blakesley

Whoa, this post is actually really inspiring! It gives me a better understanding for why Echo Chess has more replayability than other lil' games I've toyed with. It makes me want to poke at new ideas now. Thanks for sharing this crazy journey of yours!

I guess I also want to ask: are you making money on this? Like, how do you have this much time to spend on this project?

This is great! It's definitely more Rubik's than crossword, though. Those Rubik's tricks are coming in handy.

> Squashing makes the diffs much more painful, such as by burying an important change in a sea of mechanical ones when they were originally in separate commits.

Can you give an example? I don't even think I understand what you're saying. You control your overall summary, so it's up to you to make it useful.

I would cite clarity as my reason for squashing! I think most people are just bad at organizing (& naming) their commits, so they make A LOT of vacuous ones, crowding out the forest for the trees. It's never helpful to see the git blame saying things like "Addressed PR comments" or "Resolved merge conflict", etc.

I do prefer a merge commit when the author has done a good job with their own commits, but that's rare. In all other cases, squashing is greatly preferable to me.

Regarding Python: Really? Obviously v2-to-v3 was an absolute fiasco, but since then, it's been great in my personal experience.

Don't get me wrong: Python hasn't overcome its tooling problem, so there's still that barrier. But once your team agrees on a standardized tool set, you should be able to coast A-OK.

> So many companies no longer pay dividends. So many classes of stock are now non-voting shares.

This seems normal to me. (I'm in my late 30s) Dividends aside, you're saying you used to do a lot of voting and now, in 2023, you're not anymore?

> What else would you do? Play video games, watch tv, “party”?

Sorry, but this is such a sad statement to me. I mean, unless you absolutely love the field you work in, in which case that's amazing, go for it! But if you're like the rest of us, there's so much to see & do in life besides work! As an example, I'm reading, learning to cook, traveling, and trying to get fit. These provide their own satisfaction & meaning in ways that work doesn't.

DFM? Google searches for it aren't turning up anything relevant.

Maybe you're really good at working with uncertainty?

This article focuses on the number of new things overwhelming our working memory, but I'd argue another big problem is the difficulty of leveraging abstractions even if you don't understand them.

In this exercise, both myself and the article get sidetracked in understanding the basis of all the abstractions as well, rather than just letting the abstractions be, with all of their uncertainty. But if I were better at the latter, I could see this approach working.

I agree, but it can also be true that there are so many things wrong with the points being made that it's hard to construct a response.

Nice! I was having fun with it, but then I got to "divide the segment in half". It's super easy, but it's too zoomed in for me to click on the snaps I want, and I can't find a way to zoom out. Clicking "full screen" gives the same level of zoom. What am I missing?

Edit: I just now tried Euclidea for the 1st time, and even tho its UX is a lot more polished, it starts off with lots of lines & midpoints. I appreciate that Ecocoru starts off with more circle-oriented problems, so that we can get a taste of using a compass. The 1st hexagon problem, though easy, was a joy to discover!

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Edit: My bad, I missed a legit link in parent comment. That said, that link should have been front & center. (Edit 2: it now is. Good on you!)

That's certainly important, but again, there's just so many pieces to cooking that experienced cooks don't even think about anymore, but are still uncertain & awkward to noobs.

Btw, your response implies that you deny this point, but I don't understand why that would be. Most activities are this way. People aren't born knowing how to play sports or use computers or make art, whatever. Cooking is no exception.

Anyway, thanks for the rec, I'll definitely check out Adam's recipe vids (I'm more familiar with his non-recipe vids)