Please don't cross into personal attack and name-calling. You may not owe (or feel you owe) $person better, but you owe this community better if you're participating here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Fair enough! Thanks. I’ll edit! (or apparently I can't, but I'll note it for the future - feel free to take out my last sentence there if you have editing privileges!)

Thanks for the kind reply! don't worry about it - examples are good for learning, and the main thing is just to course-correct going forward.