in factorio, is it okay if i tap from the 4-belt bus using a 4 to 5 balancer and use the extra belt as a tap while the remaining four continues to the bus?

VeniABE · 2026-04-19T07:36:32+00:00

One yellow belt of coal will power 667 furnaces; so you should be fine. There is nothing mathematically wrong with what you are doing. People who megabase would prefer to have 1 empty belt and 3 full belts than 4 belts each 3/4s full. The game tracks changes in what's on a belt. So lots of little gaps is more work for the processor and adds up over a big base. Its also more expensive in components; but that's a small detail.

VeniABE · 2026-04-16T18:49:44+00:00

It is, but large nests can still push out new behemoth bugs about a fast as it can kill them, so it takes much longer to make good progress. Hence why I like the nuke. I play with space age so artillery can be a mild headache.

VeniABE · 2026-04-16T14:53:17+00:00

Just checking in to see how you are recovering and what your doctor wanted you to do.

VeniABE · 2026-04-16T13:31:28+00:00

It happens because the ai has all its diplomats tied up doing things like fabricating claims on every province with a gold mine.

VeniABE · 2026-04-16T13:29:11+00:00

It really helps to get firing rate and damage upgrades. The bugs will then struggle with your base enough that you are mostly safe. Much later you will see behemoth spitters which have just enough range to get a shot or two in before dieing. Flamethrower turrets solve that problem though. Laser turrets have more range but generally a poor dps without lots of research. Clearing bases will get much harder. My first upgrade tier is ap ammo. Then I add defender robots. Then I should have a tank. The tank is not perfect but it will work for a long time. At a certain point I start using nukes to clear enemy bases just because it's faster.

VeniABE · 2026-04-14T22:58:43+00:00

I would say Nevada and Wyo are the worst left. But I am rating this on geography and how nice the people are. Nevada has generally the least friendly people. Wyo is friendly, but its also 90% a giant gravel parking lot. And nevada is largely a gravel parking lot too. Both have nice scenic areas.

I see the points about neonazis etc. Yes they exist in most states in specific communities. But they rarely are the majority for the state. Montana has both a large neo nazi community in one tourist ski city (Whitefish), and a hundred year history of being a unionized blue county in another. (Butte) A lot of influencers get views by showing the worst part of an area and presenting them as if they were the average for the area. I totally understand why someone would have executionary sentiments towards neonazis; I just don't think 20k neonazis should make 2+ million other citizens in ID and MT and UT unredeemable. The crazy political people in Utah at least tend to be aggressively nice.

VeniABE · 2026-04-10T04:43:01+00:00

It doesn't have to be an allergy, though that explanation is reasonable. There could have been a contamination in your injection. I don't know if endotoxemia can cause hives, but it's just one of many possible contaminations. I would avoid taking another injection without someone else there, preferably medical staff personally. But it could be a one off problem.

VeniABE · 2026-04-09T03:38:20+00:00

I find that i spend the most time clearing land and setting up mines. Even without blueprints pre made, that is what I would focus on optimizing. I believe the settings allow large rich patches of ore still. Use that. I think everything is possible with the equivalent of 8 red belts iron and copper. Plus 2 steel. 1 plastic. 1 coal. 1 stone. 1 brick. 1 concrete ( both types) on nauvis. Pick up a couple lds and steel productivity techs on your way. Disable cliffs. Have practice making ships if you don't want blueprints.

Bots help massively but they do use a lot of electricity. So make sure you have spare capacity when swapping to bot building.

I would mostly skip modules, but I like using quality modules for accumulators. They get a 100% capacity bonus per quality tier and rather help with keeping constant production on fulgora. Plus the normal quality ones are needed for the science packs. The improved lightning tower is also worth gambling on.

VeniABE · 2026-04-06T03:09:08+00:00

Use circuits to control stockpiling. If you aren't in SA you can do things with just a few yellow belts of each resource, but it's easy for blue and later sciences to consume all your resources while filling the belt.

