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"PLEASE COME FROM" is one of the eldritch horrors of software development.

(It's a "reverse goto". As in, it hijacks control flow from anywhere else in the program behind your unsuspecting back who stupidly thought that when one line followed another with no visible control flow, naturally the program would proceed from one line to the next, not randomly move to a completely different part of the program... Such naivety)


As long as there are no vogons on the way to build a hyperspace bypass.

Here's a starting point in 93 lines of Ruby, but that one is already bigger than necessary:

https://radan.dev/articles/coding-agent-in-ruby

Really, of the tools that one implements, you only need the ability to run a shell command - all of the agents know full well how to use cat to read, and sed to edit.

(The main reason to implement more is that it can make it easier to implement optimizations and safeguards, e.g. limit the file reading tool to return a certain length instead of having the agent cat a MB of data into context, or force it to read a file before overwriting it)


It's perhaps fitting that Christopher Priest, one of the biographers, is the author of Inverted World, that might well fit in the "inner space" genre.

To quantify that: If the author has self-published on Amazon, 35%-70% goes to the author. (70% above a certain price threshold and assuming the e-book is exclusive to KDP) If published via a publisher, the author is more likely to be getting 10%-15%.

Anyone (with sufficient karma, I guess; I don't recall, but HN gates a few features behind that) can flag for any reason, and sufficient flags will get a post taken down. HN is prickly - my guess is this got flagged because it's mostly poorly supported speculation. I didn't flag it myself, but did find it pretty ridiculous.

> The 244-page technical artifact, the thing that would have to survive peer review, refuses to actually quantify.

In what world does this author live where the system card is meant to be a scientific paper?

It's worth being skeptical, but it's nonsense to assume that the system card is meant for him or anyone to be able to reproduce and determine what the model actually did or did not. We won't know that until it is actually available.


So happy I decline to even start the Meta interview cycles. The company seemed ridiculous even back then, but this is next level.

If you take 2 on average every 4 hours, you're at 12. If you're feverish or otherwise feeling ill enough and sleep deprived enough, forgetting when you took them last is easy. Personally I write down the time I took the last one.

It is absolutely valid to warn about long term use, and NSAIDs in particular (I was lucky and had a gastroscopy before they'd done any serious damage, but they found significant erosion of my stomach lining due to NSAIDs), but acetaminophen/paracetamol isn't an NSAID (ibuprofen and aspirin, for example, are)

To be clear, it was nabumetone, celecoxib or meloxicam (at various times, not overlapping) for me.

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