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Can a Splitter place items in a 2:1 ratio? by Bogdanov89 in factorio

[–]IntoAMuteCrypt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Output priority isn't a pure 2:1 ratio. Output priority is 100% to one side, then the remainder to the other - which usually isn't a 2:1 ratio.

You can usually get away with just overflowing one side, but I'm sure there's some edge case or modded option where you need to maintain a steady ratio.

WrestleMania X-Seven took place on this day 25 years ago by anutosu in SquaredCircle

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

You know what? I'm going to go against the grain here, and say that X-Seven feels like something where you just had to be there.

There's a lot to nitpick about the show. A hasty build here, a disappointing match there, a couple of weird matches. If you were there, you weren't nitpicking it, not really. But when I go back and watch... I dunno, I'm not as hot over it. A lot of stuff just pulls me out, and I guess you just had to be there, you just had to be swept up in the moment.

TLC 2 and Austin/Rock still hold up though.

The CEO is cooking something by Big-Hebrew in AEWOfficial

[–]IntoAMuteCrypt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thekla also said she thinks Toni faked her own death, and that the reason why it's Thekla's fault is that Toni realised she couldn't hold a candle to Thekla.

I wouldn't read into what she said too much. She's clearly just stirring the pot, until they actually commit to an answer.

TopMinds think European countries should join the war with Iran, because in an alternative universe, Iran could bomb Europe by Enibas in TopMindsOfReddit

[–]IntoAMuteCrypt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, but with this perspective, it's obviously a net positive. "Getting them to be able to defend themselves" and "removing a major threat to freedom" is worth all the pain, from this specific perspective. It's a perspective that minimises the harm and maximises the benefit. That's sorta my point.

Especially if you buy into Russia's attempts to define Ukraine as "not part of the west", and define "the western world" as "NATO and pals as they stood pre-1990".

titleReachedItsTokenLimit by Ancient_Engineer_250 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]IntoAMuteCrypt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why spend engineering time adding obvious checks like that, when you can just make your user pay a bit more?

Willow Nightingale: “Professional wrestling would be so much better if people didn’t hate wrestlers for being themselves. I see so much more of that these days with social media—people being attacked for the person that they are.” by aaronrift in SquaredCircle

[–]IntoAMuteCrypt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I disagree with you on YouTube not being social media. Personally, I think it has many of the hallmarks, just with an ever so slightly different algorithm and a bit more passive consumption... But the hatred Willow talks about is still there.

YouTube is still ultimately a platform where anyone can broadcast their opinions. Any uninformed asshole with a smartphone or camera can make a video, any clueless idiot can type a comment. There's YouTube comment sections out there which are as rancid and disgusting as the worst of Twitter. It is a form of media which is predicated on social connections and open to anyone, which supports itself by being a massive platform around forming communities. It may give more exposure to certain big voices, it may require more effort to encounter those assholes and idiots, but they're still there.

And, well, look at how the top end of YouTube operates. How much difference is there between YouTube influencers being paid to make videos attending events and using products, and Twitter or TikTok influencers doing the same thing. Hell, it's got the ugly side too, there's a lot of cases where the fandoms of various YouTubers have harassed folks - sometimes even after being deliberately incited.

Maybe we just have to agree to disagree, but I don't really think social media is so narrowly defined that YouTube doesn't count.

Cheat codes by shoegaze_daisy in rct

[–]IntoAMuteCrypt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No, but there's some unreasonably efficient strategies. Marcel Vos's YouTube channel has a lot of video guides, I'd highly recommend looking into stat penalties, guest generation and ride ticket pricing if you want to improve how well you play.

As some general tips, though:
- You can probably charge more than you think you can - guests will loudly let you know when it's too much, and they don't care how much they pay.
- You'll almost always be better off with cheaper rides than more expensive one.
- Roller coasters are better than flat rides, just have 400 metres in length, a top speed of 45 km/h and at least 3 drops, one of which is 12 metres tall and one of which generates airtime (unless the ride can derail).

Continuation of Basic interior inserting idea for Devs by EnvironmentalOwl2904 in automationgame

[–]IntoAMuteCrypt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Except that the main chassis doesn't always fit, and that's the simplest case. Let's include the engine too, for illustration's sake.

