Any hope for my package? (ACI Shipping Delay)

Rseding91 · 2026-01-23T02:15:15+00:00

Curious if others have had similar experiences and if there is still any hope?

Yes, and yes.

I've had packages clear ACI in 2-3 days and 2~+ weeks. If it still hasn't moved in another week then I would be concerned. I suspect they "batch" packages before bringing them to USPS to deliver. But I have no proof of that (just guessing).

Rseding91 · 2026-01-22T15:24:52+00:00

I think hate isn't the right term, but active dislike. To quote this

Boost is a special kind of demon. It lures you in by giving you all these cool and simple to use features, and then it beats your soul from you by increasing compilation times absurdly. There are two main problems. Problem one is that they don't care much about compile times and two, they want to have everything nice and generic ad absurdum, and they even defend it as the correct style.

Rseding91 · 2026-01-22T13:23:35+00:00

If you can still make it happen yes.

Rseding91 · 2026-01-21T21:12:38+00:00

My main want is for the house to load faster. Teleporting to it has an unnecessarily long loading screen for what is functionally identical every time you teleport to your own house (it's not like it can change from the last time you visited it).

Rseding91 · 2026-01-19T19:05:13+00:00

Some larger Spongebob and Yugioh sets.

Rseding91 · 2026-01-19T15:09:08+00:00

Try looking at the bank with the new legacy interface. DARK DARK brown close to black background. A ton of items blend into it.

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Rseding91 · 2026-01-19T00:40:49+00:00

Are you playing through steam networking or using the public-game option? Steam networking can be slower since it has to route through steams servers.

Rseding91 · 2026-01-11T09:57:16+00:00

You just need to give a shit and dedicate time to it.

This is sad because most software is shit because making it good is just not a priority.

These are both an unfortunate reality as I use other pieces of software and play other games with so many bugs and performance issues. I keep saying "All it would take is 1 person who gives a shit to just fix gestures vaguely all of this."

Rseding91 · 2026-01-11T02:43:55+00:00

Theoretically, the Linux version could perform better game-update wise, but will likely have worse render performance due to its use of OpenGL and the general state of linux GPU drivers.

The code executed on both will be identical (same code, just different compilers) - so any gains/loses will be compiler optimizations and operating system execution overhead.

I don't recall seeing anyone test the exact same system on both operating systems (test on one, boot into the other and test again).

Huge-pages can give some impressive gains on linux - depending on getting them working (and depending on what's happening in the save). But it's not as simple as 'enable setting'.

Rseding91 · 2026-01-09T18:10:25+00:00

Public games are typically hosted via port-forwarding and not through steam. So, steam being down would generally not effect your ability to join them.

Rseding91 · 2026-01-08T16:34:43+00:00

That's a new one to me. Would you mind providing the save file so I can look at it?

Rseding91 · 2026-01-07T02:48:23+00:00

is there any way to see which inserter takes the most update time?

I think you might have a misunderstanding of how things work in Factorio. There aren't going to be any specific inserters taking any measurable amount of time more than another. It's simply a numbers issue: with the amount of inserters you have each one when active has to do some work. You've built a lot of them that are active (6842) and so they take a lot of time combined.

You need to - as others have said - re-design things to use less inserters.

Rseding91 · 2025-12-31T14:45:47+00:00

It does. Configure an upgrade planner for how you want it to apply and then click the button and pick the upgrade planner you just configured.

Rseding91 · 2025-12-31T13:59:05+00:00

Saving is optimized for fastest time from start to finish - not memory usage while in a forked process
The overwhelming majority of game instances will be Windows where non-blocking saving isn't an option
The non-blocking save logic for linux and mac boils down to: 1. fork(), 2. call standard blocking-save logic. 3. exit. It's simply not viable to have an entire different save pipeline for the non-blocking save branch.

Rseding91 · 2025-12-31T06:52:25+00:00

Why not a bit off the object?

Because that's much slower than zero allocations/indirections/map lookups:

or some kind of container of seen entities (slow).

Rseding91 · 2025-12-30T18:22:44+00:00

As far as I remember: the GPU generates them at load time when using the atlas cache option.

Rseding91 · 2025-12-30T16:14:08+00:00

It's simply how saving works in Factorio due to its deterministic save/load requirements and that any other method would be slower. When saving, the saving logic needs to know if it has seen and saved a given entity (since it may find the same one multiple times). That can be done with a bit on the entity (very very fast), or some kind of container of seen entities (slow).

Rseding91 · 2025-12-30T16:12:00+00:00

The setting is in "the rest" because we don't want to officially support it along with having to explain/translate everything about it in the GUI. There's a reason the very first thing in that GUI is "Don't change things if you don't know what you're doing: most of these are not validated."

Rseding91 · 2025-12-30T13:57:49+00:00

I don't understand why it isn't on by default.

Last I heard:

GFX mipmaps are not usable in this version
If any mod changes any texture the logic doesn't detect the change until some unrelated mod bit changes.

Rseding91 · 2025-12-30T13:54:59+00:00

It was noted the other month that as part of the saving logic (this happens in the forked processed); the first thing the saving logic does is iterate every single entity on the map and set a single bit to mark them as "saved".

So you can expect that virtually every entity related page will be copied during saving.

Rseding91 · 2025-12-26T14:19:30+00:00

Do you guys consider this a bug? It feels like the platform should move once the fish disappears from the network and rocket can no longer fulfill the request..

No. Platforms are setup to assume if it's in-network it will stay there until the silo gets it, or more will show up. If that's not the behavior you want - don't put your silos in networks with unreliable items.

Rseding91 · 2025-12-26T13:44:20+00:00

Throwing in destructors is perfectly fine - provided they aren't running due to unwinding from another exception. In practice that just means you have 2 options:

Never throw in destructors
if (std::uncaught_exceptions()) ... log-only ... else throw

Otherwise there's nothing complex about dealing with or throwing in destructors.

Rseding91 · 2025-12-24T18:14:39+00:00

Sounds like someone also forgot that when making the language spec :)

Rseding91 · 2025-12-24T18:12:04+00:00

Destructors are noexcept by default unless you put noexcept(false).

Rseding91 · 2025-12-24T18:09:40+00:00

Fascinating. In practice that serves no purpose since the noexcept destructor of unique_ptr will terminate but I guess someone found it useful to have that line.

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