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New comment by johnnylambada in "We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports"

johnnylambada — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:50:25 +0000

I’m not sure why the downvotes. I think the poster is basically saying the same thing as this YouTube-er. I read “Million monkeys” as referring to LLMs.

https://youtu.be/DNN8cHqRIB8?si=s2VBjZXrP21yziXa

New comment by johnnylambada in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

johnnylambada — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 17:30:40 +0000

One thing you won’t get with in an LLM is genuine research. I once answered a 550 point question by researching the source code of vim to see how the poster’s question could be resolved. [0]

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/619423/backup-restore-th...

New comment by johnnylambada in "The Big City; Save the Flophouses (1996)"

johnnylambada — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:47:53 +0000

I imagine they’re all gone now. A great example of the free market creating a niche product that was useful and affordable to its customers and the government regulating it out of existence. I’m sure there were abuses by owners but the system worked for the majority.

New comment by johnnylambada in "Generative AI Scripting"

johnnylambada — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 11:15:34 +0000

genaiscript@1.70.1 fixed it for me -- thanks!

New comment by johnnylambada in "Generative AI Scripting"

johnnylambada — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 03:00:01 +0000

I'm on macos 14.5

New comment by johnnylambada in "Generative AI Scripting"

johnnylambada — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 02:59:20 +0000

same

New comment by johnnylambada in "Generative AI Scripting"

johnnylambada — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 02:51:32 +0000

Going through getting started on the command line fails:

  $ npx genaiscript script create proofreader
  Need to install the following packages:
  genaiscript@1.70.0
  Ok to proceed? (y)

  file /Users/me/src/learn/genaiscript/proofreader/genaisrc/proofreader.genai.mjs already exists
  Error: file /Users/me/src/learn/genaiscript/proofreader/genaisrc/proofreader.genai.mjs already exists
      at copyPrompt (/Users/me/.npm/_npx/3f5b5bbcce7f85b9/node_modules/genaiscript/built/genaiscript.cjs:96237:35)
      at async _Command.createScript2 (/Users/me/.npm/_npx/3f5b5bbcce7f85b9/node_modules/genaiscript/built/genaiscript.cjs:96327:15)

New comment by johnnylambada in "Humans began to rapidly accumulate technological knowledge 600k years ago"

johnnylambada — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 02:27:41 +0000

It’s fascinating to think about the number of PUs (procedural units) it takes to make a modern tool. Something as simple as a modern hammer must number in the thousands and a mobile phone in the millions or billions.

New comment by johnnylambada in "Google AI recommends adding Elmer's glue to pizza cheese after scanning Reddit"

johnnylambada — Fri, 24 May 2024 04:17:22 +0000

Well it does work

New comment by johnnylambada in "An analysis of the Rabbit R1 APK"

johnnylambada — Fri, 03 May 2024 21:30:40 +0000

Several folks have stated that it could be just an app. I disagree. Modern versions of Android on a real phone severely limit what an app can do. It can't run forever, it can't gather any and all telemetry available to the physical device at will.

As for battery life, there's a lot you can do at the OS layer to limit what services run, but at the end of the day you're not running on a piece of hardware that has been honed by thousands of engineering hours and billions of dollars, so V1 is going to be pretty rough.

New comment by johnnylambada in "An analysis of the Rabbit R1 APK"

johnnylambada — Fri, 03 May 2024 04:04:34 +0000

As an Android developer and someone who has studied the ASOP internals, I don’t see what the big deal is. If I were going to build custom hardware that has a custom ui then it makes complete sense to start with the open source version of Android. Google has spent billions inventing that wheel and you can use it for free. It has everything you need (except realtime). The natural way to build ui apps in Android is to make an apk. Doing anything else would be weirdly unnecessary.

New comment by johnnylambada in "An analysis of the Rabbit R1 APK"

johnnylambada — Fri, 03 May 2024 03:57:24 +0000

If you run the hardware then an Android app can do anything you want it to.

New comment by johnnylambada in "Descent 3 Source Code"

johnnylambada — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 04:40:02 +0000

Great! Brings back memories of descent 1 & 2. I played d1 for hours over the early internet. My favorite level was Minerva and my arch enemy was named “upinya”. Amazing what the brain remembers from so long ago.

New comment by johnnylambada in "Megaparsec Tutorial"

johnnylambada — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 16:45:18 +0000

I thought this was going to be an article about measuring vast distances in space. Instead it's a tutorial abouta Haskell library. Personally, I was disappointed.

New comment by johnnylambada in "Show HN: I made a HTMX Playground 100% in the browser"

johnnylambada — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 21:24:27 +0000

Thanks for the link. I read both Carson's (your?) article and Max's. In general I see the point, but I think what's missing is a htmx-specific Android/iOS app template. Something that wraps a WebView but perhaps preprocess and reacts to mobile specific html tags or special hx-mobile-xxx attribues to existing tags that know how to do special mobile things. I'll have to think more about this.

New comment by johnnylambada in "Show HN: I made a HTMX Playground 100% in the browser"

johnnylambada — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 22:00:33 +0000

I love the concept behind htmx & started reading the book today. But every time I think about using it, I remember that I'll eventually have to support native mobile apps as well and I'll be completely re-writing not only my frontend but much of my backend to do it. I know about hyperview.org but a react-native app won't really cut it for the use cases I'm interested in.

New comment by johnnylambada in "Fish skin can heal other animals' eye injuries"

johnnylambada — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 19:50:07 +0000

“Mirza Melo, a veterinary ophthalmologist in northeastern Brazil's Ceará state”

Article says she treated them. I doubt they intentionally injured them.

New comment by johnnylambada in "Show HN: Van, truck or car camp for $0 a night"

johnnylambada — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 03:26:00 +0000

$100/yr to join a club of fellow California homeowners / home renters who love to camp and are willing to reciprocally allow stays at their home is not bad. Especially if that $100 is used to pre vet users who will behave in a way that will garner 4-5 star reviews consistently.

New comment by johnnylambada in "Show HN: Van, truck or car camp for $0 a night"

johnnylambada — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 03:06:47 +0000

Homeowners insurance covers a lot. If you have more than 30 nites (don’t quite me on the number) of stay then you need arider as well.

New comment by johnnylambada in "Show HN: Van, truck or car camp for $0 a night"

johnnylambada — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 02:55:23 +0000

If you’re car camping you probably don’t have necessary facilities.