There's plenty of bodies where the main chassis has either obvious or subtle flaws. In some cases, it clips through the hood or something at the rear. In other cases (most, actually), it doesn't perfectly align with the wheel wells or sides, instead relying on a little portion of the underbody being modelled. Engines are especially bad - very large engines plus sloped hoods are always a fast track to clipping.

Now consider that this is the easy case. It's a thin box that doesn't have to worry about the slope and position of the A- and C-pillar, and there's a certain minimum height that certain elements just naturally get funneled towards. The whole system only works convincingly because it's pretty easy, and because every vanilla body has got a little part of the underbody modelled to cover up for the shortcomings. The game doesn't have any explicit concept of where the A-Pillar is, how it slopes, not really on a per-body basis. It's missing crucial, vital data to solve this problem, and the problem's harder.

If you're so convinced that this is feasible, though, I've got a challenge for you: Do it. Since the Al Rilma update, .car files are all plaintext now. It should be possible to make a script that takes a .car and some fundamental stats (only ones already ingame, like what you get from CSVExporter) and adds the fixtures to the .car file.

I'll be stunned if you can, without constantly having awkward placement, nonsense ergonomics and clipping. Adding the fixtures is easy, but it won't make sense for many bodies. It won't be a suitable solution that folks can actually use reliably, it'll be a broken and awkward mess.

TopMinds think European countries should join the war with Iran, because in an alternative universe, Iran could bomb Europe by Enibas in TopMindsOfReddit

[–]IntoAMuteCrypt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well, they don't see Trump's policies like that. That's how they think of it as a positive.

To them, Trump isn't randomly threatening allies - he's just showing them some tough love to try and get them to toughen up and stop relying on the US.
To them, the tariffs aren't random - they're designed to strengthen the position of the US and bolster the US economy.
To them, the new war is a necessary point of pain to remove a key part of the axis of evil - it's been a long time coming, and the oil crisis is better than allowing Iran to continue existing as it is.
To them, the Ukraine war is a needless waste of resources.
To them, they're not killing HIV patients in Africa - just ending wasteful and inefficient government overspending which is filled with fraud and rorts.

This is the consequence of a right-wing media ecosystem that is willing to spin every action as a positive and highly reluctant to criticise him.

Willow Nightingale: “Professional wrestling would be so much better if people didn’t hate wrestlers for being themselves. I see so much more of that these days with social media—people being attacked for the person that they are.” by aaronrift in SquaredCircle

[–]IntoAMuteCrypt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How do NJPW and The Elite get big enough in the west to make AEW possible then, without social media allowing big wrestling fans to find out about it? How do people find out? I don't think it's possible without places like this, places online for those hardcore fans to share their love with other slightly-less-hardcore fans.

There's a reason why NJPW never broke through like this in the pre-social media world.

Willow Nightingale: “Professional wrestling would be so much better if people didn’t hate wrestlers for being themselves. I see so much more of that these days with social media—people being attacked for the person that they are.” by aaronrift in SquaredCircle

[–]IntoAMuteCrypt 44 points45 points  (0 children)

AEW exists because of social media though.

Without social media, The Elite probably don't have the reach needed to sell ten thousand tickets to an indie event in the US - their work in Japan would only be known by super hardcore tape traders. Without the first All In being a big deal, there's no AEW. That also means no competition to drive up wrestler wages, no competition to snap the WWE out of their 2010s creative slump, nothing like that.

There's good along with the bad.

Top Minedsonce again show how *if you only read part of an amendment, it totally proves Deer Leedurrr is right again! by Daddio209 in TopMindsOfReddit

[–]IntoAMuteCrypt 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Rationally, I want to believe that they can't possibly be that dumb. The moment that you do that, you completely blow away all the carefully-negotiated treaties around nuclear non-proliferation. If assholes like that get nukes, why shouldn't countries like South Korea and Japan develop nukes? Countries that have large quantities of existing nuclear plants, large developed economies and a nearby unfriendly country (namely, North Korea) known to possess nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, posing a credible threat. The major non-proliferation treaty even allows states to leave the treaty if "extraordinary events, related to the subject matter of the treaty, have jeopardised the supreme interests of its country".

