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bartonfink··on Don't Return Err in Go
Go is absolutely opinionated about unused variables, and its opinion is "that's a compiler error." It's part of what makes Go special. You should try writing some sometime.
bartonfink··on “Dark money” groups help private ISPs lobby against municipal broadband
> you either pay as an employee or as a consumer.

I think you stopped reading, or at least comprehending what you were reading, early.

bartonfink··on This USB flash drive can only store 8KB of data, but will last you 200 years
if it's important enough to archive for hundreds of years it's worth that. Your whataboutism helps nothing, champ.
bartonfink··on The Myth of Medieval Small Beer (2017)
Your personal experience must invalidate large parts of the diarrhea filled lives many others before you have lived and died. Thanks for chiming in, wise one.
bartonfink··on The Rise of the Forever Renter Class
that is a uniquely boneheaded approach to managing a rental property. you can say "there never was a viable path" about anything if you chucklefuck your way through it instead of doing it well.
bartonfink··on Two giants in the satellite telecom industry join forces to counter Starlink
this is the entire basis of timeshare real estate. it's not that hard to see how the metaphor holds up, dude.
bartonfink··on Endurance Running Hypothesis
"personal experience" is a polite way of saying "comfortable falsehood."
bartonfink··on Why We Hate Working for Big Companies (2018)
not all violence uses sticks and stones dope
bartonfink··on Maintenance of lost weight and long-term management of obesity
At least long term obesity management is a self solving problem.
bartonfink··on Problem with selling developer tools is that devs have no purchasing authority
> "leave it running a decade or two"

What expense policy survives a decade or two completely unreviewed and unexamined? The rest of the bullshit you spewed isn't worth reading after that bizarre hypothetical.

bartonfink··on Tech exec predicts billion dollar AI girlfriend industry
That seems low.
bartonfink··on I'm not a running pro but maybe you are
Assuming your goal is just to finish, this is pretty standard. Weights make decent active recovery, but I cannot comment on them specifically. For a beginner to running, forget about tempo/5k pace as part of a structured run. The risk of injury is too high for small benefits. Your biggest physiological gains for quite some time will come from low effort, high volume running. I wouldn't taper for two weeks before the race, like you are. I think there's lots to be said for running the whole race distance before race day, and your week 10 seems like the time to do it. Taper hard the following week.
bartonfink··on Vietnamese property tycoon sentenced to death in $27B fraud case
pavlov wants some strange and wants you to be okay with that
bartonfink··on Amazon owes $525M in cloud-storage patent fight, US jury says
The existence of one incentive does not preclude other relevant incentives, for fuck's sake.
bartonfink··on Animal-free egg protein startup Onego Bio is closer to cracking the egg market
You can use a lot of words, but it doesn't change the underlying fact that you're too lazy to make your dietary principles really work. Burning 3000 calories a day while working in software is absolutely possible. I did it today.
bartonfink··on Animal-free egg protein startup Onego Bio is closer to cracking the egg market
"suitable for a sedentary life style" change this.
bartonfink··on Why big corps don't give donations to open-source maintainers?
Because there are hordes of neckbearded zealots who will loudly claim that's a Jeffrey Epstein level of immoral, and nobody benefits from that kind of distraction.
bartonfink··on [dead]
There's a lot of shit in new. Flag often.
bartonfink··on Ask HN: What is the biggest thing you've changed your mind about?
If GP is a sociopath, this might have been the best thing for the kids.
bartonfink··on Depressed 28-Year-Old Dutch Woman to Legally End Her Life in May
Nothing wrong about someone in pain exercising their choice to stop that pain. I support her. I think it's cruel for you to sentence an adult you have never met to decades of suffering because you don't have the stones to accept her choice. Be a better person. Show some compassion.
bartonfink··on Happy 20th Anniversary, Gmail. I'm Sorry I'm Leaving You
For shitty values of functional. Its biggest innovation as a product was giving people more storage than 1990's Hotmail. The Gmail product today runs on inertia and bootlickers like you to push it, aborsy.
bartonfink··on Ask HN: What important resources can't be found on the internet?
"and yet you participate in society" comments blow.
bartonfink··on The IT Productivity Paradox (2015)
Because they're just another layer of self serving computer bullshit.
bartonfink··on What to Say in Code Reviews
This is just five more verbose ways to say "Consider..."
bartonfink··on Plight of detained US Binance staffer in Nigeria worsens after colleague escapes
"Binance’s head of financial crime compliance, Tigran Gambaryan..." was buried pretty deep in the article so I guess I can't blame you for thinking this guy is at the same level as a bunch of random mariners. I'm chuckling that his colleague got out. I hope this guy does see a Nigerian prison, at least for a little while.
bartonfink··on Home insurers are dropping customers based on aerial images
so in your world, it's irresponsible to own anything unless you also put its replacement cost in escrow. house burned down two weeks after closing? fuck you, take the loss and enjoy being broke or homeless. that's asinine. think more before posting in the future.
bartonfink··on A town employee lowered the fluoride in water for years (2022)
It's as easy as using kosher salt. Read labels, child.
bartonfink··on Doctors warned to stop telling obese patients 'eat less, move more'
Just work to where you can outrun your fork. It's difficult but doable.
bartonfink··on PiVPN v4.6.0: The End
So you want someone else to run it so you can just be part of a community? Seems selfish.
bartonfink··on Ask HN: Any decent lean metrics and logs solutions?
stdout and human observation if you can't be bothered to do it close to right.
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