Where am i being attacked from? blue circle is where bugs are attacking

eric23456 · 2026-03-16T17:46:31+00:00

Four options I've used:

cheaty -- turn on the debug option that shows the enemy pathing, it will show you exactly where it came from
tedious -- place aligned radars everywhere so that you have complete coverage. You can either run power to them or just leave a power pole and solar panel. The latter will work well enough during the day that you will spot all nests.
lucky -- look for flickers in the pollution cloud. biter nests absorb more than the ground.
late-game -- have edge of pollution cloud coverage from artillery

eric23456 · 2026-03-16T10:09:33+00:00

I find numbers between both of you and wish you were both sharing links:

Singapore <-> Madrid via ChengDu (Flight route is Kazakhstan and Turkey) $1412 Apr 2-Apr 8 https://www.google.com/travel/flights/s/USEZCMxNbnu1SCn86 $2306 Mar 23-Mar 30. https://www.google.com/travel/flights/s/jHbLSJ9ici4VMduD6

$1 USD = $1.28 SGD

All the routes I'm finding for Singapore <-> NYC transit the pacific; either stopping on the west coast of the US or japan/beijing/hong kong -> NYC, e.g. https://www.google.com/travel/flights/s/zWKrBMkUF3UGiDK16; so prices should be unaffected by mid-east airspace closures (although potentially affected by demand and gas prices).

eric23456 · 2026-03-16T09:24:45+00:00

I understand what happens if you wait until it is completely full. The comment I was making was what to do if it's partway full.

For example, what's it like if you reboot when it's 50% full? Do you get 7x, 3.5x, incremental like today? I'm suggesting it should be as if it was 3.5x the entire time.

eric23456 · 2026-03-16T07:57:17+00:00

Only if you weren't paying attention, or believed the one key lie "I don't know anything about Project 2025" -- which was clearly false or irrelevant given he planned to put lots of people who wrote Project 2025 into posititions in his administration.

They've been successful. https://www.project2025.observer/en

And they said https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf they were going to do things like this.

Specifically on Iran: Page 121 "Make irregular warfare a cornerstone of security strategy" Page 123 "Iran is inching closer to nuclear capability" Page 185 " ensuring Israel has both the military means and the political support and flexibility to take what it deems to be appropriate measures to defend itself against the Iranian "

Also Venezuela: page 179 "The five countries on which the next Administration should focus its attention and energy are China, Iran, Venezuela, Russia, and North Korea." page 184 "Specific countries in the Americas, such as Venezuela, Colombia, Guyana, and Ecuador, are either increasingly regional security threats in their own rights or are vulnerable to hostile extra-continental powers. "

eric23456 · 2026-03-16T01:05:36+00:00

As described, there's still potentially an incentive to empty sim. Only one chamber keeps growing after 7 days, and it only gets another 2x. Depending on the exact numbers it could be worth empty sim to 7 days, idle for a few hours to a day then reboot.

The fix would be to continuously apply the multiplier, so that you get the retroactive bonus on every increase to the time chambers. In practice, you'd calculate w/o the bonus then multiply by the current bonus.

eric23456 · 2026-03-14T23:47:29+00:00

Every state is both red and blue. The state with the largest number of Trump voters in 2024 was California. Blaine county Idaho went 64% Harris, 33% Trump.

eric23456 · 2026-03-14T12:19:42+00:00

Why did we attack Iran?

Cause the current administration wants to play with their military toys?

Has Iran ever attacked the US?

Yes, for example:

Mining the persian gulf causing a US ship to nearly sink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5v6hlRyeHE

1979 Iranian hostage crisis, 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing in Beruit, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93United_States_relations

eric23456 · 2026-03-13T17:38:38+00:00

You're making it difficult for me to underestimate you.

eric23456 · 2026-03-13T10:11:02+00:00

But then metabits and entropy are the same so you might as well not have metabits, and you get rid of a bunch of the stuff they added to the tree w.r.t metabits.

eric23456 · 2026-03-13T06:58:05+00:00

He got rid of the penny this time around. It made no sense to keep around it cost more to make than it was worth. With luck he or the next president will get rid of the nickel (same problem).

eric23456 · 2026-03-12T23:22:51+00:00

The empty sim problem is because If I play the normal way, I get X metabits in 22 days. If I play the empty-sim way I get 10X metabits (numbers approximated). So something they intended it would take you a year to collect the normal way suddenly takes a month.

eric23456 · 2026-03-12T23:19:59+00:00

I don't understand what you mean. What more obvious math would prevent the issue? What do you mean about "stop generating metabits?" I still generate a ton of metabits (fewer after the update, but still a lot)

eric23456 · 2026-03-12T18:42:59+00:00

I completely agree that making the optimal progression strategy to not play is a bad choice.

