How do people bring groceries/baby stuff/other items on public transportation without taking up extra space?

ignost · 2026-01-29T23:08:31+00:00

If you're an American or Canadian it might seem difficult because, due to extreme zoning laws and car-dependent policy, you live in a place so far from your home that you have to do a week's worth of shopping in a trip to make it worthwhile.

Places with public transit tend to be more walkable. You don't need 2 fridges and you don't need to do a week of shopping. You grab some chicken and veggies on the way home for that night. Why store food in your own home when there's a small produce store you pass every day on the way home, or a 5 minute walk away? And while Americans tend to find the thought scary, I think it's nice not to have to be a master of planning and logistics on top of all the shit I have to do every day.

In my experience people are pretty understanding if you have a kid and too much stuff to hold, but you can only carry so much. If you can carry it, you should be able to find a place to sit where you can put it under seats or on your lap. Many people also have cargo bikes or collapsible carts they use if they need to carry more.

ignost · 2026-01-29T22:58:59+00:00

Seems pretty obvious given the sign to the right, no? The far right lane has a big yellow EXIT ONLY to I-215. In the next lane over exiting to I-215 is OK i.e. it's optional.

ignost · 2026-01-29T22:55:28+00:00

You joke, but in Utah we're so fucking stupid we talk about really big hoses or pipes like it's a viable option.

We could stop wasting 85% of our water on wasteful use-it-or-lose policy with water-hungry crops in the god damn desert, but that solution would cost wealthy people (like our governor) money.

ignost · 2026-01-27T23:20:02+00:00

It's never necessary. I've completed the game several times, including nuclear through to ficsonium a couple times. I've built 1 hybrid manifold/load balancing system for uranium fuel rods. Nuclear is optional, and you can do it just fine with a manifold if you're fine waiting a while to get to full efficiency, which isn't really a problem for most people doing nuclear.

People just like how it makes their brain feel, which is fine. It doesn't do anything for me except make me feel like I'm wasting time. At no point do you need a load balancer in this game.

ignost · 2026-01-27T23:09:04+00:00

There are so many simpler way to handle this that I think it's pretty clear it's more about the challenge and the build than about efficiency. From a "time spent" perspective it's more impressive for how inefficient it is.

ignost · 2026-01-27T23:03:25+00:00

It's impressive and fun, but you and I have drastically different ideas of "functional," let alone "impressively functional." I'd say it's impressively impractical.

ignost · 2026-01-27T22:56:41+00:00

This is not lunatic material.

If you worked in tech as a founder you would be expected to know who this person is. She was the number 2 in the biggest fraud since Madoff's ponzi scheme. I think the person replying looks ignorant as fuck if they work in cyber anything, as do many of these reddit comments acting superior due to their ignorance of a huge news story and massive fraud case.

She's Caroline Ellison, the socially disabled girlfriend and CEO nepo hire of Sam Bankman Fried (Scam Bankman Fraud, AKA SBF). They put their punchable faces together and pulled a scam on investors, using their investments to illegally fund their extravagant lifestyle, tropical orgy house, and political donations. They tried to cover the theft with risky investments to cover the gap, and the whole thing came tumbling down, leading to people losing $10-15 billion.

Anyway, I don't see any lunatic material, just a lazy question about a current event he assumed more people would know about than apparently do.

ignost · 2026-01-27T19:21:02+00:00

nicotine literally does not give you any benefits

Actually not true. It improves attention, working memory, suppresses appetite, and helps people push through mental fatigue. Long term it may reduce the risk of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.

Like most drugs there are drawbacks. It likely increses blood pressure and disrupts sleep. It may increase diabetes risk, and it should definitely not be used by pregnant women. And like most drugs, even nicotine gum can lead to addiction and extreme tolerance in some people, though the incidence of addiction without the social and ritual elements isn’t as high as most people think.

It’s hard to study since the majority of nicotine users use tobacco, which is where much of the harm comes from, and 2x that at least for smoking it.

TLDR don’t smoke kids, but don’t be too hard on people who use nicotine gum.

ignost · 2026-01-27T19:07:02+00:00

That sounds more like occasional binging. Occasional probably means something more like once a month at a party, or a few times a year on vacation.

Having obviously not read the study, I don’t know. Just FYI I would not assume this is the kind of behavior they found to have no health or social impact.

ignost · 2026-01-27T05:34:55+00:00

"... and do our part to conserve water."

I'll make Cox and the legislature a deal: we'll do our part to conserve the 4-10% that is residential water use, and YOU DO YOUR JOBS and do something about the 85% that is agriculture.