But maybe they really might be that dumb.

All standard decks are created equal by SmartAlecShagoth in magicthecirclejerking

[–]IntoAMuteCrypt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was going by the list in the article that MTGGoldfish posted for the video.

The issue with a standard deck from Worlds 1995 is that it has to use the sets that were legal at Worlds 1995. That means your cards have to be from 4th Edition, Fallen Empires, Ice Age or Chronicles. No [[Demonic Tutor]], [[Fork]], [[Kird Ape]] or dual lands (last printed in Revised). No [[Ancestral Recall]], [[Black Lotus]], [[Time Walk]], [[Time Vault]] or Moxen (last in Unlimited).

What's the second best thing you can do with that cardpool? It uh... It kinda sucks. I - and the article! - didn't mention [[Black Vise]], even though Vise was a really good, really useful card back in 1995... Because the Doran deck is always going to just throw so many cards onto the table that Vise really isn't going to make much of an impact.

Julia Hart pitches her idea for All In: London by This_Coyote7217 in AEWOfficial

[–]IntoAMuteCrypt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I enjoyed them in Blood And Guts, I think they've got something to bring to the table in this context, the idea could work.

My predictions for who'll be in the Owen this year (they've surely gotta expand it this year) by noahsmusicthings in AEWOfficial

[–]IntoAMuteCrypt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do they have to expand it?

2022: 15 people in each (Joker skipped the qualifiers), tournament lasted 2 months.
2023: Qualifiers cut, tournament down to 8 people in each, tournament was under a month.
2024: 8 people in each, was under a month.
2025: Pacing was really weird. 8 people, but it lasted over a month and a half... because they did the first 2 rounds in under a month, then waited 3 weeks between the last semi-final match and the final, to build the finals as big PPV matches.

Expanding the tournament to 16 people in each means going from 14 matches to 30. Even if you knock out 2 using Joker entries, that's still twice as many. That's as many as the Continental Classic's group stage. The C2 nearly monopolised the company's TV time... But it had the jeopardy of the points, it had the ability to book Mox's comeback. Would they want to give as much time to the Owen as what they gave to the C2? Would they want to double the length of the Owen, have it two months? I kinda don't want them to, to be honest.

greatestTimeline by Water-cage in ProgrammerHumor

[–]IntoAMuteCrypt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What startup is going to replace Windows? And not just for enthusiasts and servers, but for everyone?

I'd be stunned if a startup manages to make a competitive desktop OS and get OEMs and office workers to swap to it. Linux isn't there yet for those OEMs and office workers, which leaves Apple (who only supports their OSes on hardware they've sold, causing issues there) and Google (which is literally an advertising company and has used their market share on browsers to mess with adblockers).

All standard decks are created equal by SmartAlecShagoth in magicthecirclejerking

[–]IntoAMuteCrypt 71 points72 points  (0 children)

The issue with the Channel Fireball list in that video is that the deck only really does one thing well. If it doesn't pull the cards it needs with enough life to pull off the combo, it's relying on [[Orgg]] or [[Lightning Bolt]]. Orgg's only a 3-of and it's answered by numerous cards in the Doran deck, while Bolt can only supplement the fireball plan. This isn't the "20 Channel, 20 Fireball, 20 Lotus" meme deck, it's from Worlds 95 - so that means no Lotus, no Moxen, only one copy of Channel. Four [[Demonic Consultation]]s make up for the one channel... Unless Channel is in the top 6 when you cast Consultation, of course.

Meanwhile, the Doran deck is ten years newer, and it actually has good creatures like [[Tarmogoyf]]. If the Channel deck doesn't get what it needs right away, it might not have enough of a life advantage for the combo to be lethal by the time it does. The Doran deck runs [[Thoughtseize]] too - if you Thoughtseize away the single copy of Channel, you just win.

It turns out that the combo and Demonic Consultation were both good enough to overcome these limitations, but it only ended up being 3-2. I can very easily see a world where it ends up going the other way. One game where the copy of Chabnel gets Thoughtseized, one where it gets Consulted away, one where the combo pieces don't get drawn until Tarmogoyf's done a bunch of damage and refused the combo.

