wesammikhail (u/wesammikhail)

wesammikhail commented on Treasure hunter freed from jail after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold bbc.com/news/articles/cg4... · Posted by u/tartoran

Analemma_ · 4 hours ago

How else could it possibly work? The justice system depends on judges being able to compel action. Within the guardrails established by the system (e.g. no self-incriminating testimony, if you’re in the US), I don’t have a problem with refusal to e.g. turn over evidence just resulting in detention until you comply. It’s not a prison sentence, since you can get out any time you want.

wesammikhail · 3 hours ago

The is the most totalitarian bullshit I've ever heard on HN. The fact that you're okay with another human, just because they have a robe, to compel you to do as they ask OR rot away without a conviction is utter madness.

Imagine if this was the 1500s and the man in the robe was a priest. Would you be okay with that? and if your answer is some form of distinction without a difference argument, I'd urge you to not even reply.

wesammikhail commented on Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025) pv-magazine.com/2025/06/2... · Posted by u/robin_reala

jahnu · 6 days ago

This attitude is ill informed.

Ireland is richer than it has ever been. Poverty and housing difficulties have nothing to do with reducing emissions.

Ireland partly got rich by being a massive CO2 polluter per capita. Now we are rich it’s only fair we lead in transitioning to renewables. Renewables are cheaper now than most forms of energy production. Grids need investment.

I despair at these short sighted and fairly wrong on the facts views.

wesammikhail · 6 days ago

> This attitude is ill informed.

> Renewables are cheaper now than most forms of energy production. Grids need investment.

> Now we are rich it’s only fair we lead in transitioning to renewables.

> I despair at these short sighted and fairly wrong on the facts views.

The level of arrogance is unmatched while being both factually wrong AND self-contradictory.

Absolute cinema!

wesammikhail commented on Building a new Flash bill.newgrounds.com/news/... · Posted by u/TechPlasma

cableshaft · 10 days ago

I made Flash Games back in the day. Here's my old profile on Newgrounds: https://cableshaft.newgrounds.com/

One thing Flash had that nothing else has really seemed to replicate as well since, is an environment that both coders and artists could use. I'd collaborate with an artist, they'd make their animations within an FLA, send it to me, and then I'd copy+paste into the project file, and it'd just work. I could even tweak their animations if need be to remove a frame here or there to tighten the animations and make it feel more fluid, etc.

That being said, I'm not sure I could go back to it now. I've been working with Love2D lately, and I prefer that (especially for the version control). FLA version control was always me going 'GameName-1.fla', 'GameName-2.fla', or when I got a little smarter 'GameName-Date.fla'. Eventually they let you split out the actionscript files into its own files, and that was better for version control, but you still had the binary mess of the FLA file.

But all these sprite-based game editors just can't handle the crazy intricate animations that vector-based Flash games could handle. Porting one of my old games (Clock Legends) that had hundreds of frames of hand drawn animation for a boss that filled the screen would be ridiculously huge nowadays, but the FLA for that was like 23MB, I believe (I'll need to hunt it down, I have it somewhere), and several MB of that were for the songs in the game.

Excited for this project though. It deserves to come back in some form.

wesammikhail · 10 days ago

God I love the look of those old school sites. Takes me back to a happier time. Whatever happened? :(

wesammikhail commented on Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule npr.org/2026/02/28/112349... · Posted by u/andsoitis

wesammikhail · 14 days ago

Honeeeeeeeeey get in here, the board of peace officially declared its first war!

Bring the popcorn with you. No need for salt cause everyone got that in spades on both sides.

wesammikhail commented on How will OpenAI compete? ben-evans.com/benedicteva... · Posted by u/iamskeole

johnfn · 17 days ago

This article is significantly better written than most anti-OpenAI/AI articles, and for that I am really grateful. I am generally an AI booster (lol), so I am happy to read well-considered thought pieces from people who disagree with me.

That being said...

> The one place where OpenAI does have a clear lead today is in the user base: it has 8-900m users. The trouble is, there’re only ‘weekly active’ users: the vast majority even of people who already know what this is and know how to use it have not made it a daily habit. Only 5% of ChatGPT users are paying, and even US teens are much more likely to use this a few times a week or less than they are to use it multiple time a day.