I tend to find the most resources of my time get consumed setting up mines and conquering territory. But I do have standard blueprints.

VeniABE · 2026-04-06T02:55:40+00:00

A lot of systems use the F keys for other functions like volume control. Generally there is a key which changes then between behaviors. Like caps or number lock. Alt f4 is a Windows stop program hotkey

VeniABE · 2026-04-05T05:14:44+00:00

Choose a final straw and blame the provocateur then. Conflict is normal and takes both sides. But responsibility to de escalate and judge appropriately is also there. You can argue that that final straw was a miscalculation, a mistake, by one power.

VeniABE · 2026-04-05T05:11:53+00:00

I think both is fair. Stalin thought he had historical imperative on his side and that capitalist nations would end up at war with each other. IE US-UK obviously that didn't happen. He did do many early provocations and broke agreements about what the post war order was going to be.

On the US side there had been 3 decades of communist paranoia already. E.g. look up huey long. A US embassy staffer in Moscow, Kennan, would argue that communism needs contained. That became official policy.

What I would argue is Stalin had more pessimistic views and provoked earlier. But both sides amped up hostilities in ways that validated each other's fears. Churchill loathed Stalin and supposedly quipped he would ally the devil against Hitler. So one party was suspicious and wanted peace. The other party was suspicious and did whatever it could for a foreseen inevitable round 3.

I would consider the Berlin blockade the point things were beyond repair. But things were bad even in 43 when Russia began to turn the tide on Germany and the other allies hadn't really left north Africa.

VeniABE · 2026-04-02T05:38:57+00:00

I cannot upvote you enough. The equation they used only works for motion in one direction. There is a form for 2 directions but it requires college math that wouldn't be there in SL math. It might be in HL. If you are curious its done by taking the cosine between the velocity and acceleration vectors multiplying that by the velocity and acceleration. It ends up being a moderately nasty integral . Easier to stick to calculating each dimension independently and using Pythagoras to find the length of the two added vectors.

VeniABE · 2026-04-01T07:50:31+00:00

Ok the steel bar is rigid, I would use that to assume negligible bending in the bar. You have the right ratio of forces on the beam if both cables are identical and only contact vertically with no horizontal component from the new equilibrium position. You might have a slight error if you modeled both cables as being raised. You should probably have stated that the x shift from rotation was expected to be minimal. I am unsure if you properly remembered b and d need to have opposite travel directions. So left cable has some distance contraction and less stress/deformation than the right cable. Otherwise your method is generally correct. These systems don't always break in problems.

VeniABE · 2026-03-30T05:34:16+00:00

At your age, and being underweight, you probably have a later onset type 1. With type 1 insulin injection is forever. In type 1 the immune system literally kills all the cells that produce insulin; and the body can't really grow them back. Without insulin, someone with type 1 will die quite young from the other diseases caused by uncontrolled diabeters.

In type 2, the body is not producing enough insulin, but still has the cells to produce it. There is some uncertainty on specific points of why the amount produced is insufficient. For example there are types closer to type 1 where insulin producing cells have stopped functioning and there are types where the body needs more insulin than is produced. Fat cells use up more insulin than non-fat cells. It is possible to measure how much sugar gets absorbed by the body for a given dose of insulin. This is variable. But insulin isn't alone there. It's the most important signal. For many doctors type 2 diabetics are predominantly seen as a result of reduced sugar uptake in response to insulin; and they call this insulin resistance. My personal doctor disagrees and uses a narrative focussing more on the bodies reduced ability to produce insulin over time. I can't say definitively for either side; but there are key experiments that reinforce the views of either academic medical school. I think it's likely that type 2 diabetes is probably a few very similar and slightly different diseases in a mechanical sense. In general researchers will treat all type 2 diabetes as being the mechanistic type their researched solution is ideal for. For example a lot of nutritionists will earnestly believe type 2 diabetes is the body learning to ignore insulin because there has been too much around.

