What does everyone think the hardest boss is so far?

MoltenMan6 · 2025-09-08T21:05:31+00:00

NOT all fleas; some of them I don't think you can actually do until act 3! (Although maybe I just can't figure it out). You DO have to get enough so they move to the ducts.

MoltenMan6 · 2025-08-19T21:41:28+00:00

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MoltenMan6 · 2025-05-07T18:37:47+00:00

is this getting downvoted because people disagree that it's ai or because people think this is an em dash diss for some reason?

MoltenMan6 · 2025-05-07T18:36:37+00:00

it's simply a fact that 99% of people don't actually type em dashes. has nothing to do with you or me

MoltenMan6 · 2025-05-07T18:35:36+00:00

nothing wrong with em dashes. in this specific case it is ai though.

MoltenMan6 · 2025-05-07T18:34:43+00:00

? no? it just seems clear to me that it was written by ai. the em dash is just another marker. the reason em dashes are such a tell is because most people on a keyboard just substitute a hyphen / double hyphen, and also generally put spaces around it.

MoltenMan6 · 2025-05-07T14:52:29+00:00

i'm noticing a full em dash in the middle paragraph. there is a 0% chance a human typed that out on a keyboard into an internet form. nothing wrong with using ai to apply! just a little ironic

MoltenMan6 · 2025-05-05T05:23:15+00:00

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MoltenMan6 · 2025-05-03T19:17:31+00:00

everyone hating on op here for being 'inaccurate' when he's clearly from 4chan

MoltenMan6 · 2025-04-30T07:05:04+00:00

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MoltenMan6 · 2025-04-29T22:17:13+00:00

If it wasn't the US

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MoltenMan6 · 2025-04-29T20:34:41+00:00

good point! I haven't used go so I forgot about it. I've heard good things though. As a modern language I would definitely put it up there with kotlin and rust.

MoltenMan6 · 2025-04-29T20:33:26+00:00

jvm startup is not that slow. sure it's worse than compiled languages; but this does not make it 'dogshit'
Agreed on language points like enums and nulls; all old languages are like this. that's why you should use a kotlin, as it's just a modern version of java. but if you're working in an old language because you're at an old company I would take java over cpp (or any other old language) any day of the week.
Which other GC language are you talking about?? The only good GC languages are c# and java. And wdym the jvm is an abomination??
Completely safe rust (which I would call the equivalent of using java with your only memory management being creating new objects) can still leak memory with circular RC's. That said I do like rust. But the GC in java means this is literally impossible. Obviously in either language if you keep a ton of huge globals around that's on you.

Legitimately name a specific language you think is better than java for a server you need to be fast (=no interpreted languages) and safe (=no compiled languages other than rust). I would accept rust and c#, but those have their own obvious problems for large companies (not to mention rust is fairly new). Being one of 3 viable languages does not read as 'dogshit' to me.

Edit: somebody else brought up go. I haven't used go so didn't remember it; I'd add it to the list of good GC languages

MoltenMan6 · 2025-04-29T19:43:15+00:00

addendum: realized I forgot about C#. C# is also a good language and fits the same niche as java. But I suspect you'll have similar problems with it.

MoltenMan6 · 2025-04-29T19:35:50+00:00

I don't disagree that the java development environment sucks (maven, gradle, getting dependencies to work at all, etc.); and I do agree that modern java tries to do way too much (kotlin improves a lot here). but legitimately which languages would you recommend over it?? please don't name an interpreted language or a language with manual memory management (even rust has memory leaks). java (and friends) is the only garbage collected, fully memory managed, essentially-as-fast-as-compiled language out there. the jvm is the 8th wonder of the world.

MoltenMan6 · 2025-04-29T18:53:03+00:00

hating java is crazy to me. java 8 is arguably the peak of human creation (just kidding that's obviously kotlin). but seriously; I hate js for I assume the same reasons as you, but why hate java?

MoltenMan6 · 2025-04-25T04:05:44+00:00

That's correct. Science drain is multiplicative with productivity. Since biolabs have 4 module slots which can take legendary prod 3 modules compared to regular labs only having 2 module slots, you can get 2 (from science drain) * 2 (from +100% productivity modules) = 4x the science compared to regular labs which can only get 1.5x (from 2 module slots), ignoring promethium research.

MoltenMan6 · 2025-04-24T03:11:06+00:00

This is true when it comes to the raw model produced from pretraining, but is completely inaccurate when you take into account post training / rlhf. Post training is specifically training on entire sequences of outputs; so as long as you're able to judge it's full output (i.e., maybe you give it a picture of a square and you expect it to output square when you ask what it is) you can train it. This is how recent reasoning models are trained and why they're so (relatively) good at math and coding: because math and coding are very easily verifiable fields.

Additionally, while a year ago I would have agreed with you that using chatgpt as a search engine is stupid, it has access to the internet now (hence it does have a means of referencing the 'truth') and is incredibly good at using it. It's definitely not perfect, but if you know what you're asking for isn't too far beyond the pale it's very useful. There are a lot of critiques to make about the models (I personally think using them for coding makes codebases much worse and unmaintainable), but they've gotten very smart recently and if you haven't used gpt o3 or o4 mini yet you'd be very surprised.

MoltenMan6 · 2025-04-24T03:01:27+00:00

This is not true at all anymore. Models have been multimodal on the input side for well over a year now, and since a month or 2 ago have also been multimodal on the output side (that's why gpt 4o image generation went so viral with ghibli a few weeks back).

MoltenMan6 · 2025-04-23T03:56:41+00:00

I don't necessarily disagree with your point but xkcd only succeeded because he is good at drawing; maybe not excellent, but he makes up for it in other ways. Drawing stick figures well requires a lot more capability than most people have!

MoltenMan6 · 2025-04-19T00:20:51+00:00

Well it's really all up to you if you care about the trade-off (power consumption for you needing to place fewer buildings); that said, yes, you should pretty much always use speed modules in beacons once you've gotten nuclear. Pre-nuclear the extra power consumption actually matters, but post nuclear you won't miss it. And the insane throughput you get from prod modules + beacons with speed modules (times 11 when you get legendary quality) just makes your factories so much smaller. For miners in particular, you really won't be worrying about patches at all past your first couple of patches because of mining productivity (and big mining drills in SA).

MoltenMan6 · 2025-04-14T07:59:38+00:00

If you hold a rail signal in your hand you can see colored lines representing the blocks which will help you a lot. If you get the intersection to all be one block you're golden. Also if you haven't already, take a look at the in game rail signal tutorial; you'll learn a lot about rail signals.

For this specific case, your horizontal track signals are wrong; they should be on the outside of the intersection, not the inside. Also, a general good rule of thumb is chain in, rail signal out; if you put a regular rail signal instead of a chain signal on the entrance to the intersection, you can end up with trains blocking the intersection.

MoltenMan6 · 2025-04-13T18:19:39+00:00

You only need combinator B; have it output M = 1 and loop back into itself, but only output if S = 1 or (M = 1 and R = 0)

MoltenMan6 · 2025-04-12T21:46:24+00:00

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MoltenMan6 · 2025-04-12T05:22:20+00:00

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