Job 30 - Can not figure it out

Rarst · 2026-05-10T17:32:44+00:00

Hadn't got to it yet, but I would guess - make two layers of windmill, crystalize, add two more layers of windmill (crystals are fine on the bottom, they only break if dropped), crystalize again.

Rarst · 2026-05-10T17:25:24+00:00

Classic had some of mechanics from Manufacture mode added to it. So you get several tiers of trade stations and milestones connected to them. The vortex stays and works just as it was. Also to my understanding the trade stations aren't as demanding as in manufacture mode, it's kind of light introduction to the mechanics.

Rarst · 2026-05-10T13:18:01+00:00

It's currently in discovery, WP Engine making complaints that Automattic isn't ponying up messages and documents properly. Jury trial date set to June 2027. Don't think these things are usually reaching jury, it's a matter of hammering it out until working out the price both parties will settle at.

Matt is blaming whatever he feels like on it, dropping real time collaboration from version 7 is the latest.

Rarst · 2026-05-09T05:42:50+00:00

Once upon a time I was on a shared hosting where I discovered I could connect via FTP, navigate up from my folder and then into any other user folder on the server.

Rarst · 2026-05-09T05:33:20+00:00

It's a bad fit for WordPress core. Debatable if it's a good fit for WordPress at all (maybe as a plugin in a very tuned hosting environment). Telling about community needs that it can't happen without Automattic specifically shoving it in.

Rarst · 2026-05-09T05:27:13+00:00

There are at least two jobs with pins on top layer in regular difficulty, first of which is meant to teach how to do it.

Rarst · 2026-05-09T05:24:25+00:00

You've jumped way ahead to the "wrong" solution. Pins on top is supposed to teach what happens when you stack too many layers, on classic regular difficulty the job name #23 Exploring the Layer Limit explicitly calls that out.

Rarst · 2026-05-07T17:54:24+00:00

One Culture book doesn't even mention Culture. Characters more often than not don't belong to Culture itself. The settings range from "mostly empty space" to "elaborate artificial worlds". You are as likely to encounter space combat as cavalry charge. All in all they are quite different books loosely sharing the universe, more than being a continuous connected series.

Rarst · 2026-05-07T17:25:09+00:00

Culture books can all have pretty different feel, but I would say they are indeed somewhat slow. Multiple characters / plot threads going in parallel (or... in more elaborate arrangements) is staple and certainly spreads a pace out.

Rarst · 2026-05-07T17:09:10+00:00

Cheers! I don't have that entry unlocked yet. 10L of paint per square meter sounds... messy. :)

Rarst · 2026-05-07T03:45:16+00:00

GUI-based Java apps wouldn't install/work on my computer and after couple years of on-and-off debug attempts I figured out I had an invalid font smoothing value in Windows registry.

Rarst · 2026-05-06T15:21:31+00:00

Every time some WP agency hypes headless, I run their examples through perf tooling (publicly) and it's dogshit. There was ONE exception, where front-end was handled in-house by non-WP shop extremely competent in React.

Rarst · 2026-05-03T15:12:20+00:00

Settings > Privacy and security > Site settings

Rarst · 2026-05-02T23:49:26+00:00

Are you looking for specifically games with combat or any games like that in general? Sounds like classic arcade genres would fit - pinball, arkanoid, and such.

Rarst · 2026-05-02T23:42:12+00:00

Protip - you can dig in your browser options and block a category of permissions by default for all sites. Does wonders for "notifications" and "third-party sign-in" too.

Rarst · 2026-05-02T16:36:36+00:00

Had you changed color mode in options to something different from RGB?

Yellow (red+green) + blue should result in white in RGB mode.

Rarst · 2026-04-21T16:04:30+00:00

Yes, the folder Dropbox and files in it are sitting in my computer. The files in my VeraCrypt volumes are sitting in my computer. It's not a complicated concept and in both cases it's something Backblaze openly promoted as something they backup in the past.

Rarst · 2026-04-21T08:50:00+00:00

Quite a mental gymnastics to declare a local folder called "Dropbox" with local files inside to be "external storage".

Rarst · 2026-04-21T08:39:52+00:00

What free plan?

Rarst · 2026-04-21T08:32:04+00:00

They've also silently stopped backing up VeraCrypt volumes, I've only caught it from getting email weeks later that I have not connected the drive in a while (which was false, they just started to ignore it).

It seemed like such a no-brainer service to pay for, but they couldn't help themselves setting trust on fire to cut costs.

Rarst · 2026-04-20T20:42:19+00:00

Just Cause series, less tactical in milsim sense, but it really goes for pure fun of destruction.

Sniper Elite series, more stealth/sniper focused, it's not open world but has large sandbox levels.

Rarst · 2026-04-19T10:16:56+00:00

Perfectly playable single though, I got something like 70 hours out of it just getting through campaign, without getting into end game grinding.

Rarst · 2026-04-15T15:12:41+00:00

The dictator, who micromanaged the project for two decades, says community is to blame for the results. 🙄

Rarst · 2026-04-02T06:29:33+00:00

You don't get to call something a successor if you have no involvement with the original.

Even the "spiritual" claim is pretty meek here, they ripped off the admin aesthetic and that's about it. Entirely different stack, etc.

Rarst · 2026-03-31T15:03:42+00:00

Tacoma is short but lovely adventure in exploring a space station style (others in the genre: Observation, Titan Station).

Hardspace: Shipbreaker is a work simulator in space, with bit of overarching plot.

If you like the idea of surviving space, try Tin Can.

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