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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

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  Tinybeans

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  Tinybeans (an app I use to share photos of kids) tweaked its upload UI to remove segmenting photos by date - which was how I used it all the time

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Statistician at Carnegie Mellon; writes on complex systems, machine learning and inference, and has kept a books-read notebook since 2000 that is now thousands of entries long.

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  Go Down Hard

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  Mind candy: dueling psycho-killers go on a date; mayhem ensues.

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AI researcher at OpenAI; built the poker systems Libratus and Pluribus and the Diplomacy agent Cicero, and works on reasoning models.

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  Extra thinking time cannot help with factual recall: a model that does not know a date will not know it after a week either.

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  if you ask a person when was Abraham Lincoln born and they don't know the date. They could sit there, they could think about it for a week, if they if they don't have access to Wikipedia or something, they're not going to be able to do better answering that question if they thought about it for a week compared to 5 seconds. Same with the model.

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Software architect and futurist; founded ClariNet, chaired the EFF, and has written about robocars for two decades.

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  Robotaxis reached London within days of a date predicted for them thirteen years earlier, while most other public forecasts of that date were badly wrong.

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  13 years ago, at the Wired 2013 event in London, I was asked when robotaxis would arrive there and as a joke, gave an answer of June 22, 2026 that turned out to be impossibly spot on.

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Freelance climate and energy analyst in Oslo, writing on Europe, the US and Australia; worked in the Australian renewables industry before that.

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  If Australia's renewable rollout weakens, coal and gas plants will run longer and generate more, well past their planned shutdown dates.

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  In the face of weakened renewable roll-out in Australia, the most likely outcome is simply that coal and gas just generate more, and for many more years past their shut down date.

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Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.

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  Demand for open-source component libraries is collapsing, because a model will write exactly the widget you want instead of one you have to customise.

  Anthropic

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  Why would I use a date picker library where I'd have to customize it when I could have Claude write me the exact date picker that I want.

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Investigative journalist on policing, forensics and criminal justice; wrote Rise of the Warrior Cop and writes The Watch.

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  Constitutional limits on policing are not policy preferences to be traded away in a budget negotiation.

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  And that risks giving the impression that basic constitutional rights and restraints on police and executive power that date back to the Founding are, actually, negotiable.

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Long-time Debian developer and free-software maintainer (remctl, INN, pam-krb5) who has published book reviews on his personal site since the 1990s.

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  Iris Kelly Doesn't Date

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  My favorite books I read this year were Ashley Herring Blake's Bright Falls sapphic romance trilogy: Delilah Green Doesn't Care, Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail, and Iris Kelly Doesn't Date. These are not perfect books, but they made me laugh, made me cry, and were impossible to put down.

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  Delilah Green Doesn't Care

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  My favorite books I read this year were Ashley Herring Blake's Bright Falls sapphic romance trilogy: Delilah Green Doesn't Care, Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail, and Iris Kelly Doesn't Date. These are not perfect books, but they made me laugh, made me cry, and were impossible to put down.

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  Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail

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  My favorite books I read this year were Ashley Herring Blake's Bright Falls sapphic romance trilogy: Delilah Green Doesn't Care, Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail, and Iris Kelly Doesn't Date. These are not perfect books, but they made me laugh, made me cry, and were impossible to put down.

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Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.

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  AI agents trained on an expert's published work can only automate a small fraction of that expert's actual job.

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  These would only automate about 15% of what I do as a performance engineer, and will go out of date if I'm not training it to follow industry changes.

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Professor at Berkeley working on robot learning; co-founded Physical Intelligence, and argues that robots will learn from data rather than be programmed.

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  The date that matters for robotics is not when the technology is finished but when the data flywheel starts turning.

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  So to me like what what I tend to think about a lot in terms of timelines is not the date when it will be done but the date when it will when like the flywheel starts basically.

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Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.

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  Enterprise software clients want reassurance, support, and a credible story from a vendor, not just a technically correct solution.

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  clients want a lot more from a software vendor than a solution that performs ABC by XYZ date.

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Programmer and streamer; was an engineer at Netflix, now teaches and argues about editors, Vim and how people learn to program.

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  Every improvement in computing so far has produced more jobs, not fewer.

