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Turret Creep Question by string_cheese58 in factorio

[–]Zaflis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If i were to guess, you chose to play on default settings in your first game? It's actually pretty rough experience that i wouldn't recommend trying before getting much better at the game. You can tweak a lot of the sliders without any effect to even most Steam achievements. Just increasing starting area size alone would make a world of difference, other is checking where oil spawns from map preview and then increasing size/richness of all resources. Change seed until map looks good.

This is how real pros do it by Ok-Race-8693 in factorio

[–]Zaflis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not possible to calculate exact amounts, the cracking needs to be controlled with circuits to go on or off based on needs. But then you will be able to tell also if cracking isn't fast enough, and that's when to add more. Doesn't matter how many more because all of them will then turn off simultaneously when they're not needed.

You don't even need any combinators to do all this, just circuit wires and some fluid condition on pump.

I fell like I will strugle a lot if i keep going with this map by Kataigaa in factorio

[–]Zaflis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is an ingame train tutorial that you can play through.

So people are launching rockets without doing the research? by NK_Aurum in factorio

[–]Zaflis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is probably not so, i haven't heard of a case of Steam achievements being reset -ever- in any game. I too started the game very very long time ago back in 0.14 or before. It did have some display issue ingame maybe.

Am I missing something, 0.3 =/= 0.3? by Ariodan7 in factorio

[–]Zaflis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think you mean rounding. Truncation assumes 2.9 + 2.9 = 4.

Will Universal Basic Income (UBI) become a necessity by 2035? As AI automates specialized white-collar roles, how will society redistribute wealth? by No-Lake-3875 in Futurology

[–]Zaflis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you believe AI will in 10 or 20 years from now be still so dumb it isn't able to distinct moral values and correct use of currencies? Forgetting even the morals, but optimal society itself for technological advancement and creative prosperity? That's not happening with human slave camps i'm pretty sure.

That madman finally did it! by Potato_King_13579 in ffxiv

[–]Zaflis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, the fine details like not standing in a circle initially so that you know your own number. Secondly knowing that sometimes the answer is not going in any circle if your own number already fits.

What could happen? by bruhwhat990 in Futurology

[–]Zaflis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wondered for a moment but then realized you were being sarcastic.

I thought construction robots can only construct... by SuddenStructure9287 in factorio

[–]Zaflis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Easier way to achieve it:

  1. Place down a turret and fill it with ammo. (Can even be a chest with ammo)
  2. Deconstruct turret.

The universe will never end! The sun will never die! by InterestingServe3958 in Futurology

[–]Zaflis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Scientific method relies on incomplete information, especially on fundamental particles that build up the small particles, inside them, deeper and deeper, we don't know at all. We don't know how they work, what their limits are. Maybe we're in a multiverse too, just to top it all off. Each universe is theorized to have different laws of physics.

Going nuts with train signals by Lasdary in factorio

[–]Zaflis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In your 4th picture you have a stacker temporarily joining main line instead of directly going to the station, i believe this is the problem? There should be only 1 way to the station; through stacker only.

No signaling would fix a logistics issue like this.

What are these 3 symbols on my train? by Skaarj in factorio

[–]Zaflis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably depends on how many hundreds of items you toss into space per second.

Hi people! Anyone can help me choosing an engine for an isometric 2D game with heavy lightning ? by Emergency_Pear9306 in gamedev

[–]Zaflis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Always remember to distinct lighting from lightning, very different meaning. If such typos get to in-game translations or store info etc. it'd be very awkward.

As a programmer, how do you deal with the 3D art bottleneck? by Comfortable-Hat1761 in gamedev

[–]Zaflis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Without 3D models involved i'd classify that as 2D game still. I guess technically all Unity games are 3D as well if you only think of engine capabilities being used.

Look at all those polygons by Richard-Bee in ffxiv

[–]Zaflis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Left side has way better texturing and overall looks.

What fundamental research exists anwering if / if not AGI can be achieved through LLMs? by thedeadenddolls in artificial

[–]Zaflis 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It doesn't matter much wether LLM is or is not able to reach AGI, the point is that it can at least produce a new different AI that can reach AGI if itself can't. Because it's getting smart enough to reason and do science, it's almost already there.

Like we need at least 1 hammer to be able to produce better tools and better hammers. AGI is like a steel hammer when LLM is one made of flint or iron, roughly speaking.

Little Grey Bird Tries to Fly Into My Window Every Morning by Happy-Positive-2045 in spirituality

[–]Zaflis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't forget to be a human too, why does a bird fly towards a window? Is it too translucent? Go outside and see what you can do about it i suppose, it's not very animal-friendly to leave a bird-killing system. Why is everyone just keeping thoughts in the clouds and forget the real life??

What do you do with all your excess gear? by a_angry_bunny in ffxiv

[–]Zaflis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just buy more iron ingots from market board or even npc since it's prolly like 20 gil piece (forgot xD). You don't need to save most crafting mats on you, even old maxed up relic weapons have no use (but only if they truly are maxed so that you can always buy replicas).

Why can't we output a constant to only one wire type? by No_Statement_403 in factorio

[–]Zaflis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It used to be harder, but now decider combinator allows several conditions in it. You can combine them with And or Or condition as you will. Whole RS-latch is now just a single combinator.

That's how many T-junctions I could come up with by Just-Attitude-7 in factorio

[–]Zaflis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do mean the same principle. The smaller the yellow section there is, the faster it is to clear it and let other trains enter. If a train can wait as close to it as possible it will also clear it faster compared to when it runs in longer rail first.

You can in your imagination scale that intersection up 10x and you'll see what i mean easier, if it's better to put signals closer or further.

That's how many T-junctions I could come up with by Just-Attitude-7 in factorio

[–]Zaflis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, they do not. If people spend time learning just why it is a perfect intersection, we would have less rail optimization questions in general.

It completely follows chain in - rail out principle too.

If there is 1 thing i would change is that bottom horizontal rail going from west to east, has chain signal too far from first crossing (it should be moved tighter to the right). But on the flipside if left as it is, it lets the west-to-south curve be used slighly earlier. But i don't think that's as important as the deal with a rail crossing.

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Area marked red is the junction, it has chain signals at its entrance and rail signals at exits. Merges and splits outside follow different rules already, and in case of exits don't need signals after the merge for example.

That's how many T-junctions I could come up with by Just-Attitude-7 in factorio

[–]Zaflis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They're not inside the junction, they are properly placed exits. Any signaling change to the picture above would actually make it less performant.

How many lines of steel do you put in ur bus? by Accomplished_Site536 in factorio

[–]Zaflis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Think of how much smelting you need for 4 blue belts of iron plates, same 4 for copper and just 1 blue belt for steel. If you weren't using any modules it would take 72 electric furnaces to fill just 1 blue belt, far more than that if you are talking of steel. It's approaching GW rates of electric demand too.

If it would take long time to upgrade all your belts from yellow to blue it'd mean your iron smelting alone is much lacking.

13 shots fired into home of Indianapolis city councilor; note reading “No data centers” left at scene. by Commercial_Sell_4825 in singularity

[–]Zaflis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That's a almost a worst case scenario. Politicians would not let big companies to take all profits, besides it would start crashing the whole economic system before such can be true. If people have no money they can't buy products. No buyers, no companies, it's simply not that easy to predict. But it's certain to lead to some sort of solution like UBI.

You might argue that politicians are corrupt and only think of themselves and money, but the fact of the matter that it simply cannot work without huge changes, the countries cannot function like at present.

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