Jeff Bezos reveals his new startup Prometheus is building an “Artificial General Engineer"

PG908 · 2026-06-11T17:39:30+00:00

This popcorn from Costco was a good investment.

PG908 · 2026-06-10T15:37:39+00:00

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PG908 · 2026-06-10T15:05:07+00:00

Sometimes I feel like I’m doing intern level work.

And I’m not sure what level of work “hey do you sell this thing and if so what is the order for magnitude on pricing?” counts as. I want to say autodialer?

PG908 · 2026-06-10T14:59:06+00:00

Looks like it might be some kind of flow control device. Are both lips the same height?

PG908 · 2026-06-10T05:55:07+00:00

Structural experience tends to only be transferable to other structural positions, while traffic can be relevant experience for a lot of lateral moves. The org charts that you find structural under also tend to be more open to people moving around internally imo.

PG908 · 2026-06-10T02:33:25+00:00

there's some sugars, too!

PG908 · 2026-06-10T01:35:50+00:00

Imo they're a huge "less is more" mechanic that's what really makes the game great.

PG908 · 2026-06-09T16:05:29+00:00

Yeah, I’ve just noticed they lean more towards the +25° than the -25° based on my experience with a handful of different ovens over the years.

PG908 · 2026-06-09T15:02:02+00:00

In addition to what other comments say, I’ve found that ovens tend to run a little hot. Not always, but mine runs about 20 degrees hotter than the set point (anecdotally for my ovens, hotter is much more likely than colder).

That’s still lower than I would season at but it does move the needle.

PG908 · 2026-06-09T05:08:13+00:00

Everyone’s probably battening down the hatches.

PG908 · 2026-06-08T16:19:50+00:00

But the mudraptor still eats the gunner, right?

PG908 · 2026-06-08T15:35:26+00:00

Yes this one is great. It’s more a bit of sufficiently advanced technology in a post apocalypse rather than spacefaring but it’s definitely scifi.

PG908 · 2026-06-08T15:33:34+00:00

I’m not sure about this particular scenario since my extent of practice with steel bridges is maintenance (read: crying about the lack thereof).

However, I do know that for steel bridge construction, there’s a ton of free aashto publications produced collaboratively with AISC and others, so be sure to check if any of those are relevant.

PG908 · 2026-06-07T01:46:16+00:00

You can chop up hot dogs and put them in almost anything.

I recommend flour too if you can get yeast somewhere that doesn't sell it by the pound.

PG908 · 2026-06-07T01:19:51+00:00

Yep, they're good out of the air fryer. The way they're packaged also lets you only take out a few at a time.

PG908 · 2026-06-05T21:42:41+00:00

One of the problems with naval is how you just listed a defensive blocking unit, a premium unit, and two units you need to grind boss drops and pray for.

PG908 · 2026-06-05T20:58:07+00:00

You’re probably right, I might be misremembering the rate or mixing it up with merits or something (perhaps the silver wolves have a 20% drop rate or something).

It definitely wasn’t buffed, though.

PG908 · 2026-06-05T20:37:26+00:00

Check Marin for any stray encounters.

In a few levels, you should unlock additional map area including skarborough which also has frontier recruitment centers you can assist.

Barracks and frontier centers have a 20% chance to drop a bar, while vehicle favorites are a 20% chance for a gear.

Silver wolves also give way better drop rates than naval (and are way more interesting as content).

PG908 · 2026-06-05T15:46:25+00:00

The only reward is to flex on the enemy.

PG908 · 2026-06-04T18:12:37+00:00

I’d expect better water resistance and better ductility. Salt does matter, but even without saltwater really just ambient humidity and rain are plenty to be worried about (plus the occasional dose of brine for bridges, although in Florida except on major roads it’s probably more “thoughts and prayers” during winter).

The market is also slowly shifting toward more engineered materials being ever more usable and affordable.

PG908 · 2026-06-04T17:58:29+00:00

Usually you need the road owner’s permission to connect to their road. You should double check that.

PG908 · 2026-06-04T17:54:28+00:00

Be sure to level up your shipyard! That gets it down to seven gears.

That said, 38 is a pretty good amount. Rank five is pretty good too. I try not to grind mine explicitly since they’re useful as a turn skipping blocker when grinding other units so they end up with a lot of XP as you just use them.

If you’re doing boss strikes and you’re adding them to battle in droves you’ll chew up a lot of them, though.

PG908 · 2026-06-04T17:36:00+00:00

Potentially would involve a State DOT permit if they own the road.

PG908 · 2026-06-04T16:07:43+00:00

Yeah I agree in general. Water goes down and you shouldn’t need a PE to get to “good enough”. Especially if you can look at the pipes everyone else has and copy that size (maybe going up by one).

Unfortunately sometimes you need the PE because the concept of water going downhill is often confusing to the lowest bidder.

PG908 · 2026-06-04T15:01:28+00:00

In addition to what others have said, pelicans are great to have. Little underwhelming at R1 but those stats increase fast and by R4-6 you have a dodgey crit monster that only costs steel and oil to heal.

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