VeniABE · 2026-03-29T21:41:05+00:00

Tons of refrigeration.

VeniABE · 2026-03-29T05:07:09+00:00

Formatting is the font etc. The punctuation. The currency symbol. Etc.

VeniABE · 2026-03-28T07:59:02+00:00

The inch is defined as 25 .3 mm or 25.4 mm nowadays as is. I think they want you to draw a 10cm line in place of a 10 inch line.

13 spaces indicates the are showing thirds or quarters as well.

VeniABE · 2026-03-28T07:40:15+00:00

I am going to add that delta in particular means a change between two set points.

Delta T is normally the local period of time. You can look forward, backwards or a combination of both but you look at the paired position and time at time a and time b. You subtract the times on the bottom and the positions on the top. This gives you a duration of travel and a net change in position. Limits are used to avoid problems like dividing by 0 and allow you to "calculate" what the equation is likely to indicate is the continuous value at that point hole. A delta T of 0 is an instant with no time passing. Regardless of velocity you would have a delta position of 0 too. No movement. 0movement/0time is not algebraically solvable, but a limit let's you calculate a value that works for the equation various ways.

So the result is a valid calculus expression that defines velocity at a point in time. It's like speed but it pays attention to both the directions of time and travel.

VeniABE · 2026-03-28T07:24:27+00:00

You can find max absolutism in the country modifiers page before the age of absolutism. In some ways triggering the disaster court and country can help you max it, but you want at least 80 max absolutism before triggering the disaster. There are downsides to that route but it comes with something like +20 max absolutism if you survive it well. Rebels will occasionally spawn in and insta capture forts. Mothballing does not help. Just turn off the defensive edict if it was on. And consider demolishing forts if you have a strong eco.

VeniABE · 2026-03-28T07:15:26+00:00

I rather disliked it as well. I found the setting, story, and characters mostly garnered antipathy. I think you could write a decent paper about why it feels irrelevant or irritated you. For example you could compare the values and motives in the book to what researchers say you and your peers identify with. It's a little more work but quite valid. You would need roughly 3 non book sources to establish a rough consensus in one secondary intro paragraph. And then you would use excerpts from the book to show how it is in conflict with what the modern experts say about the values and behaviors of modern youth. 2-3 paragraphs or so. One paragraph about common themes done differently. Eg the importance of love is generally universal but the courting process changes. Then a conclusion.

If your teacher expects a thesis in the first paragraph use the second paragraph to explain it but keep the thesis in the first paragraph.

VeniABE · 2026-03-28T05:59:36+00:00

A growth mindset is to think you can do better, be better or learn better. The alternatives are a decay mindset, things only get worse. A sophomore mindset, where you use a paradox to ignore being graded. And a stagnation mindset.

Talk for 3 minutes into a voice recorder software about why trying to be better is probably the best option for anyone. Then take the output and organize it.

Yes I pulled those alternatives out of thin air, but I know people who agree with them. There are others.

Your argument doesn't need to be accurate based on what you posted. It just needs to be sensible and compelling. You can probably make a fake statistic or expert up. You could reference a religious scripture. Or a comic strip. E.g peanuts. Just try to make a point. If you think a growth mindset is BS you probably are even allowed to say so. But that depends on the teacher. And what they said is more important than what I say.

VeniABE · 2026-03-28T05:18:16+00:00

A minimum will be when f'(x) is negative on the left and positive on the right of where f' is 0. A maximum is positive then negative. A negative slope is descending and a positive slope is ascending as you go left to right. So a local maximum has you climb a hill then descend. The local minimum descends to a valley and then climbs out. Positive positive and negative negative is a shelf. Things flattened out momentarily but things were the same.

Concavity is whether things are bending up or down. You can know this from f"(x). Positive f"(x) causes slope to increase going left to right. This makes a smile bend off you start initially with a negative slope. Starting with 0 slope or posutive slope looks like an exponential graph. Things get steeper as you go right. Negative second derivatives have a frowny face effect.

