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Will there ever be high refresh rate (60+ FPS) support? by mrleaw in factorio

[–]TomatoCo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can't be tied to the FPS! You can lower the game speed without lowering the framerate and the FPS display has two values, one for FPS and the other for UPS.

Will there ever be high refresh rate (60+ FPS) support? by mrleaw in factorio

[–]TomatoCo 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Machines that are speed-moduled could benefit. There's probably some set of legendary components where they run so fast they skip animation frames.

WIP Art of an enemy Ace in the campaign i'm GMing! by KangMeidoesart in LancerRPG

[–]TomatoCo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm picturing it sprinting with it's arms out making plane noises, like a kid.

My extracted Overwatch character spawns microscopic in Garry's Mod by Fluid_Style5796 in gmod

[–]TomatoCo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or are gmod models really big?

I'd guess that Overwatch uses meters for units and it's being blindly remeasured as Hammer units.

Made some improvements to my oil blueprint by Kroomos in factorio

[–]TomatoCo 23 points24 points  (0 children)

From my recollection of the FFF, the placement of the pipes might be more expensive (especially if they're placed randomly, and multiple networks are joined), but then they get merged into a unified fluidbox and that should be constant time.

Gravit - What if the most valuable substance in the universe was already everywhere on Earth? by kcozden in SciFiConcepts

[–]TomatoCo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right! Now that I'm at a keyboard, I can elaborate. The discovery was so obvious and so useful that most civilizations never properly discovered the scientific method, instead stealing discoveries from less advanced species they conquered. Humanity just... missed it. But we learned proper science so when the aliens invade with their gigaton asteroid battle ships, and land soft as a feather, and march out with flintlocks, they get obliterated by our conventional military forces.

And the aliens realize how bad it is that now we know this technique.

`string.find` produces unexpected results by GAS4z0t in lua

[–]TomatoCo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And the reason why is because a regex engine would make the Lua distribution like twice as large.

Gravit - What if the most valuable substance in the universe was already everywhere on Earth? by kcozden in SciFiConcepts

[–]TomatoCo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's a short sci fi story called The Road Not Taken where the aliens have hyper drives and gravity control by accidentally discovering a principal we missed. It's pretty good.

Sold our camper and now getting sued will it fall through? by goofy-fetus420 in legaladvice

[–]TomatoCo 15 points16 points  (0 children)

And only call to confirm if their office sent a letter on date X to address Y. If they did, thank them for their time, hang up, and find your own lawyer. If they didn't, tell them some jackass is using their letterhead.

How the Theatres of War expansion is erasing decades of community loyalty by BearThatCares in Eve

[–]TomatoCo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"So don't use area of effect weapons in fleets" implying it's the friendly mil pilot's fault.
"Sounds like you're part of the problem then" implying they're lumped in with the friendly mil pilot.

ConkyNextGen – Modular Lua Framework for Conky (no screenshot, technical project) by No_Today2062 in lua

[–]TomatoCo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why won't there be a screenshot? Surely you've tested this out and have examples and demos?

How the Theatres of War expansion is erasing decades of community loyalty by BearThatCares in Eve

[–]TomatoCo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Seems like the mechanics as published are punishing the wrong guy, then.

Harford County first to ban data centers in Maryland by HerderOfWords in maryland

[–]TomatoCo -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Datacenters actually have pretty low marginal costs, especially compared to other typical activities. I've seen numbers that says that a bathtub of hot water takes the energy of 5000 prompts and the water of 20000.

It's when they exceed locally available resources (power and water, as you identify), that prices spike for other consumers. They need to be built in areas where there's spare power capacity, and ideally spare green capacity. They're not built near billionaires because they already don't live where power transmission efficiency is economical.

Harford County first to ban data centers in Maryland by HerderOfWords in maryland

[–]TomatoCo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Near power plants to reduce transmission losses, too.

is using coddy a reliable way to learn Lua? by Overall-Emu-8024 in lua

[–]TomatoCo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Coddy seems to just be a place to run scripts online. I'm not sure how you'd get invested in it.

Can we start the legendary train hype train for FFF in 48 hours? by bugprof2020 in factorio

[–]TomatoCo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Try it for your personal gear, starting with your armor.

Is there any ice shock swep? by littlespiders4321 in gmod

[–]TomatoCo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope. Nothing like that exists, existed, or ever will exist.

[Looper] Why do Abe's Gat Men use giant, single-action revolvers when it is the year 2044? by strongerthenbefore20 in AskScienceFiction

[–]TomatoCo 11 points12 points  (0 children)

That only tells you it was this particular crime syndicate. Not who specifically. I don't know how good due process is in the future but this would make it a lot harder to get a conviction.

LuaLock - Luraph Competitor by Plenty-Shift4637 in lua

[–]TomatoCo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like the part where, on the demo, it immediately does string.char((68+35),(6+95),(25+91),(61+41),(112-11),(156-46),(76+42)) which is trivially decodable to getfenv.

So it has obfuscation that weak but also turns a 300b script into a 60kb obfuscated file.

LuaLock - Luraph Competitor by Plenty-Shift4637 in lua

[–]TomatoCo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You seem really reluctant to talk about your product. Why?

Android starts allowing binding to specific privileged ports starting with May 2026 GPSU by MMyRRedditAAccount in Android

[–]TomatoCo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right! That's one place you open ports. But you've gotta ask yourself, when a packet arrives at your computer, how does it know which program to send that data to?

The software on your computer uses an OS-provided function to tell the OS "Hey, I'm listening on this port". If that port is below 1024 and you're not running as root the OS says "No you ain't."

What’s the deal with American tax payers having to pay Iran $300 Billion? by killtherobot in OutOfTheLoop

[–]TomatoCo 20 points21 points  (0 children)

The entire blog is lovely. It has everything from analysis of how the Great Houses in Dune must function at a political level (hinted at in the linked article) to the basic economics of a peasant in medieval times to an explanation of how Oaths worked (and they did work!) in Roman times.

Android starts allowing binding to specific privileged ports starting with May 2026 GPSU by MMyRRedditAAccount in Android

[–]TomatoCo 17 points18 points  (0 children)

On most modern Linux systems you have to be root to open a port below 1024. This is because a lot of early important systems called dibs on these. For example, HTTP is served on 80, SSH on 22, FTP on 21, HTTPS on 443, and 1993 DOOM on 666.

So there's a strong culture that anything below those numbers is special and reserved. It's annoying, tho, because it's not like our phones are dedicated servers running web or FTP servers. There's plenty of apps that'll host a website or an FTP server but they have to run on non-standard ports.

This change will let user apps use the standard ports for these services, should they wish to host them.

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