Hacker News: sambeau

New comment by sambeau in "Time to start de-Appling"

sambeau — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:01:51 +0000

I turnips were watches, I'd wear one by my side.

New comment by sambeau in "10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea"

sambeau — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:57:43 +0000

Thritto.

New comment by sambeau in "The cost of turning down wind turbines in Britain"

sambeau — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 12:24:29 +0000

This is the main issue. People simply cannot afford to use this extra power. If power was cheap then all kinds of devices would switch to electric, especially heating and cars.

The other issue is that the UK has unpredictable weather and no way to store energy at a grid-level. It can store enough to load balance spikes but there is still nothing to replace the months of gas we once had stored in giant salt chambers (you can thank Liz Truss for decommissioning those).

Without vast amounts of long-term energy storage we will continue to throw away power when we have too much and fire up gas generators when wind power isn't making any (which happens surprisingly often).

Putin's Plot Against 'Great' Britain – and How He Got Away with It

sambeau — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 12:25:26 +0000

Article URL: https://bylinetimes.com/2022/03/08/putin-plot-against-great-britain-and-how-he-got-away-with-it/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45567572

Points: 4

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New comment by sambeau in "MAML – A new configuration language"

sambeau — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 10:22:26 +0000

I like it, but it's too late.

It could also do with a datetime datatype, the one thing (apart from comments) that I constantly feel the need for in JSON.

New comment by sambeau in "Jeffrey Hudson the Court Dwarf of the English Queen Henrietta Maria of France"

sambeau — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 10:14:50 +0000

The Oakham brewery has a rather fine beer named after him:

https://www.oakhamales.com/product/jhb/

New comment by sambeau in "The right wing is coming for Wikipedia"

sambeau — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 17:01:20 +0000

Wikipedia is a global resource, edited by educated—often academic—people all over the world. Why would anyone expect it to conform to the US idea of what is left and right? For most of Europe the American Democrats are to the right of their mainstream right-wing parties.

There is no bias to the left. The USA has shifted so far to the right that balance now looks leftist.

New comment by sambeau in "Massive Attack turns concert into facial recognition surveillance experiment"

sambeau — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:28:08 +0000

This is face detection, not recognition. Face recognition would have a correct name underneath each face.

New comment by sambeau in "Synthetic gasoline"

sambeau — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 12:20:23 +0000

The focus for these kind of alternatives should be on aviation—with the most difficult fuel to replace. Maybe we'd need this for classic cars, emergency generators and a few other smaller things, but even classic cars can get electric refits. Cars, motorbikes, trucks etc should be electric; shipping needs to embrace sail-electric hybrids; and bio-fuels/synthetic fuel should be aimed at aviation (and maybe as a stop-gap for shipping). My 10¢.

New comment by sambeau in "NIMBYs threaten to sink Project Sail, a $17B datacenter development in Georgia"

sambeau — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:44:13 +0000

These giant datacentres bring nothing to a community; they only take, take, take. Why would anyone want one in their neighbourhood?

New comment by sambeau in "CO2 Battery"

sambeau — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 12:58:04 +0000

What is the advantage here over compressed air?

New comment by sambeau in "Tell HN: Stop using "dropped" to mean "added""

sambeau — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:10:20 +0000

I can't think of a single example where dropped means added.

New comment by sambeau in "Tell HN: Stop using "dropped" to mean "added""

sambeau — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:07:40 +0000

"The player was dropped and released from his contract."

Dropped == released

New comment by sambeau in "Tell HN: Stop using "dropped" to mean "added""

sambeau — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 16:55:42 +0000

Dropped doesn’t mean added: it means released.

New comment by sambeau in "Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator"

sambeau — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 09:58:44 +0000

This is so depressing.

Also, why does the female ninja suddenly grow a penis?

New comment by sambeau in "Is It JavaScript?"

sambeau — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 10:50:37 +0000

Typescript is not just javascript; Javascript is just Typescript.

/pedantry

New comment by sambeau in "German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal"

sambeau — Mon, 26 May 2025 16:12:48 +0000

Can we so CrowdStrike next?

New comment by sambeau in "Amdash – Human only punctuation mark"

sambeau — Fri, 23 May 2025 19:19:44 +0000

Is that a British vs American thing? I had always thought it was a newspaper vs Novel thing.

New comment by sambeau in "Show HN: I made an app to create personalized stories for children in 5 minutes"

sambeau — Thu, 22 May 2025 09:31:24 +0000

Amongst other things, I'm writing children's books.

Each one is a labour of love that takes years to produce. It requires detailed thought from word choices, character design, world-building, characters, to fun plot twists. It's really hard and takes a lot of work. It's taken me over a decade to teach myself how to do it. I've been working on my current book for over two years.

My government has decided that my copyright is invalid for AIs. So, as soon as it is published, years of hard work will be slurped into the mediocracy machine for anyone—like you—to abuse.

It's theft and you are a fence.

New comment by sambeau in "Show HN: I made an app to create personalized stories for children in 5 minutes"

sambeau — Tue, 20 May 2025 21:29:59 +0000

This is ghastly.

Children’s books are some of the most wonderful little pieces of art; art that nurtures, entertains, educates and instills both moral compasses and working funny bones. All of our lives have been enriched by them. Some children’s stories continue to enrich us for all of our lives.

This doesn’t just steal work from those artists working today, but it steals from every artist who came before. It adds nothing to humanity; it robs so much.

It also destroys nature to do it. It robs from the world and worsens humanity.

Why do it? Money? Infamy? Internet points?

Please delete the project and do something worthwhile.