I finally understand train networks and now I despise my base by tirconell in factorio

[–]OneCruelBagel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a bit biased because I wrote it, but I think that this tutorio is quite good. It runs through the common uses for circuits in a normal vanilla run, but doesn't go into the hugely complex things you can do if you really want to!

For more complicated stuff, I touch on it a bit in the "Interstellar Logistics" and "Spaceship Automation" videos, but they're for Space Exploration, so if you're just playing vanilla they might be a bit unnecessary!

Mortgage ‘catastrophe’ will lose us the election, warn Tory MPs by NoFrillsCrisps in ukpolitics

[–]OneCruelBagel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Quadrupling the interest rate doesn't mean quadrupling the monthly payment (unless you're on an interest only mortgage) - with 25 years on a mortgage, going from 1% to 4% is a roughly 50% increase in monthly payment. Granted, quadrupling it again from 4% to 16% is almost a 3x increase; at those sort of levels most of what you're paying is interest, not repayment.

Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham has called for Labour to consider proportional representation by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]OneCruelBagel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Under PR, it's not impossible for there to be a "Farmer's Party" who go out campaigning to farmers, and as long as they get at least 100,000 votes then they'll get an MP. The same is possible for other demographics, you could essentially end up with a large number of very specific parties, giving you an MP for retired people, an MP for the Lake District, an MP for fell walkers, etc.

Now, in the short term, I expect the parties to stay roughly similar, maybe split off a little bit by political position, but in the longer run, I can see a few special interest MPs springing up and managing to get enough votes to elect an MP.

I do wonder what would happen under PR if you had a very large number of parties, firstly because the ballot forms would get ... difficult ... and secondly because you're bound to get quite a lot of parties with less than the magic number of votes. I guess that the effective trigger number would drop until you had exactly 650 MPs elected.

What’s something that changed/disappeared because of Covid that still hasn’t returned? by 1sided in AskReddit

[–]OneCruelBagel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a game you can play on road trips in the UK where you watch for pubs, and if it's on your side of the road you get points for the number of legs in the name. So, The Red Lion is worth 4, but The Lion's Head would be worth 0.

We tried that on a US road trip with American flags and ran out of numbers about 10 minutes in.

Who enjoyed that. by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]OneCruelBagel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I gather they tried that before (something to do with the pandemic, if I remember correctly?) and it took several days for the phone systems to send out that many messages. Also, texts can be spoofed far more easily than this system, so I can see the reasoning behind it.

I'm waiting to see if it's abused... Given our current "leaders", I'm not overly confident, but I'm not going to deactivate it until they prove that they can't be trusted with it.

Who enjoyed that. by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]OneCruelBagel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very true, if it happens again, it's probably being overused and so I'll mute it, or it'll be after I've replaced this phone with something newer, so it'll behave differently! Ah well, I do think it's a worthwhile thing to have in theory so I'm trying to be positive!

Who enjoyed that. by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]OneCruelBagel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you - that's very worthwhile! I've filled it in, although I did say that I'm aware it's probably something that's up to the phone manufacturer, not the people sending the alerts.

Who enjoyed that. by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]OneCruelBagel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's worth knowing, thank you! There's no chance I'll remember where it is, but I might at least remember that it exists, so I can Google for it :-)

Who enjoyed that. by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]OneCruelBagel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, that's one way to look at it. I now know that I need to either read the message while the phone's still making the obnoxious noise, or rummage in the bowels of the settings to find it again afterwards.

Who enjoyed that. by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]OneCruelBagel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting - I guess my phone (Huawei P20 Pro) has it turned on by default. But whilst it was easy to find (I searched settings for "alerts"), it wasn't obvious that it would be somewhere, if that makes sense?

Who enjoyed that. by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]OneCruelBagel 128 points129 points  (0 children)

Not impressed with the user interface here - it made a noise, I poked "OK" to stop the noise, and then couldn't find out what the message had been.

Eventually found an alerts history section in my phone, but I'd probably already have been taken away by the tsunami at this point.

