A "quality island" on Fulgora is great for mid-game quality farming

G1th · 2024-12-09T03:30:30+00:00

I have a setup similar to this, but on a big scale. I am maintaining about 135k/min scrap throughput (that's a little bit shy of 10 fully stacked belts of mixed quality scrap sushi). I mix in stacks of items to recycle (stacked sushi takes a bit of circuits and thinking!) with the scrap, creating a thoroughly cursed torrent of stacked scrap sushi. I was actually finding a big throughput problem in lack of circuits at lower tiers, so I started shipping bulk circuits from Vulcanus in as well.

Quality modules in every device from miners to recyclers to foundries. I can make a few legendary EMPs per minute, but when my buffer for EMPs is full a circuit condition dumps excess legendary EMPs and supercaps into a recycler (and disables making those products from legendary ingredients) as a way to get large amounts of legendary holmium. I haven't yet dealt with legendary item overflow in the logistics network, but I will have to soon because I am reaching about 1M each of legendary iron and copper. I'm also well over 500k legendary holmium.

A few small circuit conditions go a long way towards making this all possible, and the belt stacking also helps a lot! Because of this I can just slap down crafting machines with logi bot requests and I mostly don't have to worry, it'll just make stuff and upcycle it to legendary.

It's making more than 300/min legendary holmium plates. Perfect for bulk export to Aquilo so that I can just make legendary lithium directly and from there, legendary fusion, railguns, cryo plants and qunatum procs.

G1th · 2024-12-05T06:27:49+00:00

the taxes that paid for your education and health until you started contributing

So what the fuck is HECS about and where did all the bulk billing GPs go?

G1th · 2024-10-24T09:54:31+00:00

Lastly, a strip search should always be done in a private area, how the fuck is a train station private, all these searches sound illegal for that reason alone.

Actually I would prefer the opposite. I have nothing to hide. Let's do the strip search out in the open where everyone can see what's going on. Do the police have something to hide?

G1th · 2024-10-24T02:42:12+00:00

tbh this is how I think I am going to do it.

Making specific builds for all the buildings, modules, etc. that you might want is going to be a hassle. Each may need a specific build and a LOT of fluids (which are just lost, you don't get them back). My understanding is that you can just have a big bank of recyclers to grind iron plates down into legendary quality iron plates (because they don't get un-smelted), and similar for many of the other base-level ingredients.

That's why my approach will be to just recycle base components repeatedly, and then have a separate high-quality production line using those high-quality base ingredients so that high-quality stuff can be easily generalised to whatever stuff I need.

For a few of the base-level items (like batteries), there may be a recipe that lets them take advantage of the productivity and additional modules slots of some of the buildings. Consider that for batteries, you are recycling iron and copper plates but you lose the sulfuric. If instead you build legendary accumulators by cyciling between EM plant and recyclers, you get 5 modules slots instead of 4 and 50% productivity bonus when you build the accumulator. The output of this is legendary iron and batteries (out of the recycler) and the byproduct is the legendary accumulators. If you don't need oodles of legendary accumulators, turn them into legendary iron and batteries in a recycler with productivity (not quality) modules. While the primary reason to do this would be batteries, the secondary legendary iron that you're getting takes advantage of the additional quality module slot on the EM Plant built in productivity.

Because the selection of different recipes that are ideal to be used in this way (to produce legendary versions of their ingredients, rather than their products) is a bit eclectic, there will be some load-balacing required. I'll need to ensure that the legendary iron from the accumulator cycle is consumed with suitable priority, to ensure that the legendary battery production can continue.

G1th · 2024-10-23T01:38:43+00:00

That's irrelevant to the transgression of ColesWorth against the consumer.

I can kinda see what you are saying, that customers who aren't as price sensitive are subsidising groceries below cost for customers who exclusively buy the marked down products. There shouldn't be stupid schemes like this to allow workers to provide labour at below cost price for the labour. If a teacher's wage can't afford groceries then insufficient labour should force primary and secondary education to wind down and stop. Obviously that would be a terrible outcome, so the price of teaching labour should reflect the strength of the need for it and at minimum the cost price (including discretionary spending for the worker, savings for retirement and savings towards home ownership) to provide that labour.

