jcims 1 hour ago

My scroll wheel covers about 12 states per inch of travel. Did the stubby pencil work and it would take about 9.5 years to scroll through them all if the wheel surface was moving at the speed of light.

zetanor 5 minutes ago

Sweet, can I mint these as NFTs? I don't know how to multiply 43252003274489856000 by 50 USD but I think it could make me a lot of money.

nzealand 10 minutes ago

It took Ernő Rubik four years to develop the cube.

He immediately scrambled it, then spent the next month figuring out if it could be solved.

Luckily no one told him there were 43 quintillion valid combinations.

richstokes 5 minutes ago

First thought; this could be turned into a really cool password generator

Waterluvian 2 hours ago

Ah nice, it has some of my favourites!

  • r4ndomname 1 hour ago

    I am very curious about your other favorites it does but have.

    • Waterluvian 1 hour ago

      My kids had a science battle in the basement last summer, which resulted in both their Rubik’s Cubes colliding mid air. They both exploded (the cubes, not the kids) and were reassembled at a “fix this before mom finds us” rush speed.

      I think my favourite is this pattern my 9 year old makes on “Greeny” (that’s his pet name for the cube that now has 11 green squares) where all four top corners are red/white/blue.

netvarun 1 hour ago

Wow, this was really fun to play around with! Amazing execution and launch!

Quick feedback: it’d be great if the page updated when the URL changes, so you can explore different positions without reloading.

Right now, if I change the URL/hash of the cube position (eg: incrementing by 1 https://everycube.alen.is/?view=3d#5319001606686939024 ), the app doesn’t update and I have to open the new URL in a separate tab to see the new position. [Chrome 150 on Mac OS X 10.15.7]

  • Alen123 1 hour ago

    just shipped a fix, the app now listens for hash/URL changes and updates the view without needing a reload. thanks for catching this!

PaulHoule 1 hour ago

Reminds me of that time when, as an undergraduate, my "team" entered a Problem Solving Competition and couldn't choose one of the two problems so we did both in parallel.

One of us wrote a program in BASIC on a Tandy 1000 that the rest of us estimated would take more than a google years to finish, but he wasn't be dissuaded and let it run the whole weekend.

I made an analysis that was mostly correct but was off by a factor of four because I mistook a radius for a diameter.

cr125rider 2 hours ago

I love this. Excellent weird internet thing.

cuoder 24 minutes ago

Non-AI posts be like

donkeylazy456 1 hour ago

literally doom scrolling

  • Alen123 1 hour ago

    haha healthiest possible doom scroll though

khazhoux 57 minutes ago

At some point though, how many states is too many?

We have massive housing affordability and employment shortage problems, meanwhile here’s a tech elite flouting 4x10^9 states which he doesn’t pay taxes on and most of them will not even get used. Is that really fair?

  • DerekL 31 minutes ago

    It's actually about 4x10^19 (exponent 19, not 9).