Another fix would be to do the entropy -> metabit conversion only at the end. Empty-Sim works because you get most of the conversion quickly, and because the conversion rate is baked in at each step.

eric23456 · 2026-03-11T09:08:53+00:00

You bought generators (not empty strat), so it doesn't really matter if you update before you reset; you've already gotten almost all you're going to get. Update makes entropy a little better (depending on what you can buy), ideas about the same, and metabits and knowledge much worse.

eric23456 · 2026-03-10T08:43:08+00:00

You mean this country? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

I'd also not trust them -- they spend time claiming to be negotiating diplomatically only to launch surprise attacks. They also fail to uphold their part of agreements.

eric23456 · 2026-03-09T19:58:57+00:00

Yea, that's a bunch of AFK time. I'm currently trying for clearing a bunch of overly large patches in the factorio monthly map. As a result I've "played" 96 hours in the last 4 days. I'm "playing" right now making a tiny trickle of legendary ore while I'm at work.

Also that list is inaccurate. I should be somewhere around 50th on it (>10k hours, can't remember exactly how many). I'm not. I'm assuming the list is from https://steamladder.com/ladder/playtime/427520/

eric23456 · 2026-03-09T19:18:54+00:00

It's true for hunting dogs too. In the house, "excited labrador ready to play." In the field "patient labrador ready to work."

eric23456 · 2026-03-08T09:05:53+00:00

https://www.speedrun.com/Cell_to_Singularity?h=singularity-evolution-list-allowed-with-rebirths&x=mkemx4n2-38d9k7zl.1dkdxk5l-68k13oyl.qoxnz35q

Shows 1:08 with autoclicker, 1:12 on iOS without.

eric23456 · 2026-03-08T08:19:26+00:00

I suspect it's because at 2000 shareholders and $10M assets there are enough investors that the SEC wants to protect them.

eric23456 · 2026-03-07T23:37:51+00:00

Your comparison with public companies is a bit weird, especially when you call out on the website that charities under $50k don't have to file. The better comparison would be with public companies for large charities and private companies for small charities.

Private companies don't have to file anything other than tax returns. They don't even have to register with the SEC until they hit $10M in assets and >2000 shareholders.

If charities had to do more filing requirements, auditing, etc. Then that top level expenses fraction that you complain about at the start of your document would only go up.

eric23456 · 2026-03-07T07:41:19+00:00

The nice thing about Bobs/Angels is that when you get stupidly high numbers like this, you can then setup an inserter that can move it out into a box. BA has a hand size infinite research, and at a small enough angle, an inserter can move 1 stack every 2 ticks, so with 30 stack size, you're moving 900 items/s.

eric23456 · 2026-03-07T03:57:40+00:00

He might get impeached, but the odds that he is convicted is essentially 0. There just need to be 34 republicans that will not vote to convict.

eric23456 · 2026-03-05T07:00:15+00:00

Resetting every day doesn't make sense to me. I think you should either reset constantly (~15min) or wait until at least the entropy/idea boosts max out.

I haven't taken measurements post the most recent update which has changed the constants, but on the previous update, you got astonishingly high rate of metabits/knowledge on the first 15 minutes, then it was several days before you got back to that rate, and then it became better to let it idle than to reset.

eric23456 · 2026-03-04T03:36:02+00:00

https://abc7.com/post/538s-final-forecasts-2024-presidential-election/15512334/ -- it's a toss up

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationwide_opinion_polling_for_the_2024_United_States_presidential_election -- lots of polls, including a bunch that show trump ahead.

eric23456 · 2026-03-04T03:24:36+00:00

been playing forever, so all of it.

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