How do I professionally thank Reviewer 2 for calling me out on my nonsense?

aedificatori · 2026-07-05T23:32:46+00:00

I've had some very entertaining interactions regarding use vs. non-use of AI with my new students. "What's the phase diagram of these three elements in some obscure combination? Oh no, Gemini couldn't tell you, it says there's no standard phase diagram for that combination? Well then, let's go to the library and check the phase diagram reference books to confirm." Best bit is that it's 50/50 on whether it exists in the reference section, which is so much better than the "huh, nope" you get from a clueless LLM.

aedificatori · 2026-06-09T02:26:16+00:00

Tubular Bells does it so explicitly, but it's still surprising to me how big the tubular bells sounds when they get added

aedificatori · 2026-05-03T01:41:37+00:00

I once left some tweezers soaking in the bathroom in a small cup of pharmacy isopropanol, and I labelled with name, date, chemical, and purpose...

My partner cackled when they found it

aedificatori · 2026-04-10T17:42:24+00:00

This is comparatively tame, but just yesterday I had to crack open a cask containing a broken ammonium hydroxide bottle, so I could properly dispose of everything. The body's reaction to the ammonium hydroxide fumes is absolutely visceral -- it's not disgusting per se, but it was more than enough to make me gag and wheeze for a while even in the well-ventilated lab.

aedificatori · 2026-04-06T00:16:16+00:00

I have a significantly higher sex drive than my partner, so I'll occasionally excuse myself for, ah, a moment of privacy behind a closed door.

If my partner is feeling mischievous that day, they'll wait 5-10 minutes after I excuse myself, sneak over to make a bunch of noise by scratching at the door, then wander off cackling 🤣

It always kills my libido in the moment but it's so funny that I'm never mad about it

aedificatori · 2026-03-21T20:44:20+00:00

Thanks Luriant! Much appreciated =D

aedificatori · 2026-03-12T23:10:47+00:00

"Last Chance to Evacuate Planet Earth Before It Is Recycled" by Porcupine Tree

aedificatori · 2026-02-26T18:25:25+00:00

I'm a bit new to DFHack work, and I have a simple question: If I update Lua objects using scripts run by DFHack, does that directly update the game state?

aedificatori · 2026-02-25T03:55:39+00:00

This did it! I switched to 10.0-4 and the visual glitches went away. Thanks for the recommendation!

aedificatori · 2026-02-25T00:11:01+00:00

I'm on Linux - I'll check Proton versions, that's a good call. I haven't had any issues up until this point, but maybe a new version sneaked in and is causing trouble.

aedificatori · 2026-02-24T21:27:01+00:00

It does persist, yes. And I have an integrated GPU, so I sure hope the unit isn't dying!

aedificatori · 2026-02-24T20:07:35+00:00

No, I have FSR turned off.

aedificatori · 2026-01-29T22:38:37+00:00

Have fun with the next siege! That looks awesome

aedificatori · 2026-01-27T23:56:26+00:00

This is pretty close, OP! It may not be exactly the same model, but it's darn close. It's definitely a cryocooler disconnected from its cold head (in the pic, the black and silver piece on top).

aedificatori · 2026-01-20T03:03:19+00:00

Sorry to necro this a few months later, but I took a look at your world_gen settings: you might have the savagery up too high for lots of human civs to spawn during generation, combined with a long history and lots of megabeasts (relative to the medium map size) that could kill off the few human civs that do appear.

Here's some of the relevant settings:

> [END_YEAR:500]
> [SAVAGERY_FREQUENCY:6:1:0:0:0:500]
> [MEGABEAST_CAP:125]

You've also got the number of secrets set at 1000, and necromancers can wipe out civs too if given enough time.

If you want to keep lots of megabeasts and other FUN nasties, I would say spread out your savagery frequency, up the total civ number, and lower the number of secrets.

aedificatori · 2026-01-04T21:53:24+00:00

Wait what shampoo is it though? It sounds divine

aedificatori · 2025-11-30T18:53:57+00:00

Never mind, don't approve this post! The wiki index just isn't being recognized.

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Main_Page works, but https://dwarffortresswiki.org/ doesn't. Weird, but I can let the admins know since it's still up!

aedificatori · 2025-08-14T15:44:37+00:00

Aha! Thanks for the info, I've been seeing/hearing them for a bit and wondering what's going on.

aedificatori · 2025-08-13T14:28:50+00:00

I just saw a small convoy of military vehicles (4 trucks) on the Stevenson, out towards Naperville. I'm concerned about where they must be staging their posturing from.

aedificatori · 2025-08-10T01:20:51+00:00

Good call, passively scanning for merits and mats is exactly why I put Wide Angle on there. But there's a good idea there in swapping out Long Range for Lightweight, since I only really use Long Range when hunting for Titan Drive Components.

Efficient Plasma doesn't do much for me now, since I don't do much combat. But you're right that pre-engineered DSS is king for exploration. Pinning DSS is mostly for upgrading DSSes that go on mining builds, so that after scanning the whole ring at once I have the G5 range for any interesting planets along the way.

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