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Hello fellow Tetris nerd with a -sort username :)

On the topic of reflexes decaying (I'm getting there, in my late 30s): Have you played Stackflow? It's a number go up roguelite disguised as an arcade brick stacking game, but the gravity is low enough that it is effectively turn based. More about 'deck' building, less about chaining PCs and C-Spins.

Very cool! I am a good Tetris player (in the top 10% of players) and wanted to give brick yeeting against an LLM a spin.

Some feedback: - Knowing the scoring system is helpful when going 1v1 high score

- Use a different randomization system, I kept getting starved for pieces like I. True random is fine, throwing a copy of every piece into a bag and then drawing them one by one is better (7 bag), nearly random with some lookbehind to prevent getting a string of ZSZS is solid, too (TGM randomizer)

- Piece rotation feels left-biased, and keeps making me mis-drop, like the T pieces shift to the left if you spin 4 times. Check out https://tetris.wiki/images/thumb/3/3d/SRS-pieces.png/300px-S... or https://tetris.wiki/images/b/b5/Tgm_basic_ars_description.pn... for examples of how other games are doing it.

- Clockwise and counter-clockwise rotation is important for human players, we can only hit so many keys per second

- re-mappable keys are also appreciated

Nice work, I'm going to keep watching.

Ruby 3.0 6 years ago

Ruby has definitely helped me get through some rough and tight spots. So many things are easily able to bum me out, while Ruby goes out of its way to make me happy.

Welcome home. Things are going to be fine. Don't worry about nonsense. Just `:chill`

A beloved safety blanket that makes it easy and fun to do boring everyday tasks.

Not very good keyboard player here: higher than ~~8ms is annoying for playing/recording. But 50ms probably isn't bad if say, you're blasting a message through a factory intercom, or piping music through a dental office, or stuff like that.

It's becoming more common to not ever SSH into machines

This is a reality for me. At work we run a handful of distributed clusters, if anyone does an equivalent of sshing into a box and poking around (in our case, `kubectl exec`), the infrastructure team gets an alert, then follows up with whoever invoked the command. If they are doing debugging, we shift whatever resources they need into dev. If they are not debugging, they will probably get questioned by their boss. (fortunately, most of the time this chat results in, "oh wow I didn't know about the APM/Metrics/Graphs/Logs/etc setup we had, I'll check that next time)

Nope. That quote was lifted from Amazon.com meta tags.

If I were to guess at what companines might rival Amazon in having the biggest selection, my top 3 would be: eBay, Alibaba, Rakuten.

- Safeway and BMW don't tout theirselves as, "Earth's biggest selection of books, magazines, music, DVDs, videos, electronics, computers, software, apparel & accessories, shoes, ..." like Amazon does. They don't even claim to be the biggest selection of groceries/autos.

- Safeway and BMW aren't known as "The Everything Store"

- You can buy Toyotas at a BMW dealership. They will be used, but they're there.

I still end up using a sophisticated note app (AnyList) for remembering spinach. Real-enough-time syncing with my non-techie significant other's phone is pretty great, the latency is low enough that we divide and conquer at the grocery store.

When I take meeting notes, I end up using OneNote or Google Docs:

- I have a tree of `Who - What` (and the counter-bikeshedding).

- Images of block diagrams sneak in, especially if it's a planning or design meeting.

- Full text search is handy, one-note especially spoiled me by doing OCR

- I like GDocs in particular for the real-enough-time collaboration. It can help quieter people not get steamrolled in conversation, especially if you have a boisterous note-taker to speak up for them :)

Even if they did, just going off of experience with other software projects, my gut says the docs are obsolete before you're* even able to download them.

*someone from the commonwealth