This really props up the whole argument, because the author goes on to say that OpenAI's users are not really engaged. But is "only" 5% of users paying of a 8-900M user base really so inconsequential? What percentage of Meta's users are paying? Google's? I would be curious to see the author dig deeper here, because I am skeptical that this is really as bad as the author suggests.

Moving on to another section:

> If the next step is those new experiences, who does that, and why would it be OpenAI? The entire tech industry is trying to invent the second step of generative AI experiences - how can you plan for it to be you? How do you compete with this chart - with every entrepreneur in Silicon Valley?

Er, are any of these startups training foundation models? No? Then maybe that is how you compete? I suppose the author would say that the foundation model isn't doing much for OpenAI's engagement metrics (and therefore revenue), but I am not sure I agree there.

Still, really good article. I think it really crystalizes the anti-OpenAI argument and it gives me a lot of interesting things to think about.

wesammikhail · 17 days ago

> But is "only" 5% of users paying of a 8-900M user base really so inconsequential? What percentage of Meta's users are paying? Google's? I would be curious to see the author dig deeper here, because I am skeptical that this is really as bad as the author suggests.

The difference is in the unit economics. OpenAI has to spend massively per free user it serves. The others you mentioned have SaaS economics where the marginal cost of onboarding and serving each non-paying user is essentially zero while also gaining money from these free users via advertising. Hence, the free users are actually a net positive rather than an endless money sink.

Keep also in mind that AI has always been, and will always be, a commodity. The moment you start forcing people to convert into paying customers is the moment they jump ship at scale.

Just something to keep in mind.

wesammikhail commented on CERN rebuilt the original browser from 1989 (2019) worldwideweb.cern.ch... · Posted by u/tylerdane

dadoum · 22 days ago

F12, Console, type

    document.designMode = 'on'

wesammikhail · 22 days ago

I had no idea. You just blew my mind

wesammikhail commented on Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs? windowscentral.com/micros... · Posted by u/josephcsible

guidedlight · a month ago

I’m my experience, unwavering Windows folk are simply power users who find *nix shells burdensome.

wesammikhail · a month ago

I deploy all my code on linux and have been thinking about switching from windows to linux for my daily driver. But even I dread that. It´s as if linux has tried as hard as possible to make every single little thing as complicated as possible.

imho, user experience is nowhere to be found in the linux landscape. There is very little focus on that. People will tell you try this or that distro. But once you run into a simple problem, it´s often a rabbit hole of a gazilling cli commands to fix it. In the mean time you´re praying to god to not brick something that used to work before.

wesammikhail commented on We mourn our craft nolanlawson.com/2026/02/0... · Posted by u/ColinWright

arrowsmith · a month ago

Speak for yourself. I don't miss writing code at all. Agentic engineering is much more fun.

And this surprises me, because I used to love writing code. Back in my early days I can remember thinking "I can't believe I get paid for this". But now that I'm here I have no desire to go back.

I, for one, welcome our new LLM overlords!

wesammikhail · a month ago

Speak for yourself. If you find the agentic workflow to be more fun, more power to you.

I for one think writing code is the rewarding part. You get to think through a problem and figure out why decision A is better than B. Learning about various domains and solving difficult problems is in itself a reward.

wesammikhail commented on OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been jakequist.com/thoughts/op... · Posted by u/jakequist

keyle · a month ago

           people are buying Mac Minis specifically to run AI agents with computer use. They’re setting up headless machines whose sole job is to automate their workflows. OpenClaw—the open-source framework that lets you run Claude, GPT-4, or whatever model you want to actually control your computer—has become the killer app for Mac hardware

That makes little sense. Buying mac mini would imply for the fused v-ram with the gpu capabilities, but then they're saying Claude/GPT-4 which don't have any gpu requirements.

Is the author implying mac minis for the low power consumption?

wesammikhail · a month ago

The author is full of shit is what it is. They see a few posts online and extrapolate from that to fit whatever narrative they believe in.