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IMO it's still fun to hand-write C and Makefiles targeting an extremely resource-constrained device that's connected to an oscilloscope and a gunshot-wound worth of capacitance on your bench. YMMV

Sometimes doing the thing is just doing a thing and then you get done with some milestone on the thing, you're like "why am I doing this thing. am I crazy for undertaking this thing?"

And yeah you probably are. Only in retrospect will it be knowable if it was worth it or not. Perseverance is necessary but rarely sufficient.

Like others I found the concise implementation to be impressive! I have noticed a bug though. Using the "drive into the corner" strategy (I keep the high tile in the bottom left) sometimes the top left tile randomly gets a smaller value (e.g., goes from 16 -> 4) when I slide to the left.

OP mentions housekeeping as part of his benefits. I also have had an every-other-week maid service for the past decade or so, and for me, it is a huge lifestyle improvement. The amount of time and cognitive overhead it saves is enormous.

I have paid less than $200/mo for this. In terms of cost, this isn't anything like having a nanny, your house paid off, or retiring at age 50. But it's interesting that for this guy, it's on the same list as those things.

In sum: I highly recommend deploying a couple hundred bucks a month to pay someone to do house chores if you have a hard time motivating yourself to do it or have housemates/partners you have to spend time arguing about it with.

A random dimensional analysis that I find amusing about fuel consumption units:

liters / 100 km => m^3 / m => m^2

(volume) / (distance) => (area)

This can be interpreted as the cross-sectional area of a hypothetical trough of fuel running alongside the road, whose contents you slurp up and consume in your engine as you pass (in lieu of using fuel stored in an onboard reservoir).

I'm surprised at how even some of the smartest people in my life take the output of LLMs at face value. LLMs are great for "plan a 5 year old's birthday party, dinosaur theme", "design a work-out routine to give me a big butt", or even rubber-ducking through a problem.

But for anything where the numbers, dates, and facts matter, why even bother?

It never fails to amaze me how tasteless and unimaginative your run-of-the-mill rich asshole is. Without even getting into housing, education, or whatever other feel-good virtue-signalling—this is seriously the coolest toy you can think to buy with 10e8-9 USD?

A mechanism for filtering by language or searching by keyword would be nice.

Attempting to operate in a space where 100x more money than you can muster is willing to burn itself operating in the same space.

For anyone who has ever had the laptop out in the garage next to the CNC machine, yeah, no, those things are extremely onerous.

You're in the machine shop outside of town and you literally have everything you need locally to make the computer drive the 4000lb hunk of cast iron around to cut the hunk of metal into the shape and then when you open your laptop Fusion 360 randomly decides you're not logged in and you need to 2FA to get to your own damn data that's local to your box—except there is no cell service here.

Fuck. B-double-e-double-r-U-N beer run! Bring the laptop into town and make a hotspot at the gas station so you can get back into your damn cloud account and then drive back to the shop in the hills and finally send G-code to the mill. Using data and software you had on your laptop the whole damn time.

Looks like that cut isn't finishing up until 3am.

The point is, you're doing an activity that doesn't require the internet. When an application that provides functionality that doesn't require internet connectivity introduces a hard dependency on the internet, it's user-hating design, plain and simple.

> No online account.

Among the nerds, the backlash has started. Watch out, Fusion 360.

In the world of doing stuff with atoms, no one ever wanted their drafting table to have authentication, ACL, 2FA, or storage/backup.