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fshee··on Ask HN: What habits did you achieve this year?
- From sedentary to rock climbing quite frequently. Climbing has had the nice benefit of also:

    - Losing 15 pounds, gaining a few back in muscle.

    - Journaling of the experience outdoors (125 pitches worth!).

    - Making good friends.
- Near zero alcohol consumption.

- Regularly attending church.

fshee··on FreeBSD 13.1 Beta 1
FWIW Steam, Counter Strike: Global Offensive, and Dota 2 all worked great for me on FreeBSD. The other things you listed are issues/have their own problems. No Docker is the showstopper for me.

https://www.freshports.org/games/linux-steam-utils/

fshee··on Show HN: EBNF Specification of the BBC Shipping Forecast
Huh, great idea. Might (attempt to) do one of these for metars.
fshee··on 1Password Has Raised $620M
I wouldn't assume the phrase is casting a value judgement.

I hear the phrase from time to time in aviation. "Have to sell the first plane" / "Doesn't pass the WAF" / "Wife thinks owning two planes it too expensive." I have no reason to believe these folks are not in a loving relationship.

Nothing to do with intelligence.

fshee··on A simple defer feature for C
Somewhat related: I hacked some macro up in gnu89 C to get a Go styled defer once upon a time. I felt bad for making my compiler course instructor review that code... Very convenient, though.
fshee··on Ask HN: Do you have to use LinkedIn to get hired?
No. When I attempted to create a LinkedIn a few years ago they flagged my account as spam and requested a photo ID. They will not get one from me.

GitHub under Microsoft also flagged a new-ish work related GitHub account as spam. They eventually reversed the suspension after four/five months. Luckily my day-to-day work does not have GitHub in the loop. On one occasion a co-worker did me a favor and submitted a PR for me.

* In LinkedIn's case I used some Czech in my profile. Maybe that made it seem suspicious.

* GitHub doesn't like when you delete a GitHub account, wait some amount of time, then create another GitHub account with the same email address.

fshee··on New record levels of private aviation flights
I would expect in the short term used GA aircraft prices will go up. That's certainly what's been happening. The Cessna 150 I began private pilot training in has sold twice since I've met it. Gaining almost $10,000 in the process.

Long term I hope we'll see more production of GA aircraft and used prices will go down.

fshee··on Go is a terrible language (2020)
True. I seemed to have missed that and came off a tad rude doing so. Part of my opinion is now in the mix. :-)
fshee··on Go is a terrible language (2020)
Superficial. You prefer no braces, no underscores, and no colon. Typing is cheap. I don't mind 'em. Your second example has more implied than syntactical gripes.

    albums = append(albums, newAlbum)
implies immutability. I like that. The latter does not. I don't like that. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
fshee··on I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as training for Copilot
Grats. I abandoned a while ago as well. If anyone is looking for a rec for self-hosting: Gitea is cake. Sits nicely behind Caddy as all my other services do. Alternatives such as Gitlab I found wanted to 'own' too much of my system.
fshee··on Playdate pre-orders begin in July
I appreciate the ~decent <noscript/> textContent. Telling exactly what purpose(s) JavaScript serves helps make an informed decision on whether to open a graphical web browser or continue with w3m. (In this case, it was obvious I could read on about Playdate just fine.)

I've grown sick of create-react-app default <noscript/> textContent.

> Hello! Javascript is required for purchasing, signing up for the newsletter, viewing videos, and other content on this page. Please enable Javascript.

> Your browser doesn't seem to support video.

fshee··on Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?
I've purchased three Helix PCBs from Little Keyboards. Incredibly friendly people, easy to get ahold of whether is on Discord or through email. No issue with putting the keyboards together that wasn't user error. QMK has been a joy to use.

Keyboard for home, work, girlfriend's place. Colemak support everywhere.

https://www.littlekeyboards.com/collections/helix-pcb-kits