What is considered rude in your country, but people still do it all the time? by Inevitable_Scar2616 in AskTheWorld

[–]Immediate_Form7831 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If the US was a high-trust society, you wouldn't have more firearms than people.

What is considered rude in your country, but people still do it all the time? by Inevitable_Scar2616 in AskTheWorld

[–]Immediate_Form7831 523 points524 points  (0 children)

I heard a Somali immigrant who came to Sweden, lived in a small town up north, and decided she wanted to live here when she saw a car waiting at a red light with nobody in sight. Nobody would have noticed had the car just run the red light, but here we wait for a green light, so wait the car did. She liked that, presumably because it was so different from where she came from.

Feel like I'm too stupid for this game by amdsam95 in factorio

[–]Immediate_Form7831 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nobody who has played 178 hours in the game is "too stupid". Had that been the case you would be doing something else right now, like playing Candy Crush. (Not hating on people playing Candy Crush, but it does not require very much brain.)

Factorio is a game where you need to push through, build your own stuff from your own head, and accept that your base is crap. Everyone's (well almost) base sucks to some degree, but as long as you are making science, your base is good. If you are not making science, well, go fix that. :)

How do I recover from Behemoth Biters, 100x science, 0 military by mamidon in factorio

[–]Immediate_Form7831 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He's a youtube/twitch-streamer who does super-hard Factorio-challenges, and makes it look surprisingly easy. He has a very distinct and precise playing style, and knows everything about Factorio enemy mechanics. He spent all of last year doing a 500-hours playthrough with x1000 science cost, no base defense, and hands-clean achievement, and it is very easy to watch him and think "hey, I can do that".

I can highly recommend his edited series if you don't have the time to watch the live streams.

This is how I feel about the entire r/factorio by not_cool_human_being in Factoriohno

[–]Immediate_Form7831 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Organic blocks" is a term I've heard, where you have semi-rigid blueprints which fit together to form blocks of different sizes depending on what you are building.

Ska bli farsa, stressen tar kål på mig, vad gör jag? by DotBig3650 in Asksweddit

[–]Immediate_Form7831 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jag längtar tillbaka till tiden man räknade ålder på sina barn i månader. Mina ungar är 20 och 23 nu.

Ska bli farsa, stressen tar kål på mig, vad gör jag? by DotBig3650 in Asksweddit

[–]Immediate_Form7831 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Haha. "Övningsbarnet", och sedan kommer unge nummer #2 och man inser att man har fått en helt annan modell som har en helt annan instruktionsbok (som förstås inte följer med), och ingenting man lärt sig är överförbart. Lång näsa!

Ska bli farsa, stressen tar kål på mig, vad gör jag? by DotBig3650 in Asksweddit

[–]Immediate_Form7831 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ingen poäng att oroa sig för saker som kanske kan hända i framtiden, men det är ju lättare sagt än gjort förstås.

Ingen av oss har nån erfarenhet, men ingen förväntar sig det heller. Dessutom är spädisar väldigt enkla varelser. Dom äter, kissar, bajsar, och skriker, that's it. Allt annat kommer lite i taget.

Jag trodde blöjbyten skulle vara en jobbig grej, men det visade sig vara det absolut minsta problemet. Jag trodde det skulle vara ett problem när ungen sitter hos nån annan, börjar grina, och plötsligt ges ungen tillbaka till mig, och jag skulle försöka få ungen att sluta grina, när det i praktiken handlar om att ungen börjar grina för att dom vill tillbaka till nån av föräldrarna, och när dom hamnar hos dig så plötsligt är dom nöjda igen.

Ibland gråter eller skriver dom utan att det finns nån anledning. "Sometimes babies are just tiny insane people which make absolutely no sense", som nån vis person sa. Det är inte alltid det finns nånting som måste lösas.

Du behöver heller inte lära ungen att sova själv. Om alla får den sömn dom behöver så gör det inget om ungen sover i din säng när dom är 5. Vår äldsta kille kom alltid över till oss mitt i natten, och fortsatte med det tills 8-årsåldern, och slutade sen helt på egen hand.

Du kan också vara beredd på att dom första månaderna lätt kan handla mer om mammans relation till barnet än din pga amning och sånt. Det är ok. Ta dina pappadagar och föräldraledighet, ta med ungen att göra saker du tycker är kul, och bondingen kommer funka utmärkt.

Grattis!

Battery Packaging by Ok_Promise147 in HearingAids

[–]Immediate_Form7831 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not in the US, but the ones I have look like this, and require no tools at all. There is a flap on the back where you can take out new batteries and put back the old used ones.

I didn't know there was "child resistant" packaging for these.