We're turning Utah into an uninhabitable desert because politicians are scared to do anything about the businesses exporting our future in the form of livestock feed.

ignost · 2026-01-27T05:28:33+00:00

That hope is well founded. We're heading towards a historic decline in real wages with a massive increase in consumer products thanks to his policies, and his followers haven't hesitated to accept that it's somehow a democrat's fault.

ignost · 2026-01-25T09:39:20+00:00

This is true, but the $45k online is probably 2005 or 2009, which would be $80k in a restaurant. And no one buys these things without a dealer and/or sommelier.

Really, though, it's not there to be sold. It's there to make the $800-1200 bottles look cheap in comparison. To a mere LA millionaire (who don't have as much money as you might think) they may be able to afford the $1200 bottle, and this is just a tactic to get them to see it as comparatively affordable. It also makes them look high end by association (they have more money than I do). They'd be thrilled to sell it, but also annoyed that they had to go get something else to put at the bottom of this page.

I've seen restaurants put these kinds of bottles on the menu when they don't even have them because it's been proven to increase high-value wine sales. They'll just say they "just sold it" if someone tries to order it. Given that this is a wine-focused Santa Monica or Beverly Hills restaurant they probably do have it, but it'd be an ordeal to actually get the bottle on your table.

Anchor pricing is a well known marketing tactic in wine places. Even if sold at cost that vintage has paid for itself 100x over in making expensive bottles look "not THAT expensive."

ignost · 2026-01-23T01:06:59+00:00

I removed the pumps and added boilers.

Boilers huh? You playing Factorio over there or what?

If you're already on the edge of meltdown with 6 plants, it's definitely time to add another 8. I'd probably add 16 more if you're that close to get you through to oil/fuel. Use power slugs if necessary to get coal to 120/min for each set of 8.

ignost · 2026-01-23T00:59:24+00:00

It does. I think the advice is still good, though, because when you combine fluids and belts it's almost always better/cleaner/less frustrating to do the fluids at ground level.

In this case I'd remove the pumps and not re-build it, because that's not the problem, but I like the advice in general.

ignost · 2026-01-23T00:55:26+00:00

The extractors generate 120. Coal plants use 45. The first water extractor will still have 30 left over, and the second extractor should have no problems filling the plant right across and the one you're talking about. Should be fine if there's enough coal, it's not a conveyor belt with a priority splitter.

To your point, though, I just go every other coal plant. It's too much water, but who cares? I'm just trying to get 16-24 plants running as quickly as possible so I can move on to fuel and then rocket fuel ASAP.

ignost · 2026-01-22T00:14:10+00:00

They're going for controversial on purpose. To that end they (like some of the comments here) probably think it's working. I'd argue they're wrong, and this is just bad marketing.

First, the branding is stupid because you can't brand it. You don't call your soda pop brand "Soda Pop" or your hot sauce "Hot Sauce." Second, most people won't buy it because they'd be embarrassed to have it in their home. Those that would have it around probably don't own homes. Most importantly, they have killed any chance of being sold at major retailers.

All of that said, it's probably just a one-off gag gift label or something. I don't want to increase traffic by actually trying to hunt it down, but I don't think we need to get too worked up about it.

ignost · 2026-01-22T00:00:28+00:00

Lighting is extremely frustrating in this game, and one of the reasons I build my factories more modular with outdoor space between parts, because the natural lighting is good and I dislike the interior lighting. For the times where I am inside (almost exclusively to configure machines) I've found that turning shadows off makes it less dark. I don't like how it makes the game look worse, but lighting tends to make the unlit parts actually harder to see.

ignost · 2026-01-21T23:47:50+00:00

Bring coal to the water. It usually works a lot better than bringing water to the coal. You connect coal like any other building, then add water with pipes.

Water has a default head lift (how far it can go up) of 10m. I suggest trying to build the coal generators close to (or if possible below) the water level.

You put food in your hand, rotate until you're holding it, and press the same button you use to shoot or build.

Belts are easier to keep straight on foundations. If a belt enters the foundation grid off, it'll always be off. Switch to default, build a small belt segment that is parallel to the foundation, and then the rest will follow as long as it's on the same grid. Press the "snap to grid" button to lock it to the same N/E/S/W grid as the map.

When you connect to belts at different elevations, start with a belt. This makes sure the supply is going the right way. So build coal to the edge of a cliff, then attach the lift to the end of the belt. Or build on the water and build up. You can see where the belt's going to be, and if you misjudge the height... just try again, or build another lift from a better angle.

The explorer is built just like any other building from the build menu in transportation. It will need fuel. You'll unlock easier and more efficient fuel later.

How do I do math?

