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modernpink··on Show HN: A new daily word puzzle
RIP CHOCOLATE BALK BRED

Using all letters giving a score of 227/380

There should be some hints on how to increase my score? Is this based on the word rarity?

modernpink··on Show HN: Test your shape rotation skills
12 matches on my first go. Not very impressive, but likely an indicator of my middling IQ.
modernpink··on How to write better scientific code in Python?
> I think to any audience other than fairly hardcore software engineers this is going to read a little... mad

So most of what gets posted to HN?

modernpink··on SoftBank's Sale of Arm to Nvidia Collapses, Arm to IPO
A lot of these seem to be consumer retail, e-commerce or housing related which says a lot about the UK economic landscape. Hardly the kind of company ARM would want to be swimming amongst.
modernpink··on Long-term visa for remote workers
There are no trees in Iceland. It's fine to look at for a week and the northern lights are a novelty, but the US and Canada (even California alone) offer much much more in terms of nature.
modernpink··on Nuanced communication usually doesn't work at scale
You've found yourself in the "95%"
modernpink··on I cannot begin to tell you how proficient I am in Microsoft Word
No self respecting 'nerd' would be using Word.
modernpink··on More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest numbers in 50 years
That is outrageous if true. An airborne virus is best treated with ventilation (i.e. opening windows). Surface transmission almost never happens [1]. The irony of course being that having a cleaner go in and out of rooms poses much greater risk of spread.

[1] COVID-19 rarely spreads through surfaces. So why are we still deep cleaning? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00251-4

modernpink··on Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night
We're moving to a future where fewer humans are necessary to run economies. The trend of the future is smaller and more prosperous populations doing more meaningful activities, rather than a future of slum-ponzi-ism where an ever increasing amount of bodies are needed to fuel economic growth.
modernpink··on Kintsugi – Art of Repair
Are the pictures of bowls from that period repaired with this technique on the Wikipedia pages enough as historical references or are you looking for something else?
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