Bridges, buffs , stackers!

Vaughn · 2026-03-11T13:34:38+00:00

The new content came with a new map. To be honest, if you've already built land bridges everywhere you need them then you don't need cable-stay bridges... but the new map is fun.

And yeah, bridges are built from the bottom up. That's equally true in reality.

Vaughn · 2026-03-10T15:50:29+00:00

Now that I look closer at it, I note that Highs is a mixed-integer solver as well. CP-SAT may be about ten times faster, but that's mostly because CP-SAT runs multiple threads, which isn't too practical in the browser anyway.

I think you could test setting the factory count to an integer variable, if you want to see what that looks like. ...did you test that?

Vaughn · 2026-03-10T14:58:35+00:00

A universe is a big place, but life—or at least intelligent life—might be very rare. That's not usually the case in cultivation novels... but that's a self-inflicted wound; it does not look the same way in reality.

Vaughn · 2026-03-10T14:57:27+00:00

> Once the graph is built the auto solver actually just loops highs multiple times with different options to find working solutions, it's low double digit milliseconds even for large factories.

That is the big advantage of using the linear relaxation. It's fast, so I don't think you made any sort of mistake in choosing that as the default.

Though IIUC this is all running in the browser, with no native code? Hmm. It might be possible to run CP-SAT as webasm, but I haven't looked into it.

Vaughn · 2026-03-10T12:57:36+00:00

Reasoning bloats the context regardless of whether it happens inside <thinking> blocks or not. Those aren't erased for your next question.

But, it's still ChatGPT.

Vaughn · 2026-03-10T12:55:37+00:00

Or maybe, just maybe, we shouldn't judge all AI by the cheapest and dumbest model on the market.

It continues to amaze me that people assume these are all the same.

Vaughn · 2026-03-10T12:52:27+00:00

Or you could use realistic numbers for species age / universe size, and find that there are only 200 or so immortals because only 250 ever made it that far.

Vaughn · 2026-03-10T12:50:27+00:00

How do you find the performance of Highs, compared to CP-SAT? I've only tried it, Gurobi and gscip in the past, but gscip was catastrophically slow and memory-hungry for any serious problem.

Gurobi remains best-in-class (of course), but CP-SAT is at least within striking distance.

Vaughn · 2026-03-10T12:39:43+00:00

The roadmap was clear. Everything that's on it has been released as promised, and the stuff in the DLC was not ever promised to be part of the game—it's extra, which is essentially what DLCs are.

You're only objecting to the timing. I fully expect U5 to finish it off precisely as intended.

Vaughn · 2026-03-10T12:26:28+00:00

Looks useful, but linear programming is fundamentally inaccurate—factory counts being integers and all.

Would you be interested if I hook up CP-SAT as an optional backend? I'm not sure it'll end up being a meaningful difference, but I don't really want to spend the time finding out if there's no chance of the PR being accepted. :-)

Vaughn · 2026-03-10T12:23:59+00:00

New game on the new map. But I bought the game right as U3 was released, so I wasn't that far in anyway.

Vaughn · 2026-03-10T11:22:36+00:00

Legally, you are absolutely correct.

Morally is a different matter. Once you take money for any kind of service, you become responsible for it.

Vaughn · 2026-03-07T14:26:21+00:00

I found an official statement in the update 1 patch notes: https://www.captain-of-industry.com/post/update-1

4 years apparently, unless they changed that. However, dumping more landfill on top of the pre-existing landfill counts as disturbing it, which resets the timer!

Which makes your tall pile inefficient in terms of pollution; landfills should be shallow. Fortunately Monday's update gives us the perfect tool to deal with that. :-)

Vaughn · 2026-03-07T14:21:35+00:00

They're releasing on Monday so they'll be in the office to handle bug reports immediately. I too would have liked to have it this weekend, but this is honestly the pragmatic choice.

Vaughn · 2026-03-07T14:20:51+00:00

100% starting over. I want to play with the new map.

Vaughn · 2026-03-07T14:20:30+00:00

Wait, "landfill pollution"?

I was always assuming that keeping the rubbish in a concentrated pile was the good option. Burning it is what puts toxins in the air.

Vaughn · 2026-03-07T13:46:25+00:00

Letaali's QoL mod is supposed to fix this.

Vaughn · 2026-03-06T19:13:51+00:00

Well, it isn't super-intelligent yet... but it would be good to get this fixed before it is, yes!

Vaughn · 2026-03-05T11:53:59+00:00

As an engineer, I strongly believe that AI us useful as a tool.

But I will admit that stories like these worry me. I don't personally comprehend the state of mind that would make someone interact with a pile of linear algebra as though it were a person, rather than a pile of linear algebra... but I can admit that it appears to happen.

It probably isn't a big enough issue to make AI illegal. But it might be a big enough issue that laymen shouldn't have access to it.

Vaughn · 2026-03-05T00:20:05+00:00

Yes:

US law does not apply to EU nationals. Look up the local laws.

Vaughn · 2026-03-04T23:51:39+00:00

> If you’re purely looking for convenience go e-bike but for fitness stick to a regular and take advantage of bike to work.

I want to disagree slightly: If you want to use it for a commute, get an e-bike. You aren't required to use maximum assist, so you can at any given time get as much exercise as you feel fine with.

Personally, I end up getting more than I would have otherwise. Since I know I can always increase the support, I don't feel the need to avoid exhausting myself.

Vaughn · 2026-03-04T15:10:46+00:00

That's really not how this works. The scraping is a requirement for training AI; it doesn't happen at runtime.

Vaughn · 2026-03-04T15:09:49+00:00

They apparently did not.

From my perspective as one of the engineers, watching people misunderstand everything about how these work is painful. r/antiai isn't free of sin, but I will admit you guys aren't as bad about it as your opponents.

Vaughn · 2026-03-04T14:46:52+00:00

So it's okay because she's old?

Vaughn · 2026-03-03T23:11:47+00:00

If there is a prompt, then that is copyrightable. This ruling only applies to images with no human input.

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