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Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.

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  Typing on a standard, non-split keyboard for extended periods causes hand and wrist pain.

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  Using a keyboard in this position for a long time causes pain

  Review of the MoErgo Go60 Keyboardarslan.io

Writes Very Serious, a newsletter on politics, the economy and culture, and hosts the podcast of the same name.

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  Seeking special tax treatment that could not sustainably be extended to everyone is morally wrong.

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  it's also morally wrong to seek out special treatment that could not sustainably be offered to everyone.

  Stop Microlooting the Tax Codejoshbarro.com

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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  Number Go Up

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  I didn't read much non-fiction this year, but the best of what I did read was Zeke Faux's Number Go Up about the cryptocurrency bubble. This book will not change anyone's mind, but it's a readable and entertaining summary of some of the more obvious cryptocurrency scams. I also had enough quibbles with it to write an extended review, which is a compliment of sorts.

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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  Claude Code

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  Claude Code (CC) emerged as the first convincing demonstration of what an LLM Agent looks like - something that in a loopy way strings together tool use and reasoning for extended problem solving.

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Roboticist; co-founded iRobot and Rethink Robotics, directed the MIT AI Lab, and publishes a scorecard grading his own dated predictions about AI, robots and self-driving.

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  Cars people own will double as driverless taxis when the owner is not using them, in ten major US cities, some time from the mid-2020s.

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  Such "taxi" services where the cars are also used with drivers at other times and with extended geography, in 10 major US cities NET 2025

  Their words now

  This is unlikely to happen in the first half of this century.

Astrobiologist and theoretical physicist at Arizona State University, working on assembly theory and the physics of life.

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  We are conscious because we are objects extended deep in time — consciousness is all of that history rolled up in us.

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  Yeah. I think if you’re thinking about this thinking about living things as these giant causal structures or these objects that are deep in time or whatever language we end up using to describe it seems to me that consciousness is about the fact that we have a conscious experience is because we are these temporally extended objects. Consciousness and the abstraction that we have in our minds is actually a manifestation of all the time that’s rolled up in us.

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