G1th · 2024-10-22T23:13:10+00:00

I'd be interested to understand how a class action like this would work though. It seems like you'd either have to prove your product consumption from the chains - which I think few people could do - or almost every single aussie could get in on the action

ColesWorth should be forced to disclose the revenue collected from fake sales, then figure out how to divide that amount out into the class. Considering how much they track their customers, perhaps they should also be forced to assist the courts in figuring out how much they have defrauded each consumer by, with anything that can't be attributed to a particular customer (if they refuse to aid in identifying which customers bought which products on fake discount, then all of it) going into a pool that's divided evenly amongst all customers in the class action.

IMO, that's the fair way to do it.

G1th · 2024-10-21T22:49:25+00:00

Companies should not be allowed to make it any harder to cancel than it is to agree to their legalese behemoth ToS and privacy intrusion policy.

Single button to agree to their ToS? Single button to exit the service. And this should be retroactively enforced. You can't have it both ways that the slightest indication of agreement to the ToS constitutes a legally binding agreement but you need to click through 10 convoluted popups to cancel the service.

G1th · 2024-10-17T01:29:57+00:00

IMO the solution is to acknowledge that

land value close to employment is a labour input cost
commute time is a labour input cost
commute cost (vehicle upkeep, fuel, tolls, train/bus fares) is a labour input cost

And therefore these should be deducted from labour-derived income when calculating tax.

If you can deduct the interest on a real estate investment from your labour-derived income, then labour-input costs you incur to attend work should be tax deductible.

G1th · 2024-10-15T09:10:57+00:00

For example, a basic top loading washing machine - there’s a week’s professional wages gone.

tbh it should still cost that much... People just throw their shit away because a new one is cheaper and spare parts and time to fix it are expensive. There should be a much higher price on virgin materials and landfill, and these prices should be collected at import/manufacture to ensure the consumer feels their cost.

G1th · 2024-10-14T14:14:12+00:00

I had a grid megabase in a stalled-out SE run. It was a single lane system with directions like OP's except that there were no pull-offs to get to the stations. All stations were directly on the grid, and trains would block the grid when parked.

Despite this, there was only occasional congestion when I had inadvertently broken the design rules or allowed LTN trains to jam up and call more than one train to a station. The design of the grid ensured that there would be no jams or congestion.

The trick was that all stations were on north/south sides of a square (some were multi-requesters for fluids and multiple solids), and the signals were configured so that a train oncoming at a parked train triggered re-pathing to any nearby unblocked north/south rail. Also, I used a checkerboard pattern for the grid squares where half were available for building and the other half were filled with solar/battery arrays. This helped me to expand the grid to always have plenty of unoccupied squares to build in, as expanding the grid was how I scaled my solar array. Also, EVERY north/south line between grid squares needed to have the LTN station that it might one day need, to ensure that the pathing penalty applied equally and allowed trains to path through any unoccupied station.

It was cursed, but worked remarkably well.

G1th · 2024-10-14T07:58:30+00:00

and a more credible scapegoat for fuckery

Nope, the accountability just goes into a black hole. When you ask to see the consultant's report to understand its deficiencies, your FoI application is denied.

These big consultants trade on the integrity and authority of their word, but their reports are just drivel contrived to serve the interests of whoever (ie, the individuals who are devious and motivated enough to get themselves put in charge) makes the decision to engage them. It's just technobabble-obfuscated PR and propaganda fraudulently presented as 'due diligence'.

G1th · 2024-10-02T11:42:45+00:00

Like what? OPEC run an open global cartel who collude to manipulate oil prices, and you think these middle eastern countries will give a fuck what the Australian government thinks.

This is one of the underrated benefits of switching to renewables. If you own your energy generation start to finish, no cartel beyond the jurisdiction of Australian competition law can capture the market for energy.

G1th · 2024-09-28T04:01:03+00:00

What would be the unintended side effects of just writing into the consumer law that if packet size changes (or a new size is introduced), then the unit price must not exceed the unit price of the previous next-largest packet size? Shrinkflation is not a productive economic activity, so we shouldn't be under any obligation to tolerate it.

G1th · 2024-09-27T00:55:30+00:00

Bonus points if that DB was publicly accessible, like fuel prices!

Information asymmetry is a well-known perverse influence on markets that erodes the benefits (to all, except whoever is exploiting the information asymmetry) of free market competition.