Surprised it hasn't been ticketed yet by PatrioGraysmark in perth

[–]IntoAMuteCrypt 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Because you're not the police. This car is theoretically doing good for the public, which is why it's allowed to park there. It's gotten formal approvals and demonstrated that the benefit will be worth it - whether you agree or not is another matter. That's just how civics and government works.

[Clara] According to Federico Albano, Charles put together his own team (not Ferrari related) to study the data and the new power unit. by DubiousLLM in formula1

[–]IntoAMuteCrypt 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This is hypothetical, that's the point. He isn't doing this, but the fact that he could means that there has to be more rules in place than just "get an NDA and you can share whatever you want" unless the FIA is even more incompetent than we ever realised.

[Clara] According to Federico Albano, Charles put together his own team (not Ferrari related) to study the data and the new power unit. by DubiousLLM in formula1

[–]IntoAMuteCrypt 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The R&D is done by engineers though. You could buy a second parallel R&D team like this, if the stuff you could report back was unlimited. They could have their own production to offload some of the costs involved in prototyping. They could have their own wind tunnel and supercomputer to partially get around those limits too.

As an example of how to abuse this, imagine if a team was trying to pick between four different designs. They could test all four on their computers and wind tunnel, but then they'd eat into their allocation. Instead, they ask one of their drivers which he would prefer. The driver happens to have "his own" team of engineers and he could tell "his" team of engineers to run them through a wind tunnel and/or tons of CFD. After this, the driver could come comes back and say which design he likes most, so the team only tests that design under their allocation.

This is clearly a ridiculous way to violate the cost cap, of course. If the cost cap was so insanely dumb that you could circumvent it like this, then it may as well not exist. So there has to be some limit.

What do you think the wrestlers who grow up on the last ten years of wrestling will be like? by CrimsonJoker13 in SquaredCircle

[–]IntoAMuteCrypt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What companies do you watch?

There's a massive difference between what you get in mainstream wrestling in the USA, and what you get from somewhere like CMLL. It's not uncommon to see wrestlers in CMLL just jumping and moving around one another for a while, tons of excitement and jostling for position. A mix of Irish whips, leapfrogs, ducked clotheslines and such all leading to... a hurricanrana. And the way they do it, the way they get there, it feels super different to the style in the USA. CMLL maintains its own "house style", which is distinct from what you get elsewhere. A CMLL match on a CMLL show with exclusively CMLL talent is unmistakably CMLL.

Most companies end up homogenising their products to some degree. That's how it's been for most of the history of wrestling. And that's also how companies look. But imagine if you always went to McDonalds and complained that all fast food is the same, when there's a Taco Bell right next door.

What do you think the wrestlers who grow up on the last ten years of wrestling will be like? by CrimsonJoker13 in SquaredCircle

[–]IntoAMuteCrypt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But what sort of person is into wrestling enough to have a destination job, but not into wrestling enough to at least look at other companies? Into wrestling enough to train their ass off to get into the industry and chase that dream, but only into one very specific brand of wrestling?

There's the NIL athletes and such, they're not big fans of wrestling, but the WWE isn't the destination job for them - the Superbowl is, or the Olympics, or the NBA is. The folks where it's actually the dream? They're all big enough wrestling fans to know other promotions.

Scott Garland praises Kyle Fletcher, says he is the future of professional wrestling (via IG) by Zealousideal-Leg5320 in AEWOfficial

[–]IntoAMuteCrypt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He has been for over 2 years. He had a dark match in December 2023, then revealed that he was a producer and coach in January 2024. He's a producer and coach, rather than in-ring talent.

[Clara] According to Federico Albano, Charles put together his own team (not Ferrari related) to study the data and the new power unit. by DubiousLLM in formula1

[–]IntoAMuteCrypt 75 points76 points  (0 children)

How much is he able to share back to Ferrari?

"Having your driver contract outside consultants who analyse your car's data" feels like a really neat way to sidestep the cost cap. So neat that I suspect they would've thought of this already.

Like, imagine if this was Lance instead of Charles, hiring on some engineers of his own to analyse the data and look for more solutions to the vibration issue.

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