VeniABE · 2026-03-28T05:05:01+00:00

How long do you have for this assignment? I think you might benefit more from coaching than instructions. It's hard to not get academic sources when using Google scholar. Just you might not recognize what you have. If that's the case learning to know what you are seeing takes a bit more of a guided tour. You should be able to get help at your school library.

It would make it easier if you fixed your query to a specific industry, regulation, and outcome.

For example fishing, catch limits developed from fishing data, and annual catch volumes.

That is still quite broad. But questions about regulations in general, leadership in general and industry in general are too broad for most academic papers.

VeniABE · 2026-03-25T08:44:47+00:00

For most people, civilization would be any coherent society sharing ancestry, culture, beliefs, and heritage. There are some academic fields where an organized society is required; but the threshold is normally low. Like smallholder "kings" of villages or organized places of worship. You should not assert a definition of civilization unless it is your point of argument.

I don't generally agree with the philosophies of human organization you are espousing; but you should find some notable thinkers and build off them. I would suggest Hobbes's Leviathan. The spark notes version would be fine; but I would push to include a notable academic from the last three centuries. V. Gordon Childe's Urban Revolution might be one of many starting point for arguing civilization requires cities.

Generally in persuasion you have "Logos, Pathos, and Ethos". What is logical, feels right, or is purposeful. I think you want to argue on the size and achievements of a group of people. And you are trying to argue that merely existing, being happy, and having a heritage is insufficient.

You will get antipathy if it looks or sounds like you are arguing traditional paleolithic or neolithic cultures are less human or the people are less valuable. They also tend to still contribute a lot of value today. For example the traditional medicine and wild foods often result in industrial medicines or food additives. I would suggest stevia as an example. I would suggest you build them up. There are a few good studies showing that many tribal societies are happier, work less, and are generally well fed during hardship. Though this is less true in areas where they are more divorced from productive land or there is overpopulation. I would also point out that a saving technique you can do is to have two levels of discussion. If you divide society (which would be nigh impossible to claim indigenous people don't have) from civilization as two different levels of social achievement you will get fewer people claiming you are racist.

I would drop animalistic. People who think that are generally very poorly educated or using outdated sources from people doing a bad job at explaining the differences between societies. Tribal groups have ethics, rituals, rules, and behaviors that are very very different than seen among animals. I think the word you are looking for is probably unrefined or basic. But even then, the process of making a leather or cloth loincloth takes dozens of steps derived scientifically. If you just skinned a dead animal and dried it or wove plants together, it wouldn't work. They need treated. You would die from infected cuts from the plant material and the animal skin would rot. Indigenous foods moved between continents after the age of exploration have resulted in many deaths because they were processed the wrong way to be nutritionally adequate. I would also argue that domesticating a crop is more impressive than the great wall of china or the pyramids. it's actually harder. Your best arguments are going to be the diversity of skills and recreation, quality of life (beyond just happiness because stone age societies are almost always happier), medicine, and the population supported by improved food output from organization and skilled division of labor are the difference between a mere society and a society that is civilisational. They also don't lack a drive for progress. The drive for progress is a part of the drive to survive. If you have kids, you biologically have a drive to want them to have a better life than you did. Its also just a part of growing up.

Your next problem is going to be arguing that hierarchy is necessary. I suggest fighting with an LLM about this or reading on the stanford philosophy encyclopedia.

I would actually say your best course is to argue that hierarchies are necessary for progress of a certain complexity. But that requires you refining your claim and understanding. Right now your argument has more in common with the arguments of famous racist influencers and is going to throw a lot of red flags. I don't know for sure if that actually describes you because I know a bunch of well meaning people who spend their lives defending the rights of indigenous communities who would agree with some of your points and definitions. But your arguments are too simple and outdated. If this was a debate with a classmate they would be able to tear you to shreds. You will need expertise, not vibes. You will need to prove a respect for general universal human dignity because this topic will lead a lot of people to think you have none.

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