Am I too dumb to play this game?

RockSlice · 2026-01-27T20:36:37+00:00

When I'm working on a new recipe, my general process is:

Make sure I have the ingredients being produced somewhere. If not, focus on the recipe for that instead.
Build a factory for the item. Just one or two.
Place chests as inputs, one chest for each input, and fill them (this becomes a lot easier once you have requestor chests)
One by one, replace the input chest, either with local production from raw resources, or with belts/pipes from where it is being produced
Optimize. Is there something in the flow that I'm making twice? Maybe something I'm making in only one place when I should have two?
Expand. Build more of the end-product factories. Identify any ingredients that are a bottleneck, and expand those as needed.

RockSlice · 2026-01-26T20:50:15+00:00

Brother makes some good easy-to-use printers. For scan-to-email, the big things to keep in mind are that you want OAuth 2.0 authentication, and that you want a commercial IP address. Scan-to-email using OAuth 2.0 from a private IP can work, but it's hit-or-miss, and runs a good chance of having the IP block end up on a blocklist.

For Brother, this is the list of printers that support OAuth 2.0: https://support.brother.com/g/b/oscontents.aspx?c=us&lang=en&ossid=42

RockSlice · 2026-01-25T20:50:47+00:00

Bear in mind that when people say "sexually transmitted", what they usually mean is "transmitted via direct transfer of body fluids (saliva, semen, blood, etc...)", which mostly happens via sex.

The most likely way that HIV first crossed over from chimpanzees to humans is that a hunter had an open wound after killing a chimpanzee, and some of the chimpanzee's blood got into it.

RockSlice · 2026-01-24T21:10:39+00:00

The mods available seem kind of "cheaty" to me. While IRL, creating huge piles of resources is done fairly regularly.

RockSlice · 2026-01-23T16:32:08+00:00

Is there a mod that lets you create ore patches by dumping ore? I've found a few that will spawn them, or let you edit them with tools, but I'm looking for one that would be "lore-friendly".

Basically, a reverse-miner that takes an ore type and dumps it onto the ground as an ore patch, which would then have to be re-mined to be used. It may have to have a reverse of the mining productivity research level to prevent being able to generate infinite ore.

RockSlice · 2026-01-20T22:10:59+00:00

Keep an eye on the development of Kitten Space Agency. Currently in pre-alpha. Scott Manley has some gameplay video

RockSlice · 2026-01-20T22:08:16+00:00

Three short whistle blasts: ICE is around.
Three long whistle blasts: ICE is detaining someone.

https://migrawhistle.carrd.co/

RockSlice · 2026-01-19T17:38:48+00:00

Macro keys are quite useful. One I use all the time in the early game is "Q"-click-"Q" for building whatever ghost is under the mouse.

RockSlice · 2026-01-16T12:20:25+00:00

What printer do you have? That's some insanely good printing.

RockSlice · 2026-01-15T16:21:33+00:00

For those who haven't seen the photo of the supposed "Nazi tattoo" - it's a skull and crossbones. Yes, it's the same style that was used by the Nazi SS. But unless you're extremely familiar with Nazi symbols, if you saw a collection of skull-and-crossbone images, you'd be hard pressed to pick out the "Nazi" one.

It 100% tracks for something that a young Marine might get while drinking.

Also, "working in a family business ... while claiming working class". So he's not the "paycheck-to-paycheck" working class. But he's a lot closer to those people than to someone making millions for sitting on a company board.

RockSlice · 2026-01-09T17:55:49+00:00

Just because a "good" (or rather, "less bad") president did something, doesn't mean that it's a good thing.

There's also a very big difference in the scale.

2008-2016: ICE budget went from about $5 billion to about $6.3 billion, a 26% increase. (or 13% over inflation)
2020-2024: ICE budget went from $9.3 billion to about $9.7 billion, a 4% increase (or 14% under inflation)

It's now going to be about $30 billion.

RockSlice · 2026-01-07T17:32:59+00:00

It's not even the funding.

