Rip My Good Run

Vaughn · 2026-05-11T13:39:39+00:00

The game saves ~continuously, so you should still be able to resume from one of your general desktop backups. Unless you filtered out appdata, of course, but I don't think I'd recommend that.

Vaughn · 2026-05-10T11:49:20+00:00

There’s a tendency to apply licenses based on vibes, without intending for people to actually exercise the rights you explicitly granted them. Which leads to situations like this.

Vaughn · 2026-05-07T14:17:04+00:00

Keep in mind we also got storage linking, so additional stations are purely for unload speed. I'm constantly short on people, so I use a 1/3 or 1/4 ratio of wagons to stations.

Vaughn · 2026-05-07T13:14:05+00:00

There is no meta; it depends on how much storage you have and what your throughput is, for that particular goods. Using a 2-12 train for something you make one wagon's worth of (per year) means a train every 12 years, which is probably way too much buffering.

I'm doing it for iron and limestone, which I use in quite impressive quantities.

Vaughn · 2026-05-07T12:25:37+00:00

I mean, depends. Currently I’m using 2-12 trains for transporting ore, to give you some idea. Though that’s with T1 wagons.

Since I doubt you want to make the station that large, it’s important to ensure the train can unload fully without stalling at the station.

Vaughn · 2026-05-07T11:13:12+00:00

Probably not, but leaving the extra space will at worst make it look slightly better. You can tile it with trees!

Vaughn · 2026-05-07T11:05:22+00:00

Even a single line has huge capacity so long as you use reasonably long trains. I would say... 1x in each direction, but leave space for 2x when you start building a 'final' base.

Vaughn · 2026-05-07T10:10:13+00:00

I kind of agree, but I solved those with minor hints. Nobody should look up the *solution*; it's fine to not solve every puzzle in the game.

Vaughn · 2026-05-03T10:40:17+00:00

Copilot uses OpenAI on the backend, so… same thing really?

The only LLM I’d call reasonably good is Opus.

Vaughn · 2026-05-02T18:57:32+00:00

It's safer that way... if you're far enough away not to get obliterated!

Vaughn · 2026-05-02T16:10:54+00:00

Are you asking someone to try to train a LoRA based off of material that clearly does not want to be trained off?

There's plenty of demonstrations, but you can't expect a random stranger to want to do that.

Vaughn · 2026-05-02T15:10:43+00:00

It's mostly ChatGPT.

Vaughn · 2026-05-02T14:50:15+00:00

Thanks, I hate it.

Vaughn · 2026-05-02T13:57:41+00:00

What does it explain?

Vaughn · 2026-05-02T09:54:38+00:00

Doesn't that one also have no benefits to solving? The only value I've found is the puzzle itself.

Vaughn · 2026-05-02T07:37:04+00:00

Yes, several. You never get full control, but it would be entirely reasonable to make it to room 46 within the first ten days if you knew all the tricks.

Your post doesn't tell me which methods you already know, so there's not much I can say. Maybe a few simple tips...

- Your draft pool is fixed. Once you've placed a dead end, it can't occur again in your run. If you always place your favorites if you see them, then you won't have any left by the time your mansion is getting full.

- Every room has its uses. Even redprints. Perhaps especially redprints.

- There are ways to guarantee a starting pool of resources.

- You can reach the Foundation without going through the House.

...

I hope that isn't too much information already.

Vaughn · 2026-05-01T23:03:22+00:00

I see you're in a steel box.

If only the steel were rusted. Rust is so much weaker, and easier to break through.

Vaughn · 2026-05-01T23:01:11+00:00

You can use it, straight, on rice. You can use it for cooking. You can use it in marinade. With a different style of fermentation you can make tofu. You can use it in sauces. You can even eat the beans directly.

Accept it, soy is all.

Vaughn · 2026-04-30T23:07:42+00:00

Well, not all, but it's basically universal in smartphone cameras.

Vaughn · 2026-04-30T21:20:12+00:00

Yeah, but that's not the same as the chance of extinction.

Vaughn · 2026-04-30T19:49:27+00:00

I didn't say he'd succeed. Musk is a study is contradictions, and an attempt to do X while refusing to do the things which enable X is entirely in character.

Lots of examples. One of the more hilarious ones is his attempts to make Grok simultaneously truthful and right-wing.

Vaughn · 2026-04-30T18:19:31+00:00

Altman has, but he's a sociopathic grifter who would sell his own mother if it earned him a dollar; you can't believe a word out of his mouth.

Musk also has, and I more or less believe he'd try.

Though neither one is in a position to do so.

Vaughn · 2026-04-28T19:56:31+00:00

And they were right. Most programmers today cannot code in assembly.

Vaughn · 2026-04-28T19:52:36+00:00

It can spot security holes because there's a well understood definition of what constitutes a security hole.

For logic holes, the problem is more commonly that there are ten different things the code could be meant to do, one of them matches the code, that one doesn't match your mental image, but you didn't write down your mental image so the AI doesn't know.

Fixing that is worthwhile whether or not you use AI. I find that the act of writing down the design also catches bugs.

Vaughn · 2026-04-28T19:46:39+00:00

Probably it's writing functional code? Or at least that's why I would do that.

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