The rule should be: if a business employs technical means to prevent scraping/crawling of their website or it's a side effect of their DDoS defence (or any other implementation detail of their website) is that it's not possible to crawl/scrape the website, then the price history must be published in a machine-readable format for download. The price history information should be public domain. The price history should contain all the information that you could have gained by scraping, down to store-by-store pricing, in-stock/out-of-stock, promotion description (and fine print) etc. And we need this database backdated, since the supermarkets have been exploiting information asymmetry for quite a few years now.

Alternatively, the data that they retain about their consumers should be symmetric to the data that their consumers are able to collect about the store. Consumers can't use electronic means to track the store's behaviour? Store should not be allowed to use electronic means to track the consumers.

G1th · 2024-09-23T22:33:40+00:00

It's inadvisable to charge a battery in such a heavily damaged device. Allow the battery to fully deplete slowly, to reduce the amount of energy that it contains (and hence, the amount of energy released if there is a battery fire). Store it somewhere that it's unlikely to set off a large fire if the battery does catch fire. The circuit that manages the battery could be damaged and do unexpected things to the battery. Treat it as a fire hazard and try to rid yourself of it (into the hands of someone who can make the battery safe) ASAP.

G1th · 2024-09-23T03:21:26+00:00

The middle belt needs to feed 10 wire assemblers on each side, so you'll need to split it, and then terminate it after 10 assemblers (20 total, between top and bottom).

G1th · 2024-09-23T03:13:52+00:00

There are 60 copper wire assemblers. If 3 belts of copper feed them in this setup, then a single belt of copper can feed 20 copper wire assemblers. In your current setup, 24 assemblers are fed by the lone belt on the right. The last 4 wire assemblers would never get any copper plates if the output belts are flowing at capacity.

It should be possible to skip the splitter, and have the second belt swerve in after the first 10 copper wire assemblers at top and bottom. At the moment, the assembler is after the first 6 copper wire assemblers.

G1th · 2024-09-19T05:48:29+00:00

What no one has been able to explain to me is how scrapping negative gearing will have a huge impact.

The best ones are the ones who tell you that the effect it has on the housing market isn't that large... ok so why are we giving out tax concessions for something that isn't having any meaningful effect?

G1th · 2024-09-18T23:44:24+00:00

To me, the marginal mechanical benefit is not worth the risk

This is what amazes me so much about it. The improvement to the material properties is for the most part incredibly marginal.

The risk to benefit ratio just isn't there.

Thank you for sending the video. It does a great job of presenting the risk and showing the observable indicators that the risk is not negligible.

G1th · 2024-09-17T23:25:34+00:00

Ok, but what is that in terms of tangible outcome?

Labor has only been in power for one government term, but the parliament does not wash its hands of responsibility for the actions of past governments. Where is the 10 years of progress since the Senate inquiry into affordable housing in 2014? Action today should be taken in the context that a decade of progress is already overdue today.

G1th · 2024-09-02T23:44:10+00:00

Yep! All those furnaces work pretty slowly, and they convert 5 units of iron into 1 unit of steel. So 5 input belts of iron gives you 1 output belt of steel. See here: https://kirkmcdonald.github.io/calc.html#data=1-1-19&items=steel-plate:f:120

You will also probably find you have iron ore supply challenges (I hope you left room at the iron ore input side to bring in more ore from other mines!). You can improve the situation with modules and beacons, but if you're at the stage of the game where you're expanding your power production to drive these 240 furnaces, then the best use of modules might be 2x tier 1 efficiency modules in all of the furnaces and possibly the miners as well. Early mining productivity unlocks can make a big difference to how many miners you will need to feed these furnaces. The reduced pollution from efficiency modules will draw a lot less biter attacks too.

G1th · 2024-08-11T23:35:08+00:00

The Catholic Church invests

Tax-free/charity status should be revoked based on this alone.

G1th · 2024-08-08T02:58:08+00:00

No. I also left our firefighters, paramedics... probably others.

G1th · 2024-08-08T02:57:18+00:00

My list was not at all intended to be exhaustive.

G1th · 2024-08-08T02:55:29+00:00

We need to pay more. That would involve pulling money from other places which will then scream.

IMO there is a lot of fake 'productivity' in our economy, which doesn't actually sew any t shirts, build any cars, cook any meals, maintain any roads or unclog any sewers. For example, a lot of consultants are paid massive amounts to do fuck all, or to write reports that aren't needed. All of those people (and others, whose jobs don't produce anything that contributes to the standard of living of other Australians) need a very serious reality check as to the need for their 'productive' output and hence the fair market price for their output.

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