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SnooSux··on Gender and Age Differences in Love Styles and Attitudes
Personally I find it to be a useful model. It's not going to perfectly describe every relationship accurately. But I find it gives me an opportunity to be introspective about a relationship and my contributions to it, including my shortcomings.

Not everything needs to be scientifically rigorous to make a positive impact. Though I agree it's useful to keep in mind the limitations of a given description. MBTI is neat but making it part of a job application feels like a step too far.

SnooSux··on List of most expensive video games to develop
Star Citizen is gonna be so good if it ever comes out
SnooSux··on Taxing Mechanical Engineers and Subsidizing Drama Majors
I'm not disagreeing with any of your points, the 10k forgiveness policy is strictly a way to appeal to young voters. But you clearly didn't read the article.

The article is about changes to the income-based repayment program, which was a big change that was part of the same bill. And frankly it doesn't get enough attention for how much of a long-term impact that it'll have on future borrowers, as opposed to the (tentatively) one-time forgiveness that affects mostly college graduates.

SnooSux··on Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated
Be not afraid
SnooSux··on Show HN: Rentaflop – Render your Blender projects without sacrificing quality
My familiarity with Docker tells me this wouldn't be unreasonable on Linux, but Windows would probably be challenging if not impossible. I'm much more familiar with Linux so take that with a grain of salt.

I agree that I'd like to be able to do this without having to reboot and set things up before starting to mine/render.

SnooSux··on We should link student loan forgiveness to national service
The article somehow doesn't mention ROTC, which is a much bigger commitment but can pay for all 4 years of school. Feels like a missed opportunity at the very least.

My main gripe with student loan forgiveness is that it addresses the symptom rather than the issue itself of college being too damn expensive. National military service at least helps pay for college, though doesn't leave many options for those who are unable or unwilling to join the armed forces.

The article only briefly mentions it but I've always thought the idea of non-military national service was interesting. Not necessarily a good idea depending on implementation details, but an interesting one nonetheless.

SnooSux··on Handwritten thank you notes increase sales
> good customer service is the best marketing, and it's often very nearly free

Free may apply less to CFA. One thing they don't get enough credit for is that they a decent amount more than their competitors who pay barely above minimum wage. It's clearly an investment that's payed off, but there is definitely a cost to it.

And Popeyes would be my go-to for chicken if it weren't so far away.

SnooSux··on Launch HN: Lion Pose (YC W21) – Safe and effective skin care for people of color
Thanks for the reply! It's pretty cool to see a physical product succeed in YC!

One thought, you mentioned Skin Type 3-6 in one of the products. Do you have a description of that anywhere? Most Google results for "skin type" focus mainly on how oily your skin is. Having some sort of literature directly on the site may help. Though tbf I'm speaking as a man, I'm not sure how well known it is for your target audience.

SnooSux··on Launch HN: Lion Pose (YC W21) – Safe and effective skin care for people of color
I assume HN leans more male so I'm inclined to ask, have you given any thought to skincare products for men?

And do you have any plans to expand from direct to consumer skincare? Maybe something to address medical texts exclusively depicting white skin?

SnooSux··on Show HN: I built a tool to help you read Hacker News on Kindle
> In June, I quit my job to start indie hacking full-time.

What has that been like?

SnooSux··on Show HN: Japanese Complete Book 1 Released
As a very casual Japanese studier (450 day streak on Duolingo), this looks interesting! I like having kanji etymology explained or having them broken down into their constituent parts, even if it's not strictly the most efficient way to memorize.

The kanji in English sentences is intriguing, I'm not sure how effective it would be.

Can you post a complete table of contents so I can see if it makes sense for me to purchase? Do you have a timeline for the next book release? I may be more interested in that.

SnooSux··on Show HN: Convert English to Cron Expressions
Really cool project, but I may have found a mistake. Typing "21st night september" returns “At 12:00 AM, on day 21 of the month, only in September”. And I would expect it to be maybe 9-11:59pm, not midnight that morning. But maybe 'night' is just not very well defined?
SnooSux··on History and effective use of Vim (2019)
It's probably not what you're looking for but I find vim bindings for VSCode is a good balance between vanilla vim and an IDE.
SnooSux··on Crowdfunding Campaign Launched to 'Keep the Hangprinter Free'
The Hangprinter risks losing their IP and launched a GoFundMe to help defend themselves and keep the designs free.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-hangprinter-free

SnooSux··on Ask HN: Non-violent video games with great stories?
Is "Tale of Two Brothers" supposed to be "Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons?"
SnooSux··on GitHub Résumé: Service that creates a résumé based on your GitHub repos/activity
I like to Star Repos that I wanna take a look at later that I may not have an immediate use for. You can view any repos you've starred right on Github.
SnooSux··on Modern Python Performance Considerations
It's been done: https://github.com/pola-rs/polars

But I'm sure there's always room for improvement

SnooSux··on Speedsolving Rubik's Cube: 8355 Method
Most records have "reconstructed solutions", where people recreate the solution from start to end. You could get the number of moves that way, though I couldn't find a dataset of them.

> Are the world records getting faster due to quicker execution of same number of moves, or using fewer moves thanks to better algorithms?

My novice understanding is that it's the former. The algorithms haven't changed very much in the past 20 years or so, maybe a few variations that are more ergonomic. After learning all the algs, it's a matter of improving look-ahead (making sure you know what alg to perform next while your current is wrapping up) and otherwise increasing your turns per second (TPS).

The records dropped quite drastically a few years back, which is likely coming from advancements in cubing hardware. Adding magnets to prevent overshoot while turning helped people speed up quite a bit.

SnooSux··on Ask HN: What's your web routine? which sites etc. do you frequent besides HN?
NYT for news.

Hackaday for interesting usually hardware projects. But a lot of articles are covering stuff from a few days earlier.

I try to stay away from Reddit for the most part.

I have an RSS feed of mostly AI and Tech blogs from big companies. I could probably curate it some more.

SnooSux··on Meta's A.I. exodus: Top talent quits as lab tries to keep pace with rivals
IMO their area of expertise is in software and tooling. The fact that they maintain PyTorch is a big deal and I've used a few of their other libraries like Detectron and torch-points3d and some have become an integral part of my work.
SnooSux··on Convert curl commands to code in several languages
Instead of exploring different languages learn about different fields and domains. The language may be basically the same (outside of some more esoteric ones), but Data Science is a very different experience from Web Dev which is different from Embedded Systems. Get out of your comfort zone a little.
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