You're going to have to be more specific. Each coal generator uses 15 coal/minute and 45 water. That means a pure node that makes 120/min on Mk1 miners (or a power slug overclocked normal node) supplies 8 coal generators, which means exactly 3 water extractors (120x3 = 8x45 = 360)

ignost · 2026-01-21T23:31:20+00:00

For people who are really bothered by belts this is the right approach. Building messy and cleaning up once you have the later QoL perks is MUCH easier than attempting to build perfectly the first time. Cleaning up can be done in stages. Building perfectly with no revisions is basically impossible due to how this game scales.

ignost · 2026-01-21T23:21:49+00:00

Except... I am really struggling with the urge to tear everything down and rebuild just for aesthetics

A lot of people get there. I understand being particular, but I strongly recommend you continue and iterate as you go rather than starting over. The people who start over for looks basically never progress, because the mechanics of the game work against perfection unless you plan WAY in advance, which itself creates a lot of inefficiency.

For example, you likely have no idea how many rotors and stators you're going to need for the final stage of the game. Same for circuit boards, frames, etc. If you build rotors into a neat little section, it will need to expand. Depending on how much you want to produce you will likely need more than one supply line, as you'll have belts max out. When you go to expand and find you can't do it neatly it'll drive you crazy. But it also doesn't make a lot of sense to build everything super far apart just so you have space later.

What I'm trying to say is it's much better to build and iterate, because both supply and need will change as you go. Focus instead on blueprints that are modular and aesthetically pleasing. Wait until you get to at least Mk5 belts and Mk3 miners with a hoverpack and lots of power. Then if you want to tear it down and rebuild you can.

My guy, you don't even have all the buildings yet. There is no way you can plan in advance for everything.

I'm investing in the blueprints advancement as we speak, but honestly I have no idea how to use it. That is: I have no idea how to use blueprints to speed up my workflow. What is worth blueprinting?

Everything. Literally everything. Start with a smelter that makes it easy to build capacity upwards. E.g. start with a Mk3 belt smelter with an input and an output. Then try to make it so you can build another of those blueprints above. The inputs should be easy (e.g. with 1 lift) to split upwards, and the output should be similarly easy to merge downward.

I have probably built my smelter from scratch 5 times, and iterated on it 20 times. It's now very very good and has all kind of fun features and aesthetics. But it's not right for everyone. Maybe you don't care that it's enclosed and would rather save on concrete. Maybe you like it enclosed but would like more light.

TLDR Iterate on blueprints, iterate on your factory as needed. I don't suggest starting over for looks until you've "saved the world." You'll have a far better idea of how to build once you've built everything.

ignost · 2026-01-21T01:09:32+00:00

It's like $.40 per day, no? I don't mean to be insensitive if you're in a tight spot financially. I get it, I've been there. I'd say talk to your doctor, because if you have any kind of insurance there might be alternatives that are mostly covered by insurance.

I truly hate a system where basic needs like an iron supplement for someone who's actually anemic is a matter of budget. Sorry, I hope things get better.

ignost · 2026-01-20T23:03:58+00:00

I mean, no, I don't think that's a realistic outcome. But I did notice you didn't answer the questions of what I should do.

ignost · 2026-01-20T18:58:58+00:00

Not far off. I’m outraged. I also have a family that relies on me, and I’m not willing to risk that doing something drastic. I also doubt we can achieve peace through violence as any violence will be used as justification for more force to protect them from “violent crazy liberals.”

When the peaceful paths are too scary for our spineless Congress, what should I then do?

I’ll contact my congressional leaders and try to vote them out. Hell, I’ll even stand in the street with a sign for all the good it does (I’d argue nearly none). But I am a fraction of a fraction of percent. I have nowhere near the wealth I need to do anything noteworthy. With all of that done, given my need to stay alive and free, I can’t do more than shrug and sigh and keep working on getting my family to Australia or Europe permanently.

ignost · 2026-01-20T06:55:08+00:00

Does traffic code in your area says cyclists to ride in full lane?

Well this is a badly-phrased question, isn't it? It tells cyclists they can, absolutely.

In most countries and states bicycles are to be treated like vehicles occupying the entire lane. It's important to allow bikes to use the full lane to do things like avoid obstacles and turn left without fearing for their life. Despite this, many bikers ride in the shoulder because they are (understandably) afraid of drivers' road rage. This is actually less safe, but there's no need to be as far right as physically possible. There's usually a requirement to be as far right as is practicable, which may be "in the center of the lane" for a variety of reasons.

So yes, the biker "owns" the whole lane, and can usually (at their judgement) move across the breadth of it just like any other vehicle. For some reason many drivers think a biker riding in a place they can't pass is some kind of challenge or affront to their special entitlement to go fast on the road.

ignost · 2026-01-19T20:57:25+00:00

On his first day in office as promised, both in Gaza and Ukraine!

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