<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: qbrass</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=qbrass</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 03:47:25 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=qbrass" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qbrass in "Europe has "maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They don't refine crude into bunker oil so the ship's engine can use it. They do it to strip more valuable products out of the oil before using what's left to power the ship.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:47:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803484</link><dc:creator>qbrass</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803484</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qbrass in "Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Intentionally? I've only ever "used" it when trying to copy a link to an image.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:50:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47254432</link><dc:creator>qbrass</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47254432</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47254432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qbrass in "Learn System Design by being a detective in a game"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The option with the most text is always the correct choice. Both for the diagnosis and the solution.<p>At least until problem 11, which I can't advance to because it tells me I have to solve the previous case even though it's solved.</p>
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<p>Don't give them ideas.</p>
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<p>I remember when it was Romneycare.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:14:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46915454</link><dc:creator>qbrass</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46915454</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46915454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qbrass in "House vote keeps federal "kill switch" vehicle mandate"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Relays <i>were</i> standardized.<p>Other parts were sourced from outside suppliers, which also supplied the same or similar parts to other automakers. Some of them were direct replacements, some were easily modified to work, and some could be robbed for components to refurbish your old part.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:36:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46748431</link><dc:creator>qbrass</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46748431</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46748431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qbrass in "Drivers divided on 'American Autobahn' plan to pull speed limits of highways"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The set the limit to 85 in 1999 because people turned the state into a race track.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:13:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46703049</link><dc:creator>qbrass</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46703049</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46703049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qbrass in "I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you're at the top of the buffer, guG will lowercase the whole thing.<p>So if you open a file, go to type G to jump to a line, but accidentally hit g, then try to undo it with u out of habit, before hitting G again, you do the same thing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 08:05:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46656177</link><dc:creator>qbrass</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46656177</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46656177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qbrass in "Gnome dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, you don't make that 4 percent bigger unless you get people who don't use Linux to use Linux.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:25:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46533093</link><dc:creator>qbrass</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46533093</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46533093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qbrass in "Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They didn't accumulate "problem" users, they drove off everyone else.<p>Throwing their fans under the bus to try and get new users has been Mozilla's tactic for the last 15 years. Which is why they're down to 2% market share.<p>Doing it harder isn't going to help them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:25:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46313041</link><dc:creator>qbrass</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46313041</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46313041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qbrass in "Mozilla's latest quagmire"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From the same Wikipedia page:<p>"On July 15, 2003, Time Warner (formerly AOL Time Warner) disbanded Netscape. Most of the programmers were laid off, and the Netscape logo was removed from the building."<p>Peak Netscape was 1996. By 2003, they had already handed development off to Mozilla, and Netscape the browser was just a thin veneer over Mozilla's browser.<p>By 2007, it was just Mozilla with AOL branding and almost all of it's users were people still using AOL in 2007.</p>
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<p>They make better parabolic reflectors than Faraday cages.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 23:01:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46040432</link><dc:creator>qbrass</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46040432</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46040432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qbrass in "Disney made a multi-user treadmill that lets you walk around in VR"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Imagine a disc spinning clockwise, the top edge is moving to the right, the bottom is moving to the left, and the right edge is moving down and the left edge is moving up.<p>By mounting that disc at an angle and changing which edge makes contact with whatever rests on it (your foot in this case), you can change the direction the disc's rotation moves it.</p>
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<p>The sun contains 99.86% of the solar system's mass. Jupiter contains .2%. The other gas giants make up the rest, and everything else combined rounds down to zero. You could dump everything from Mercury to the Oort cloud into Jupiter and it's still not enough mass to turn it into a star.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2024 13:46:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39155490</link><dc:creator>qbrass</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39155490</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39155490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qbrass in "All 7 planets could fit between Earth and the Moon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not a bug, it's a feature.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2024 13:02:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39155178</link><dc:creator>qbrass</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39155178</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39155178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qbrass in "Reasons medieval people slept in cupboards"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canopy_bed" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canopy_bed</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2024 16:44:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39105817</link><dc:creator>qbrass</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39105817</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39105817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qbrass in "Laguna Seca Sued by Neighbors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not laughing because it won't end with this lawsuit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2024 03:10:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39099119</link><dc:creator>qbrass</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39099119</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39099119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qbrass in "A man who used music to try to lure aliens to earth (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just as many as on Mars, but hardly any compared to Venus.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2024 01:41:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39085069</link><dc:creator>qbrass</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39085069</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39085069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qbrass in "John Lasseter drew the BSD daemon logo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I get why they changed it, but they could have come up with something better than a horned yoga ball to replace it with.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2024 23:42:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39035256</link><dc:creator>qbrass</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39035256</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39035256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qbrass in "YouTube begins new wave of slowdowns for users with ad blockers enabled"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A bunch of people who didn't watch their commercials and don't have that feeling about Burger King just got a reminder that they still exist.<p>In spite of your hatred for them, you just provided better advertising than they did for free.</p>
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