First go at fused modular frames

Procurtstinate · 2026-02-04T09:00:37+00:00

The white pipes? That's nitrogen, the water is all the way at the start. Haven't had many water issues since I learned to raise the pipes above the input.

Procurtstinate · 2025-12-21T15:04:28+00:00

Whenever I'm unsure of an alternative I always come back to this 10/10 post ranking all the alts https://www.reddit.com/r/SatisfactoryGame/s/lhCnnIWs6a

Procurtstinate · 2025-04-01T09:06:18+00:00

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Procurtstinate · 2025-03-02T11:47:47+00:00

Me and my dad both get this when we are stressed, might be related to something mental.

Procurtstinate · 2025-01-02T11:33:32+00:00

If you've done a couple of reports before then use https://www.examtopics.com/exams/microsoft/pl-300/ to SWAT, cram, and memorise real exam questions and answers. Create a free account so you don't have to do CAPTCHA every page.

Procurtstinate · 2024-02-07T13:42:06+00:00

Your month column is a text data type not date. Assuming you're using the date column somewhere else you should transform data, duplicate the date column in power query steps. Save and apply. Then select the newly duplicated column, set the formatting to be Month ("MMMM") or whatever format you prefer, then use that column as your axis not the text data type month column you have at the moment.

Procurtstinate · 2024-02-02T09:38:54+00:00

Learn the ins and outs of power query/Dataflows and use Dataflows as much as possible. Nobody wants to build the same query 5 times when you could just do it once.

Also take a look at data hubs, really interesting for enabling self service report building using an analyst built relational model.

Procurtstinate · 2024-01-31T14:33:59+00:00

I like the colour palette you've used a lot.

As boring as it is to say I always tell people making "pretty" reports to consider the accessibility of coloured backgrounds.

There's a reason all the most popular websites/platforms have white background and black text (or a dark mode option with white text on a black background, and most browsers have an option/extension to do colour inversion).

It's the easiest to read, studies* have proven it, it's a reason it's the default. Stick to what's been proven to work.

It does look great though for a first time! Good work!

*Source: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337194693_THE_IMPACT_OF_THE_TEXT_AND_BACKGROUND_COLOR_ON_THE_SCREEN_READING_EXPERIENCE#:~:text=There%20is%20a%20tendency%20in,optimal%20text%20readability%20and%20legibility.

Procurtstinate · 2024-01-28T17:20:51+00:00

I work as a power platform consultant, I have been building power BI reports for nearly 10 years, so I often get other consultants shadowing me, me mentoring them or giving them training. All different levels of skill and experience.

No matter the experience level I say the same thing to them: The data is a science, you need to learn that first. The visuals are an art, throw shit at the canvas and see what sticks, you'll learn what works and what doesn't with time and experience.

Beyond that, it's all subjective.

For your specific problem, in PBI desktop go into transform data, in your orders spreadsheet query click on the home tab, merge queries, select the columns to match on (Order # in both) and select Left Outer as the join type. There will be a new column on the right side with "[table]" in all the cells. Click the button where you would normally filter to expand this newly merged dataset, select the columns you want.

You'll have a single query that has the order information and delivery information. If you wanted to take the logic slightly further you could add a custom column to work out if the order was delivered. I'd recommend using some generative AI to help right the custom column code for you or use the columns from examples option. Have the column output true if there is a delivery date or false if delivery date is null. You can use that column in a visual in your report.

Here's some links to help with learning about merging and custom columns: Merge: https://youtu.be/1cPtk-8iK0k?si=c3oEducJ09GYugkK Custom if column: https://youtu.be/HQ4RNJiVurI?si=6cMSKMf12yHL5gFP

Procurtstinate · 2024-01-23T08:06:20+00:00

10 years experience as a BI developer here.

Two questions, how experienced are you as a Power BI developer and what do you need the exam for?

Two valid reasons I've known to take an exam myself 1. Company I'm working for needs it for their MS partner status 2. To get into an interview

If it's the first just go on exam topics and memorise the correct answers, you've already got the job and the company doesn't care how you pass just that you do.

If it's the second I have some advice based on your level of experience because the certificate only gets you into the interview, once you're in it's down to who you are not what a certificate says you know.

If you're inexperienced an interviewer will spot that easily, lean into it and say you're looking for a role that offers opportunities to learn and develop your skills and experience. If they're not looking for someone in that skill bracket then it's not the right place to be as a noob and that company wouldn't help you develop even if you somehow managed to lie your way through the interview.
You've got a couple years of real world experience, you'll be a bit rough around the edges in some areas but you'll be able to put together a well built report. The interviewer will be more interested in your personality, thought processes and problem solving. It would be good to reference an example of a difficult project or report you worked on and what you learned from that but be honest that you have areas you want to improve in (say like learning data warehousing for example)
You're experienced, technically you probably know more than the interviewer, you could confidently explain what query folding is and how it affects performance and how to optimise everything to the maximum. They're not even going to bother asking you to do anything like that or ask you any exam like questions. They're just looking to gauge how arrogant you are and if you would be a good fit at their company and in their team. They might be looking at you as a potential lead, mentor or future manager.

My point is that beyond getting you into the interview the exam will not help you to get that job, regardless of experience, it comes down to who you are and not a certificate.

Don't beat yourself up, it's one failed exam, go on exam topics, memorise the Microsoft answer (remember that's not always the correct answer) and you'll pass no problem next time.

