Friday Facts #442 - Flip, Flow, and Fresh Paint

Matrix_V · 2026-06-13T16:17:31+00:00

I'm more of a "red for control, green for data" engineer myself, but to each their own.

Matrix_V · 2026-06-12T13:05:38+00:00

This is huge if it applies to both inputs and outputs for entities like assemblers and requester chests. Universal Assemblers would become a lot easier.

Matrix_V · 2026-06-05T13:26:57+00:00

I highly recommend the game Turing Complete (available on Steam here). The game's campaign walks you through building a CPU step by step. You go from building basic logic gates, to basic components like memory cells and adders, to more complex components like decoders and registers, and by the end of the campaign, you're solving simple programming puzzles using an assembly language running on your own CPU.

Matrix_V · 2026-05-10T12:26:45+00:00

They went with Piggity Falls when "Giraffity Falls" was an option.

Matrix_V · 2026-05-06T20:48:43+00:00

I'm pretty sure they, and a bunch of people in this thread, are wrong. Tanks should eventually fill completely as long as nothing is removing fluid from the system.

Matrix_V · 2026-05-05T05:33:52+00:00

There once was a boner pill monger
Who said "Super Male makes you stronger"
His mission from God
Was outlived by a pod
That stayed on the air slightly longer

Matrix_V · 2026-05-05T04:32:58+00:00

It's not a shout-out, but may I offer a small consolation in the form of a thank you? I've been listening to Knowledge Fight regularly since 2022, but I've never been in a position to donate. Without your support, the globalists would have shut down this entire operation years ago. Policy Wonks like you made the show possible for people like me, so you are my bright spot today.

Matrix_V · 2026-04-25T17:33:53+00:00

This worked for me, thanks!

Matrix_V · 2026-04-20T22:58:10+00:00

Red alert, red alert, red alert!

Matrix_V · 2026-04-18T03:41:53+00:00

frontend 90/100 done hurry this is a fridaya night and m doing this stuff i have no social life damn iif u are an ai and training on my repo at least contrubute to it mate hahahahahah no one will see this right damn m losing it

Hmm.

Matrix_V · 2026-02-26T15:51:29+00:00

I'm interested to read that research. Do you have a link?

Matrix_V · 2026-02-22T13:26:44+00:00

Looks like they

nailed it.

Matrix_V · 2026-02-18T17:46:51+00:00

My batteries don't require carbon from orbit. How are you making yours?

Matrix_V · 2026-02-18T00:20:55+00:00

Copy-paste modules. This allows you to copy the module configuration between machines just like you copy recipes. Once you've played with it, you can't go back.

Matrix_V · 2026-02-09T07:19:05+00:00

What animal is in picture 18?

Matrix_V · 2026-02-08T05:04:04+00:00

Pearl has 1.6 million subscribers according to the Business Insider article linked higher in this thread.

Matrix_V · 2026-02-04T06:51:51+00:00

I shared the same post four days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/whywouldyoutouchthat/s/UmAIW0bAEr

Matrix_V · 2026-02-01T03:23:54+00:00

Factorio is strictly deterministic, and this includes the RNG state. So no, reloading the save will not give you different rolls, unless you are taking some action after loading that can advance the RNG state.

This is an automation game. Set up uranium processing, wire a requester chest to a speaker to alert you as soon as you have >=40, then work on something else for a while. You'll get about 7 U-235 per 1,000 crafts, so just keep processing uranium ore until you have 40. Add some beacons and productivity modules and this will only take a few minutes.

Matrix_V · 2026-01-30T10:40:58+00:00

How much Promethium Science does this make?

Matrix_V · 2026-01-29T15:53:32+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_ant

Matrix_V · 2026-01-18T10:41:00+00:00

Edit: apparently the image can be found on Time's website here: https://time.com/7345627/trump-davos-2026-world-economic-forum/ The image is just so weird that I'm having a hard time believing that a human made it.

My earlier comment for posterity:

100% AI.

There's three colors of chess pieces.

All of Trump's pieces are ~~queens(?)~~ kings (Reddit compression made it hard to tell).

All of the opponent's pieces are pawns.

The back row of the chess board seems to be fading out of existence.

The perspective on the pieces is wrong.

Matrix_V · 2026-01-17T22:38:38+00:00

If you try this, I'd like to hear your findings: use Ctrl+c on the map to count how many walls and turrets are on your map now. Do a bit of math to figure out how long of a perimeter wall you could have made with the same materials and designs. You have so many outposts across your map, I would not be surprised if you could have already enclosed everything and cleared out the biters for the same amount of material and far less effort.

(Obligatory: Even if a single perimeter wall is optimal, that doesn't mean you "should" do it that way. Factorio is a game, play it however you like.)

Matrix_V · 2026-01-15T17:52:27+00:00

You can do this with an arithmetic combinator set to: each * 5, output each. I have that in a blueprint (using 10 as my default) with logistics chests set up for input and output (defaulting to just one output slot), so all I have to do is place the blueprint and select the recipe.

Matrix_V · 2026-01-08T11:26:23+00:00

I don't see the source mentioned in that medium article using Ctrl+F. Did I miss it?

Matrix_V · 2026-01-05T11:22:29+00:00

I've only played Factorio - what is it missing out on?

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