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New comment by johnla in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

johnla — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:05:47 +0000

I'll perform these songs by AI in concerts if the price is right. And that's how AI starts to leak out into the physical world. AI also hires human workers to do tasks in the real world using Task Rabbit and similar apps.

New comment by johnla in "Xiaomi MiMo Reasoning Model"

johnla — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:58:24 +0000

For it to be brilliant, AI needs to be a benevolent tool all the time. It would take just a few malignant actors to turn our world upside. I suspect it'll follow the same Internet and social media path. Great at first, grow markets, bring us together and then take a turn.

New comment by johnla in "GibberLink [AI-AI Communication]"

johnla — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 19:41:56 +0000

That might not be practical/possible for early days but this does seem like a bridge to that natural next step that /u/dweekly is saying which would quickly phase out this Gibberlink protocol.

New comment by johnla in "DeepSeek open source DeepEP – library for MoE training and Inference"

johnla — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:30:25 +0000

Sounds like a job for AI.

New comment by johnla in "Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?"

johnla — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:59:55 +0000

Try making nuggets from scratch. It’s so good and easy to do. Chicken tenders from breast meat. Egg seasoned with salt, pepper. Dunk into seasoned breading. Dunk into egg again and back to the breading. Pan fry. Yummy.

New comment by johnla in "Starship Flight 7"

johnla — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 15:00:28 +0000

I would consider these launches test launches. Production is when they include commercial payloads and humans.

New comment by johnla in "La Basilica Di San Pietro"

johnla — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 21:17:41 +0000

This might actually be an awesome use case.

New comment by johnla in "La Basilica Di San Pietro"

johnla — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 21:13:02 +0000

Yes! I forgot about this but I knew I've seen something very similar long ago also by Microsoft. I wonder if any Photosynth DNA got into this.

New comment by johnla in "Hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone National Park"

johnla — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 14:10:19 +0000

I think most of them are new to this type of nature so you're stuck in "is this normal? Am I in danger? If I run, will I look like a fool?" So you're standing there and looking for other people's reactions before making your own. So it's a bunch of people frozen and looking at each other before 1 person makes a run for it and everyone else does too.

New comment by johnla in "White House wants Moon to have its own time zone, Coordinated Lunar Time (CLT)"

johnla — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 14:38:22 +0000

It will forever boggle me but the way I sort of rationalize it is that speed basically borrows energy from time. Something like that. So the faster you go, the slower the time goes. So if you go the speed of light, you're taking so much time away that when you make a roundtrip, you're like 50 years into the future.

That's a totally wrong explanation but it helps me sort out the effects and what to expect. If you fly quickly around the Earth, your watch is a tiny bit different than the stationary clock.

New comment by johnla in "How Miles Davis hired John Coltrane"

johnla — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 14:23:54 +0000

Probably John Coltrane was pissed but then realized, damn, that was really good music happening in there. Screw it, but i'm out as soon as the last note is done.

New comment by johnla in "Dune: Part Two Is the Best Sci-Fi Film of the Decade"

johnla — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 14:23:12 +0000

For me, it resonated strongly with me because I"m a middle aged Asian American with immigrant parents and I have young kids. It hits me in a lot of levels emotionally. I get why someone who doesn't share my background not get it. Also, you kind of need to be in the mood for that type of humor.

New comment by johnla in "Show HN: Better Seater – Wedding seating chart optimizer"

johnla — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 20:24:39 +0000

Would you make that open source? I'm interested in this problem. I'm sure there are some OS bin packing algorithms but I not familiar with ones that have separation and linking rules.

New comment by johnla in "Show HN: Better Seater – Wedding seating chart optimizer"

johnla — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 20:18:55 +0000

This is interesting. What's the algorithm that you use to optimize?

New comment by johnla in "A suicide crisis among veterinarians"

johnla — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:36:10 +0000

Dark comedic thought: if a prerequisite to suicide is to get your affairs in order and leave behind a clean house, suicide would be very low; ugh, too lazy to clean. I'll just live instead.

New comment by johnla in "Bruce Lee and Me"

johnla — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 14:17:34 +0000

Near-libelous is fitting. I'm a Bruce fanatic since childhood and there are a lot of personal accounts of Bruce and they never painted him as the guy in Tarantino's movie. I love Tarantino but that was bad. Tarantino likes to play with his characters but in this case Bruce was a real person and a hero to a generation(s). That was unfair to do that to a real person for some comedy.

New comment by johnla in "Money is the megaphone of identity (2020)"

johnla — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 22:03:48 +0000

Yes, it's good to keep a good perspective by thinking our position relative to the world but relative to our surroundings and cost of living too. Probably living the US, we're near the top for expenditures/costs too.

New comment by johnla in "Money is the megaphone of identity (2020)"

johnla — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 22:01:52 +0000

I love this essay.

New comment by johnla in "A.I. imagery may destroy history as we know it"

johnla — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 14:20:13 +0000

How did you forcefully lucid dream?

New comment by johnla in "1Password to Add Telemetry"

johnla — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 19:07:25 +0000

At risk of sounding dumb: what's in the telemetry data?