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The disintegrating cube

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Here's the current world record cube, 33x33x33 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqJC3YxfcyM&t=0s

As with all such cubes, it's borderline unusable but still an interesting challenge.

There's also a link there to buy one:

https://oliverstickers.com/puzzles/sls-puzzles/33x33x33.html

... for only €15200 :-)

What's the record for cubes with uniformly cube-sized pieces ?

I don't think the geometry lets you go above 5 or maaaybe 6.

That was [2015].

This might be the same person [2016]: showing a more successful build: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzzD1aNsLVU

The concept looks the same: corners are big squares, edges are rectangles with an inner 20x20 of small squares.

Turning it is still delicate and fiddly, requiring some pieces to be massaged into place, but it's not disintegrating.

That is indeed the same Youtube channel, and the person mentions that it was their third attempt. And it was a world record!

I'm glad the story has a happy ending. Really amazing perseverance. After a failed 7-month build, I don't know if I would have had the strength to try again.

I wonder if it is faster to solve it by turning, or by disassembling and reassembling in the solved state.

The greatest accomplishments also tend to come with the greatest risks. If you don't try, you won't fail. You also won't succeed.

> Its creator, who remains thankfully anonymous

What's that supposed to mean? The post pretends to celebrate failure, yet subtly mocks this builder multiple times.

Can anyone explain to me how a print fails this spectacularly? I print a lot in petg, and maybe this was pla or abs, but ive never seen anything just self detonate into a million shards like that before, and I have more travesties with prints than I can count.

It's a rubix cube right? It has to be made of many pieces to start with.

It's not one print, it's thousands of tiny prints that have been assembled

Consider that cheap 3x3 Rubik's cubes will explode if you turn them fast, and hit a snag in the alignment!

The video itself is very interesting. But why link to this self reflective blog post which isn't really about the video?

The video formed the analogy that was the metaphorical backbone of the article. I thought it was interesting and I probably wouldn’t have watched the video if not for the blog post.

Because promoting one's activities by referencing more interesting/popular activities is a common marketing strategy.

You likely wouldn't have read the blog post, if it was more accurately headlined "some musings on life".

Related: his most popular post of all time is about George R R Martin. Kind of proves my point.

It's interesting to me that Alec says his blog is not very profitable. I'm reading the "The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide" and John states that a blog is a really good way to improve your software career. I'm sold on his arguments. However I'm also aware that he has an atypical career that might not be reproducible be everyone.

I wonder if Alec's blog has helped him more than he realized but in indirect ways?

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