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New comment by adrianm in "LLMs Get Lost in Multi-Turn Conversation"

adrianm — Thu, 15 May 2025 04:46:54 +0000

This is a class of mental critic from the Emotion Machine.

New comment by adrianm in "Life as a cancer patient: ‘it feels like dying from the drugs meant to save me’"

adrianm — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 03:19:37 +0000

Because there is hope.

New comment by adrianm in "Origins of Cannabis Smoking"

adrianm — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 14:16:17 +0000

The Hebrew word, בשם (fragrant, sweet), is used to describe cinnamon earlier in the same verse...

Open Letter to the Mobile Developers

adrianm — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:10:18 +0000

Article URL: http://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=5479

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19327689

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by adrianm in "Halo was written with a Lisp dialect called blamscript (2014)"

adrianm — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 12:51:23 +0000

Have you seen Fennel? https://fennel-lang.org/

New comment by adrianm in "Ultima Online spent years developing a system that was destroyed by players"

adrianm — Sun, 23 Dec 2018 23:33:07 +0000

I recommend Raph Koster's latest book "Postmortems" for a digest of his experience developing Ultima Online, including some background on the ecology that never shipped. https://www.raphkoster.com/games/books/

New comment by adrianm in "CUDA 10 in Clojure"

adrianm — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 18:29:28 +0000

The experimental CUDA bindings for LWJGL3 might also be an interesting target for Clojure interop: https://github.com/LWJGL/lwjgl3/blob/master/modules/samples/...

LWJGL3 is full of hidden treasures.

New comment by adrianm in "How Smart People Sabotage Their Success"

adrianm — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 20:24:06 +0000

I’m a cancer patient undergoing treatment. Please be careful, you don’t want this.

New comment by adrianm in "The Workman Keyboard Layout Philosophy (2010)"

adrianm — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 10:04:21 +0000

Do you not write emails, search the web, or do writing on a computer of any kind? I wouldn’t be so quick to judge here. You don’t know what they are really doing on their keyboard all day. Maybe typing is all we have due to a physical disability that limits mobility and communication in other ways. There are a lot of possibilities beyond “writing shit code”.

New comment by adrianm in "Going Serverless: From Common Lisp and CGI to AWS Lambda and API Gateway"

adrianm — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 12:39:17 +0000

What about Datomic Ions?

New comment by adrianm in "Lung Cancer Patients Live Longer with Immune Therapy"

adrianm — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:19:20 +0000

It's way more than $100,000 a year too. My treatment alone (Keytruda, every 3 weeks) is around $300,000 a year; about double the price the company will quote you if you ask, because they don't estimate the cost it takes to get blood work, get seen by an oncologist, and then get the treatment administrated to you safely by a trained nurse ready to respond to any adverse events that may spontaneously occur during infusion. However, thanks to current health care law in the US there are caps on the amount of out-of-pocket expenses your insurance can charge you. I have run of the mill bigco health insurance and my personal max out-of-pocket cost (after premiums, deductibles, etc.) is at least two orders of magnitude less than the cost to insurance.

New comment by adrianm in "Chemotherapy, Then and Now"

adrianm — Sun, 21 Jan 2018 19:45:45 +0000

I am being treated with pembrolizumab for metastatic MSI-H CRC (I'm in my late 20s). Last year the cancer rapidly metastasized further, covering my abdomen in tumors. Prognosis was not good to say the least.

It took around 12 weeks for the treatment to "kick in", but at that point tumor regression became rapid. Every CT scan since has shown significant reduction in the abdominal tumors until my last one a few weeks ago; there is no longer any sign of cancer in my abdomen. Overall, it went from "countless" visible tumors ranging from a few mm to several cms each in size, to nothing visible on CT today. o_O

Who knows what the future will bring. I'm trying to be optimistic but I'm also realistic about the statistics here. However, going from my literal death bed where I was in horrible pain suffering for 24 hours a day to quasi-normalcy in a matter of several months blows my mind when I think about it. It did give me horrible colitis (yay for autoimmune side-effects!), but I'll take that over a painful death any day of the week. The colitis is bad enough that they had to discontinue the treatment for a while.

tldr; Science rules. Side effects suck. And a sincere thank you to anyone reading who is or was ever involved in cancer research.

New comment by adrianm in "Trial of a blood test that detects eight common forms of cancer"

adrianm — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 14:40:53 +0000

I am actually in such a database (MSK-IMPACT), so they definitely exist. Check it out here: http://www.cbioportal.org/study?id=msk_impact_2017#summary

New comment by adrianm in "Gamers Want DMCA Exemption for ‘Abandoned’ Online Games"

adrianm — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 21:33:11 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by adrianm in "Gamers Want DMCA Exemption for ‘Abandoned’ Online Games"

adrianm — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 21:15:40 +0000

Wasn't this addressed a couple of years ago? [1]

[1] http://www.wired.co.uk/article/dmca-game-preservation-exempt...

New comment by adrianm in "Clojure 1.9 is now available"

adrianm — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 20:48:16 +0000

I am a big fan of all Lisps (you will pry my Common Lisp REPL out of my cold, dead hands!), but there is only one that which has elevated both my hobby and professional work into a realm I can honestly describe as fun and intellectually stimulating even years after the honeymoon period has waned. That Lisp is Clojure.

New comment by adrianm in "Apple Agrees to Deal with Ireland Over $15B Unpaid Tax Issue"

adrianm — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 01:06:03 +0000

My credit was unaffected. I objected to some of what they claimed I owed, and got them to throw out almost half. No interest and penalities.

New comment by adrianm in "Apple Agrees to Deal with Ireland Over $15B Unpaid Tax Issue"

adrianm — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 23:04:10 +0000

This is totally false. Not only can you negotiate with them, but you can also set up very reasonable repayment plans based on your ability to pay. I was surprised how easy it was to do this and how willing they are to work with you to actually resolve everything. It does take a couple of hours to get an agent on the phone, though.

New comment by adrianm in "Dell Offers Computers Preinstalled with Ubuntu"

adrianm — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 11:48:44 +0000

My monitor, a Dell UP2715K, is one of the most unsupported pieces of hardware I've ever dealt with on Linux. It has been a nightmare. Nvidia graphics card support has caused me weeks of grief as well. So why have I kept it? Because when I finally got everything to work, I have become addicted to the quality of the text! I honestly can't work with other monitors now due to the low DPI looking like absolute crap. Apple has ruined me. Too bad no one else has stepped into the 5K monitor market.

New comment by adrianm in "Deliveroo raises $385M in new funding"

adrianm — Sun, 24 Sep 2017 20:32:35 +0000

Look into work-study opportunities on campus. You may be able to find a job which is connected to your major.