vibe coding a kernel plugin
What is it about really really smart people that make them completely oblivious to how incredible AI is?
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The Material Theme has just been removed from GitHub and VS Code due to shipping malware
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Did we just reinvent fax machines?
Today I was sent the following cool demo: Two AI agents on a phone call realize they’re both AI and switch to a superior audio signal ggwave
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When you look at LT1 as a percentage of VO2max, there's a really cool dynamic where very unfit people have a "high" LT1 because their ceiling (absolute VO2max) is very low, while very fit people have a high LT1 because their training has expanded their range of "easy" paces
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Recently finished watching Barry. Excellent all the way to the end. Peak cinema.
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This is a really interesting analogy I've not seen before about why general AI might not do what we want. From Cold Takes https://t.co/PldzRi6mLL
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This movie is beautiful and definitely worth a watch
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The Globe & Mail speaks the inconvenient truth that politicians won't: homes can't both be good investments and affordable. "Making homes more affordable, for instance, means bringing down the prices of existing homes – something homeowners who are sitting on big capital gains
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The @globeandmail posted this chart, and it has been living rent free in my head ever since
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