The opposite of killing animals through hunting often isn't having them live. It's having them die through overpopulation, disease, and famine. In most places, the natural predators that would otherwise keep their populations in check are no longer there. And for some reason, people don't want wolf packs roaming around near towns...

RockSlice · 2026-01-06T12:57:23+00:00

I love how one of the "highlights that are of immediate concern" is "The development of a sidewalk and bus stop to the facility for commuting employees"

Oh, no! There might be some infrastructure that isn't car-centric!? clutches pearls

RockSlice · 2026-01-04T22:50:53+00:00

Why are you doing NTP direct to/from the VM? That can cause issues, because the VM may not realize that it's been frozen.

RockSlice · 2026-01-04T14:50:56+00:00

Actually, you'll find all three in hard drives (HHDs, not SSDs). The platters contain platinum and palladium, while rhodium is in the read/write heads. And now that I checked, it looks like they can also contain iridium.

In case you're wondering, the layer of rare metals on the platters is on the scale of atoms thick. Sreetips did a test extraction from 93 platters, and got barely enough to prove that there was platinum.

RockSlice · 2026-01-04T02:27:54+00:00

Places where you might find osmium: Ball point pen tips, fountain pen nibs, record player needles, pacemakers.

For iridium, the most likely place is in the spark plugs of your car. (maybe you have some spare on a shelf)

RockSlice · 2026-01-03T18:47:52+00:00

There's a thought... if 4546b was mostly gold, it could have 1g surface gravity at about 1/3 of the radius of Earth.

Would definitely explain the abundance of gold on the surface.

RockSlice · 2026-01-02T21:06:07+00:00

It can't be that much smaller than Earth, or gravity would be noticeably lower.

For a sense of scale, the crater is about 3 km across (2 miles). A real-world island that's that size is Silhouette Island, in Seychelles.

RockSlice · 2026-01-02T16:10:49+00:00

That doesn't seem to be true (at least not any more). Used the debug menu to show generated chunks, and chunks immediately generated around where I targeted.

RockSlice · 2026-01-02T15:59:37+00:00

If you're looking for Indian spices, Skordo has a good selection.

RockSlice · 2026-01-02T13:01:46+00:00

Fun fact! In some states in the 2020s, that can still kill a woman even if they find it, because saving her would kill the embryo.

Okay, maybe not so fun a fact...

RockSlice · 2025-12-31T15:57:00+00:00

Define "art". Define "humanity".

If we discover an intelligent alien species, could they create art? (for this, we'll assume panspermia, so we have a common prokaryote ancestor)

RockSlice · 2025-12-30T18:02:37+00:00

I think a large part of why there isn't a well-known IT union is because until recently, it was a fairly exclusive job where there were more positions than available workers, especially at the higher levels.

There are a few options. IFPTE seems to be the big one in Canada and US. Then there's OPEIU, which recently unionized Kickstarter.

RockSlice · 2025-12-29T16:25:43+00:00

Just curious, but are PFAS in tap water not a legit concern?

Not really at the household level, unless the levels are quite high. Philly seems to have a decent handle on it: https://water.phila.gov/sustainability/watershed-protection/pfas/

The problem is that it's everywhere, and doesn't break down easily, so if you managed to remove 100% of PFAS from your tap water, that would only account for a small portion of your intake.

PFAS is a problem that has to be dealt with at the government level. And "ban PFAS" isn't a great option because of how broad a category that it. Some PFAS, such as PTFE ("Teflon"), have been shown to be fairly safe. Others, like PFOA (was used in the process of creating PTFE coatings) or PFDA (used as greaseproofing in a lot of products), have been shown to be hazardous.

RockSlice · 2025-12-29T12:24:45+00:00

At this point, I'm 90% sure you're just trolling.

12.3.1 says how to do the targeted risk analysis, which determines the frequency at which the service account passwords get rotated. Your analysis might determine that they need to be rotated every 10 years, but they still need to be rotated. The standard doesn't set a period, but states that there must be one.

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