I once lived in a damp limestone house where a gust of wind would scatter papers off the kitchen table with all the doors and windows shut.

One winter night the temp dropped below 5°C for the third or fourth time in a century. Unprepared, I considered the usual options: head in the oven or write code. I chose code. I built a blanket fort, tinkered with Electron a bit, considered the oven option again, and finally got my space heater going:

  taskset -c 0-15 yes > /dev/null &

Worked surprisingly well.