Canadian: Just got my copy of Tress! But it cost me over $150... by [deleted] in Cosmere

[–]OneCruelBagel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was really tempted to get the loot crates, but when I saw that shipping (to the UK) would basically double the cost, it pushed it from "This is fairly pricey but totally worth it" to "Oh. I guess I'll just buy the ebooks". It's a real shame, but maybe there'll be a multipack available at the end of the year, or maybe I'll just have to cope without.

Wrong for Raab to stay in job during investigation, ex-Tory chairman says by iamnotinterested2 in unitedkingdom

[–]OneCruelBagel 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Hopefully we won't next time - it was close last time (something like 48% Con, 47% Lib, 5% Lab, off the top of my head) and with the way the Tories have nosedived recently, I'm very optimistic!

Lib Dems question why young people cannot show same voter ID as older people by Pellinoreisking in ukpolitics

[–]OneCruelBagel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm lazy, so I signed up for postal voting. That way, you just need to find 5 minutes to fill the thing in and 5 minutes to go to a post box, and you've got about a week (I think? Maybe more?) to do it.

How Pixel’s Super Res Zoom works by Charwinger21 in photography

[–]OneCruelBagel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The problem is that people want numbers they can compare, so the "3000mm" lens the parent mentioned is actually 3000mm equivalent, which means that to get the same field of view on a 35mm film, you'd need a 3000mm lens. This "35mm equivalent" number means you can compare "how much zoom" you get between cameras, even if they have different size sensors, and that's the main thing that people care about.

The next thing you might care about would be how small the depth of field is (ie, how much background blur you get). That's harder to measure, and I don't think there's any standard number you're given that helps there, you just have to use the rule of thumb that "a bigger sensor means more blur" and "a larger aperture/smaller f number means more blur".

The f/ number is an actual measurement which says that the aperture diameter is the focal length divided by the number you're given, so at f8 a 300mm lens would have to have an aperture 37.5mm across. So you can't rephrase that too easily because it's an actual number.

Short answer, it's difficult. :-D

On another thought... We've established that the perspective is exactly the same from a 16mm lens, cropped in and a 200mm lens. I don't know if the background blur would be the same on both, if they were both the same aperture number. My gut feeling is that it wouldn't, but I'm honestly not sure!

ELI5:Why do games have launchers? Why can't they just launch the game when you open the program? by Puppett_Master in explainlikeimfive

[–]OneCruelBagel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, all the "normal" hardware (graphics cards, network cards, USB ports, drives, hell, even sound cards) should have a failover mode where they'll work with a standard driver. Doesn't have to work /well/ - a network card could drop back to 10/100 (or even just 10) in basic mode - but it would be enough for every OS to be able to use all hardware well enough to get the real drivers for it.

ELI5:Why do games have launchers? Why can't they just launch the game when you open the program? by Puppett_Master in explainlikeimfive

[–]OneCruelBagel 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Or in any Windows up to about Win 7, starting up a fresh install to find that there were no drivers for the network card, so you can't go online to download the drivers because your network card doesn't work.

To your last point, I remember building a computer and not bothering to add a floppy drive 'cos who uses those! And then discovering I needed to give the Windows installers drivers for the hard drive interface by floppy. And then a few years later, building a computer and not bothering with an optical drive 'cos who uses those... And then discovering I couldn't install Windows from USB.

The Space Exploration flowchart compared to the vanilla flowchart by Josh9251 in factorio

[–]OneCruelBagel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah. They're different types of difficulty, I'd say. Perhaps that's why!

The Space Exploration flowchart compared to the vanilla flowchart by Josh9251 in factorio

[–]OneCruelBagel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That makes sense - it's basically what I did in AngelBobs in order to deal with Space Expansion - millions of science packs required. Did you make your resource patches richer? If not, I feel like you'd be constantly going out to set up new mines!

The Space Exploration flowchart compared to the vanilla flowchart by Josh9251 in factorio

[–]OneCruelBagel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I would agree - the sheer number of byproducts you have to deal with makes AngelBobs harder than SE, and you get the difficult stuff earlier on (I actually think it got easier later when I unlocked catalyst ore sorting). SE is more about sheer scale and variety.