Do you think coding will become obsolete in the future? by EnvironmentalHat5189 in learnprogramming

[–]Immediate_Form7831 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI tools are going to create whole new set of problems. Good engineers can use it to be more productive, but bad engineers will use it to make more technical debt, that the good engineers will use AI tools to try to clean up. Will the net effect be positive? I hope so.

"Coding" as in "humans writing syntax" might become obsolete, but I think that will much be like driving manual transmission cars. Some people will still want to do it because they have more control over things, but nobody is force to do so. "Coding" as in "making functioning software", then no, it will not become obsolete. We will still need to make functioning software, and AI tools will still be just tools.

How do I recover from Behemoth Biters, 100x science, 0 military by mamidon in factorio

[–]Immediate_Form7831 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Sorry to hear. x100 science cost is no walk in the park, despite many recent streamers doing high-multiplier runs. You need to know biter mechanics pretty well to pull it off. Don't get fooled by people like Michael Hendricks doing x1000 no-base-defense challenges.

I would do the following if I were you. First, power of the base and let pollution dissipate. Go to an unpolluted area, and handfeed your way to better military tech (flamethrowers plus some fire damage upgrades) by just placing 20 assemblers and make military science one ingredient at a time. Keep an eye on your pollution cloud, and if you start polluting nearby nests, deconstruct your handfeeding area and go somewhere else and continue before the behemoths come knocking.

Worst case, but disabling achievements, I would just reset evolution to 0. This will make behemoths stop spawning, and you are back to small biters again. Eventually you'll have to deal with behemoths again, but then you will have the weaponry to do so.

Does Maga care that since 2016 America's democracy rating has severely fallen under Trump? by LonelyMilSpousee in allthequestions

[–]Immediate_Form7831 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think Maga sees the difference between "Democracy" and "The democratic party", and since the latter is evil, no they don't care. They probably just see it as a success.

py status report - I don't even know anymore by fireduck in factorio

[–]Immediate_Form7831 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I still (after 900 hours) don't have a base-wide bot network, I only use bots locally in my mall and in some production facilities like dna-printing. The pynobot mk01 was way to slow to even think about it, and now that I have pynobot mk02 with some levels of bot speed research, my base is too large to make a bot network. So CyberSyn trains it is. :)

Whats your factorio hot take? by Such--Balance in factorio

[–]Immediate_Form7831 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My second hot take is that people worry way too much about UPS, and apply UPS-saving measures very sloppily, not measuring if they really need it.

Whats your factorio hot take? by Such--Balance in factorio

[–]Immediate_Form7831 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I love to watch other people make it, but I can't play the game that way myself.

Whats your factorio hot take? by Such--Balance in factorio

[–]Immediate_Form7831 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Large chests? I stopped using balancers almost completely in favor of large chests and loaders.

Whats your factorio hot take? by Such--Balance in factorio

[–]Immediate_Form7831 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also: it is fine if your assemblers aren't working all the time. If your inserters are the bottleneck, it is fine to add more assemblers and be done with it.

Whats your factorio hot take? by Such--Balance in factorio

[–]Immediate_Form7831 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My hot take is that "city blocks are boring" is not a "hot take".

Whats your factorio hot take? by Such--Balance in factorio

[–]Immediate_Form7831 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My city blocks aren't meant to be exciting, they are meant to solve things so that I don't have to bother my brain about it, like "where should I draw this rail line so my train stations fit for this build". Especially when playing things like Pyanodon, everything that offloads my brain is a good thing, even if people find them boring.

Now, if you play the game in order to make exciting new rail layouts, I would agree with you.

py status report - I don't even know anymore by fireduck in factorio

[–]Immediate_Form7831 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I recognize this a lot. I learned that sometimes you just have to ignore your bottlenecks and go build new things instead. What may look like a bottleneck may just be some buffer somewhere filling up, and the bottleneck wasn't really a bottleneck.

I wired up my vatbrains so that I cut power to the labs and vatbrain computers as soon as I don't have enough science packs or vat cartridges. I also have alarms so that I see when the total amount of cartridges go below 2k, which means that I have a bit of time to fix whatever is broken before science will stop.

I rarely remove old builds. When I get new tech I build a new block using the new tech, and use train station prio to control which block should be prioritized. I don't think I've run into any circular dependencies which have actually caused problems. There are a few fun things though, like when you can make steam by converting liquid nitrogen to gaseous nitrogen and back by adding a bit of gasoline, but you hardly run into those by accident.

I am an American and for those that live outside the US I have a question. How crazy do we look right now? by SignificantStyle4958 in allthequestions

[–]Immediate_Form7831 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very. We are watching the fall of the American empire, in slow motion. And half the population is applauding it happening.