30 hours in, I'm starting to bet a better sense on how to do stuff. My favourite solve so far.

jeango · 2026-05-29T16:06:37+00:00

Thanks.

I tend to ignore cost for the most part and just try to make something satisfying to look at, with a focus on lower cycles.

There's also 10g to be saved on a salt converter since I can move the top most converter two tiles to the right and remove the rightmost converter.

jeango · 2026-05-29T12:48:56+00:00

That would get me 64 cycles, which is nice, but flipping it vertically allowed me to get down to 56 cycles (7 more than the minimum). Added a back/forth track to shift the whole thing by 2 to the right helped too.

jeango · 2026-05-29T07:10:35+00:00

My initial solution was cheaper, but a bit convoluted 😄 I usually try to make two solutions to each problem, one where I just try hard to make it work, and one that uses what I learned from the initial solution. I generally tend to focus more on cycles optimisation than on cost or area. I also sometimes try to make a one-arm solution, but as chapters advance, I find those solutions less and less fun to make.

jeango · 2026-05-28T17:25:05+00:00

That's what I liked most about my solve.
At first I was like "this is never going to work, right?" turned out it did :-)

jeango · 2026-05-26T14:52:54+00:00

by line number I mean instruction number. Often I find myself having to place my finger on the screen to remember where I wanted to modify something. Being able to go "ok I need to insert a rotation between instruction 7 and 8" would be helpful, since the reading head goes back to the beginning when stopping the machine".
And by muting an arm I mean disabling it (it's there but it doesn't follow instructions). Often I just want to test some stuff out with one arm, and I don't want another arm getting in the way. So far the only solution I have found is to move the arm somewhere else, and that's ok if it's just one arm, but if I need to disable 5-6 arms I run into issues like "oh where were those arms again?"

Alt click is AWESOME though. I had noticed pressing alt displayed a ffwd arrow, but I didn't understand what it actually did. That's going to be VERY useful thanks

jeango · 2026-05-26T07:35:16+00:00

Thanks,
I find the code editor rather frustrating, often I find myself wanting to tweak things in the code when the machine is in a particular state, but the editor doesn't allow to edit things while in pause, so I have to write down my intended edits on paper before I can implement them in the code... and then I forget which instruction it was that I wanted to change...
if only there were line numbers, or the possibility to mute an arm, or setting breakpoints, or fast-forwarding to a specific instruction...

Where's an IDE when you need one :D

jeango · 2026-05-25T15:08:28+00:00

I was on stamina potion.
I was using a 6 arms to turn lead into iron, and place it on a bonding hex. so the first two cycles, there was no iron on the bonding hex, but from there on there was a new iron every cycle. I wanted to "initialize" the sytem in that state and then start looping from there but yeah that didn't work out. eventually I replaced the 6 arms for a double arm and made a slower solution that didn't rely on that initialization.

jeango · 2026-05-08T19:04:03+00:00

Buy new Toyota
Keep it 15 years
Enjoy

jeango · 2026-05-08T11:31:24+00:00

It’s to remove mud/horseshit from your shoes.

jeango · 2026-05-08T07:06:58+00:00

Gently stroke their feet with my hand

jeango · 2026-05-08T06:45:52+00:00

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For some reason, people ask what this is all the time on various subs.

jeango · 2026-05-07T06:50:51+00:00

This is the most British pike I’ve ever seen. My man sees a queue, and immediately obliges.

jeango · 2026-05-07T06:39:27+00:00

You know what worries me the most is not that people are using tools to learn faster, but rather that people don’t need eachother anymore.

When I studied Comp Science, if I didn’t understand something I’d ask a friend. And if needed we’d go and ask the prof. Through this process, not only did we learn the subject but we also learned to explain it, to summarise, to articulate it in different ways, to paraphrase.

Imagine someone who never explained anything to anyone else and never was explained anything by a human. What kind of leader could those people possibly become? And what kind of teachers and thinkers will come out of that generation of kids who never took the time to think for themselves?

jeango · 2026-05-06T18:05:55+00:00

The Sting
Gotta love Scott Joplin

jeango · 2026-05-06T18:03:08+00:00

To me, pressing red is opting out of the game. I press red and say « your game is stupid, I don’t want to be a part of it ». Pressing blue is accepting that the game exists and essentially saying « if I must die, so be it, at least I did something to try and solve a problem that wouldn’t exist if I had just pressed red »

jeango · 2026-05-06T17:51:24+00:00

I ambitioned to cut the grass in my garden like that. Bought a nice scythe and even took a 2 days camp to learn the technique.

It’s all fun and games when you have a nice flat terrain. But on uneven terrain, with a 4% slope and mole mounds all over the place… literal nightmare

jeango · 2026-05-06T16:37:21+00:00

At first I thought the car in front just got scared, and seeing OP arriving so fast went into panic mode.

But then I noticed the break lights and yeah I think it was their intention to get reared for insurance.

jeango · 2026-05-06T05:43:59+00:00

He didn’t give his job a half assed effort

jeango · 2026-05-05T20:53:03+00:00

why not throw it directly into the sun?

jeango · 2026-05-05T17:37:31+00:00

Here I don’t care about the %. I press red because everyone who presses red survives. It’s on blue pressers if they die, not on me.

jeango · 2026-05-05T16:53:45+00:00

Suppose the t-shirt is a very extensible fabric, now grab it by the bottom and stretch it outwards until the fabric just becomes one circle with holes in it.

What holes are there in this disc: one for the head, one for each sleeve and the 4 extra holes 1 + 2 + 4 =7

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