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

Because there is hope.

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

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

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/

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.

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

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”.

What about Datomic Ions?

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.

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.

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

Thank you!

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The other side of the argument.

https://danluu.com/symbolics-lisp-machines/

Also interesting bits about the fall of Symbolics, the AI winter, and why Lisp adoption waned as a result.

The study is interesting but I find the term ‘action game’ too imprecise to actually be useful. Having just skimmed through the paper it seems like what they actually experimented with were highly linear games which require little to no perceptual mapping of the world into memory because you do not have to backtrack much or at all. But that is an artifact of that particular games linear level design, it has nothing to do with ‘action’.

If your primary care physician can only spend ten minutes with you max, find a new doctor. That's not acceptable.

I'll distinguish between their product (actually very good) and service (unreliable, slow). I consistently wish GitLab were as reliable and fast as GitHub, but I stick with them anyway because I think they are on the right path in business and product.

I have a terminal diagnosis of metastatic rectal cancer at the age of 27. I'm receiving treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering and the disease is under control.

However, it's still incurable, and making the patient aware of this was clearly difficult for my doctor, despite his incredible bedside manner. It was actually sort of humorous because the news didn't phase me; I had already come to terms with my death months ago.

The reason I mention this is because today I finally went over the long term plan for my life and death. Essentially Sloan Kettering embraces palliative medicine and combination therapies and they don't give up on you even as you transition from a control-focused treatment plan to a palliative one.

Furthermore, your team of doctors orchestrate all of this so you and your family do not have to stress about how to manage end-of-life care. It's really amazing.

So in my case, I will continue treatment until the disease becomes progressive and we've exhausted all treatment options (chemotherapy, immunotherapy, etc). Then comes the experimental stage; MSK is a research institution so they could potentially have experimental treatments I could trial.

Failing that, my primary oncologist will work alongside a doctor here specializing in palliative medicine and coordinate all future care together. Once the cancer has progressed to the point where I can no longer live a normal life (I'm still working and living life fairly normally, with caveats), they will coordinate hospice and such.

It's nice to not have to worry about that stuff despite the terminal nature of the disease. My hope is that MSK will be "good at death", to paraphrase the title, when it comes to my own. So far I have received amazing care and treatment here, so I am very optimistic. All I know at this point for sure is that I'm going to keep hacking until my last breath.

Wow, I think I finally understand depreciation and you did it in three paragraphs. Kudos.

That is actually how all mentalism works. It's traditional stage magic that is sold as psychology as part of the act to lower the audiences guard. It's super effective. Reading books like Corindas 13 steps to mentalism blew my mind when he goes over all of the shtick and stage magic gimmicks they employ so effectively.

Well, I agree with everything you wrote here.

"just asking questions"

South Park has never been more relevant: https://www.hulu.com/watch/252630

I guess they forgot to teach me that in rabbinical school. I'll bring it up the next time I meet with the Elders of Zion.

Please don't jump to conclusions based on a misinformed comment on the internet. You can't compare the number of dead and conclude anything meaningful from that alone. Hatred of Jews in particular was a cornerstone of Nazi philosophy and they made the unique persecution of them a priority in government. From the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses in 1933, to the Nuremberg Laws, to Kristallnacht, to complete disenfranchisement and seizure of all Jewish property and rights, to widespread European collaboration with the Nazis throughout the war which led to the extermination of countless Jews who were betrayed by their fellow citizens, to Auschwitz-Birkenau, to Zyklon B, and the systematic extermination of the Jewish people. If you want to learn more, visit a Holocaust museum. Better yet, talk to survivors. They are still here in NYC and around the world. But they won't be for much longer.