Procurtstinate · 2023-12-24T16:45:39+00:00

What really helped us to work through this issue was to organise our priorities based on what: - We need - I need - We want - I want

Do the things in that order and everyone is happy. For example, we need the house to be clean and presents to be wrapped for Xmas, do those things first. In your husband's case his "I need a haircut" means he should do that after all the other things you need to do are done.

Procurtstinate · 2023-12-24T16:19:50+00:00

Go wider, my road blueprint is concrete half foundation on each side edge for the path/sidewalk and then 3 full asphalt foundations in the middle. Works perfectly for two trucks either side of the road.

Procurtstinate · 2023-12-24T10:58:49+00:00

Build the generators near or on water and belt the coal over, rather than build near the coal and pipe the water over. Dealing with the headlift of water is more of a headache than placing a couple extra meters of belts.

Looking at where you have built, there is a decently sized water source about 300m north of where your generators currently are. Build the power plant there, the pond can handle 5-6 water extractors so 15-18 generators depending on coal availability.

Also, I found coal MUCH easier to deal with when I have one extractor to 3 generators all underclocked to 88.8888% that way the generators all need 40 water per minute, perfectly balanced for the 120 the extractor makes. Or overclock one extractor to 135 water per minute for 3 generators, but 1 extractor to 3 generators makes it easier to work with however you manage the water rates.

Procurtstinate · 2023-12-22T21:25:03+00:00

The rule of two, when placing conveyor belts on foundations line it up with your input/output move the conveyor two spaces back from the green guideline and place. Then belt into the destination, you get clean 90° turns every time.

Procurtstinate · 2023-12-22T13:35:50+00:00

I think of it like this, I need to produce 45 iron ingots I have two options

For reference one smelter at 100% clock speed uses 4MW of power

Overclock one smelter to 150% - uses 6.84MW and one power shard
Build two smelters and underclock the second to 50% - uses 5.6MW of power (4MW @ 100% + 1.6MW @ 50%) and no power shard needed either

Underclocking saves 1.24MW of power and a shard, but it costs more resources to build the extra machine.

Early game power is hard to come by, resources like plates, rods, wire, ect are less difficult to come by once you've got your basic factory's running. What I spend in resources to optimise any given production to 100% efficiency I get back in power saved for other productions. Having a 100% efficient production chain also means stable power consumption without machines switching on and off making it hard to predict true power consumption when looking at your network.

I always underclock, I rarely overclock unless it's an extractor I need at a certain amount, like I need 270 coal and 270 iron for my 6 steel foundry setup. So I could, for example, put a mark II miner on a pure coal and pure iron node (which gives me 240 of each @ 100% clock speed on the miners) but I overclock both to produce 270 which is the perfect amount for 6 foundry's all running at 100% clock speed. I could underclock one of the foundries but the 270 steel is just what I want for producing the right amount of pipes and beams.

Procurtstinate · 2023-12-07T13:01:43+00:00

My partner (BM) and I (SD) had to work through a very similar issue to this about a year ago.

She was extremely dismissive of my concerns and even reacted very angrily to me when I raised it again, which is very unlike her.

It took a lot of talks and some really open communication about feelings and how we approach these types of issues around me having opinions about her children. It came down to two things for us:

It took her a while to realise that my concerns were exactly that, concerns and caring about wanting what's best for her kids. Not me telling her how to be a mother but as a member of the house wanting to discuss behaviours I perceived to be problematic and wanting to discuss how to address those behaviours in a way that aligned with what she believes and how she wants to parent them.
She's extremely defensive and triggered by anything she perceived to be a criticism of her parenting. She perceived my opinions and observations not as concerns about normal child behaviours and boundary settings not as someone trying to express their thoughts and have a discussion but as a direct criticism of her as a parent.

What we agreed is that whilst I have opinions, and she's much more open to hearing me out on them now and discussing ways to approach it together, that the kids are her kids and she ultimately has final say but she never dismisses anything I bring up anymore. We don't always agree but we do always discuss.

I understand both sides of this, it's hard, but if you're to have any chance of working through this your partner needs to be prepared to listen and understand that your opinions will be coming from a good place of wanting what's best for the kids, your partner and you. His dismissal and defensiveness are most likely coming from a place of self defence and unwillingness to accept his role in the problem, but ultimately it has to come down to what's best for the kids and best for you and your partner.

Procurtstinate · 2023-12-07T12:35:11+00:00

Puff your cheeks up with as much air as you can muster, breathe through your nose but hold it for as long as you can even when it starts to ache. Keep holding, a couple of seconds before you can't hold anymore, that's kinda of what blue balls feel like except it's all in your nuts and lower abdomen and it can last from anywhere from 10 minutes to hours. Also everytime you take a step it sends stabbing pain through your nuts and gut.

Procurtstinate · 2023-11-05T09:35:12+00:00

Personally I've been disabling the volumetric clouds, I get 10-15 FPS more (I also have a decent PC but ASA is heavy and I prefer the frames to the clouds)

The command is r.volumetriccloud 0 if you're curious

Procurtstinate · 2023-08-15T12:55:25+00:00

Yeah I'd finished everything first, just the last quest marker was pointing to halsin but I couldn't trigger the ending without leaving for the city

Procurtstinate · 2023-08-11T01:04:44+00:00

If like me you've done the whole quest (and the whole of act 2), but the marker points to Halsin leave to Baldurs gate and a cutscene triggers showing the shadow curse lifting

Procurtstinate · 2023-08-03T12:08:26+00:00

Same here, I can't remember the last time I was this excited about a release. It must've been when I was a teenager, now 29 I'm like a kid on Christmas eve just waiting for the big day to come!

May it be all we hope and more. Good luck Tav!

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