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  there's been no computer improvement up to this date that did not result in more jobs.

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Psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. Writes Psychiatry at the Margins on the philosophical and scientific arguments inside psychiatry and the psy-sciences.

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  Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance

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  (publication date March 18, 2025, Viking) by Laura Delano is a compelling and troubling memoir of psychiatric patienthood, iatrogenic harm, and finding a meaningful and flourishing life outside of the mental healthcare system.

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Writer on a lost civilisation of the Ice Age; wrote Fingerprints of the Gods and presented Ancient Apocalypse. Archaeologists reject the claims, which he disputes at length.

From one piece Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History | Lex Fridman Podcast #449 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Megalithic architecture plus astronomy is a deliberate message system: Giza encodes a date in a language any astronomically literate future culture can read.

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  It uses massive megalithic architecture, which is very difficult to destroy, and a profound knowledge of astronomy to encode a date in a language that any culture which is sufficiently literate in astronomy will be able to decode.

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  The Great Sphinx and the megalithic temples beside it date to about 12,500 years ago, thousands of years before dynastic Egypt.

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  We are pretty sure that the Sphinx, at least, does date back to 12 and a half thousand years ago and with it, the megalithic temples, the so-called Valley Temple, which stands just to the east and just to the south of the Sphinx and the Sphinx temple, which stands directly in front of the Sphinx.

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Independent policy analyst on space and national security, formerly of the RAND Corporation, who writes on counterspace weapons and rules for keeping satellites safe.

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  The Pentagon has never said publicly which anti-satellite weapons it is preparing against, which means it may not know.

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  This raises public concerns that, at this late date, DoD might not have such a specification, whether classified or unclassified, even for its own internal use.

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Historian of Ukraine at Harvard; wrote The Gates of Europe, Chernobyl and The Russo-Ukrainian War.

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  The Soviet Union would have collapsed with or without Gorbachev — in a different form, on someone else's watch, at some later date.

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  What I think would happen one way or another is the Soviet collapse in a different form, on somebody else’s watch at some later period in time.

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Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.

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  Using a dependency carries ongoing maintenance costs, not just upfront convenience

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  Dependencies aren't free. You have to keep them up to date. They increase your compile or loading times.

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Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, co-director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, and author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness.

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  How Emotions are Made

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  Then, finally, there is Lisa Feldman Barrett's How Emotions are Made, which is very recent and very up to date.

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  The Feeling of Life Itself

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  His book, The Feeling of Life Itself, is a very accessible, authoritative and up-to-date manifesto for IIT.

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Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.

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  Front Matter

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  When I switched to Hugo, I needed to have an extension which allows me to keep my article front matter up to date.

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American senior staff engineer working on developer and user experience and open source; writes at adamdehaven.com.

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  Stowa Flieger Classic 40

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  Stowa Flieger Classic 40 - When I'm not wearing my Apple Watch, this classic Pilot watch is on my wrist. Sapphire crystal, blued steel hands, and a date window at the 6 o'clock position. Perfect.

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British senior engineering manager at Netlify, previously a team lead at the BBC; writes about JavaScript testing, chatbots and serverless at marclittlemore.com.

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  Zoom

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  Zoom is something I use multiple times a day for video and audio communication. It's been the best video calling service I've used to date and works well for a remote working.

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Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.

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  The Last Man on the Moon

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  This documentary was a solid telling of the story of that mission, and of the later-in-Apollo scientific goals and geological exploration that was achieved, as well as a wistful look back at the story of the last humans, to date, to set foot on the moon.

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Economist; Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard, nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, and Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2017.

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  Integration of behavioral science into public policy has so far proceeded from available tools toward problems rather than the reverse.

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  But to date, the integration of behavioral science into public policy has proceeded from developing a set of tools to then searching for problems these tools can help solve.

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Norwegian web pioneer who proposed Cascading Style Sheets in 1994 while at CERN, and was CTO of Opera Software. Also runs a small organic farm.

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  Swatch model GB743

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  I wear a Swatch model GB743, which is lightweight, ticks, and has high-contrast analog dial with day and date. I only take it off to change battery.

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Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.

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  The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter

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  Freese's book is a valuable, non-technical and yet up-to-date review, especially on the topic of dark matter detection.

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