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elbrian··on Googlebook
No
elbrian··on Next.js is infuriating
You mean like this?

nvm use && npm i && npm run dev

elbrian··on All my thoughts after 40 hours in the Vision Pro
You’ve never found comfort in a show, movie, book or video game?

That’s actually really sad.

elbrian··on [dead]
> Over the past few years, I made the decision to totally cut obscenities out from my speech.

So the author made a personal choice and now believes anyone who doesn’t also make the same change is an idiot?

Sounds like something a person with a weak intellect would do.

elbrian··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2023)
Friendly FYI -- the link to your resume on your website is broken.
elbrian··on Linux overtakes Mac as Steam's second-most used OS, thanks to the Steam Deck
Rimworld is also great on an M1 MBP.
elbrian··on Twitter’s Rebrand to X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Thanks to Microsoft
Where did anyone say they were personally conned?
elbrian··on Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours
Lack of mainstream adoption.
elbrian··on R/webdev could not solve this challenge: A “Is it Friday” website, no JavaScript
Seems like asking someone to draw a red line on a white piece of paper with just a black sharpie marker.
elbrian··on Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs
I see the name “Brave Browser” and my brain just refuses to engage. Their marketing team ruined the product for me before I ever got the chance to try it.
elbrian··on Apology
This apology is written in an entirely self-serving tone.

The author is clearly a narcissist.

elbrian··on The Art of the Cover Letter
If an org has ever rejected me for not submitting a cover letter, I consider that a bullet dodged.
elbrian··on Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar (2018)
Could you provide a couple examples of the types of groups you're referring to?
elbrian··on Slack is down
Very strange to be so upset by an accurate and concise statement, while offering an alternative that isn't even factually true.
elbrian··on Microsoft cut off game maker's revenue stream, so he built his own replacement
As long as there's an option to remove them, I look at ad-supported games as a demo. I'll always gladly pay to remove the ads if I like the game enough to play it more than a couple times.
elbrian··on How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer
> I saw many flaws and bugs.

Can you tell us about (or link us to) some of the many bugs you found in Firefox?

elbrian··on PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by former Israeli spy
> When Trump became president, was it still Obama’s administration?

The current president picks up where the previous one left off -- they don't start with a clean slate and no historical baggage.

elbrian··on Every American Car Brand Is on the Bottom Half of CR's Reliability Rankings
I Google'd "Porsche Taycan 30000" and found these sources for the 30k pre-orders claim:

* https://thedriven.io/2019/07/31/porsche-taycan-pre-orders-su...

* https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/29/porsche-taycan-reservation...

There is almost-certainly no source for the "most of those customers currently own a Tesla" statement, because that's not something Porsche would ever disclose.

elbrian··on Every American Car Brand Is on the Bottom Half of CR's Reliability Rankings
Ah, so like an Audi, BWM, Mercedes, Acura, Infiniti or Lexus?
elbrian··on At an Outback Steakhouse Franchise, Surveillance Blooms
Typos happen. In fact, you made one yourself just a couple hours prior to ridiculing me about mine:

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21312002&goto=threads%...

Don't worry though... I won't make fun of you for it, because I'm not so desperate to prove my intelligence to internet strangers.

elbrian··on At an Outback Steakhouse Franchise, Surveillance Blooms
I wouldn't patron an establishment that utilizes such a system, out of respect for the waitstaff.

Anyone who has ever worked at a call center knows just how soul-sapping these types of metric-monitoring systems can be.

elbrian··on NordVPN confirms it was hacked
Who said anything about being happy about a VPN provider knowing anything?

It's about choosing between the lesser of two evils.

elbrian··on Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work
Excellent analogy! I'm so happy that telephone carriers do nothing to prevent my phone from being called by spammers 10x daily.
elbrian··on China Is Forcing Tech Companies to Choose Between Profits and Free Speech
Nope.
elbrian··on I tried to hack my insomnia
Will you talk to my boss and get her to start letting me come in and go home whenever I want every day?

I tried telling her that my body doesn't run on the same schedule as the rest of society, but all she did was laugh in my face.

Thanks in advance, doc.

elbrian··on China Is Forcing Tech Companies to Choose Between Profits and Free Speech
> Because both are just a political stances.

White supremacy is a racist belief, not a political stance or faction.

Why are you using a false equivalence to make a point?

elbrian··on China Is Forcing Tech Companies to Choose Between Profits and Free Speech
One group stands for supremacy, while the other stands for equality.

Why are you are using a false equivalence to make a point?

elbrian··on Ask HN: Best Laptop for Developer?
I use a Dell XPS 13 9570 with Ubuntu and I am absolutely smitten with it.

My last laptop was an XPS 13 9350, and I loved it too, but I did find it a bit too small for my liking so I ultimately ended up selling it and buying the 9570.

Let me know if you have any questions about this specific model, and I'll be happy to help as best I can.

elbrian··on China Is Forcing Tech Companies to Choose Between Profits and Free Speech
You really couldn't be bothered to come up with one single example?

Yikes.

elbrian··on China Is Forcing Tech Companies to Choose Between Profits and Free Speech
> Supporting political organisation is the form of political activity.

White power may be a tenant of many different political factions, but it is not a political ideology in itself.

White power is a racist belief. That's it.

> He was bullied and fired for these actions only, I don't see any mentions that he was annoying people any way other than expressing his views.

I don't see any evidence that Kevin was bullied in any way.

Did you not read my last reply to you, before making this reply? Kevin was fund raising, using Google resources, for white supremacy groups.

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