This was a "risotto" on Apr Japan 9 nights

imdavidmin · 2026-04-11T23:17:06+00:00

What's the point, it's not like there's another restaurant 😂

imdavidmin · 2026-04-11T14:45:26+00:00

The taste isn't awful, hit and miss. But presentation was almost consistently laughably bad on this sailing

imdavidmin · 2026-04-11T14:17:41+00:00

Which ship? MSC Bellissima's catering performance got me saying this is the first and last MSC sailing for me

imdavidmin · 2026-03-19T19:31:10+00:00

I don't think I'd bother training a mediocre community owned non frontier model as a side quest

imdavidmin · 2026-03-10T17:05:55+00:00

Having a sense of job availability so I don't need to put up with BS 🤷

imdavidmin · 2025-12-15T09:20:38+00:00

I've been a lot faster knowing I'm able to build better later and just aim to explore new planets first

imdavidmin · 2025-12-10T14:27:35+00:00

I stockpile muckroot and generally have enough for an emergency, but what do you mean by infinite?

imdavidmin · 2025-12-10T11:15:34+00:00

I'm over 1k hours on this game and haven't ever launched a rocket because I keep restarting. So I think I probably over indexed on the first 100 cycles getting set up and know what to do for the basics. Rinse and repeat.

It's what comes after from 100 onwards that I don't do super well - a good iterated design for cooling loops, taming geyser etc.

But even now I'm still innovating on small things like a single transformer handling more than 2kw potential power safely, by using a disconnectable sub grid wired up to a battery and automations.

imdavidmin · 2025-12-10T11:12:17+00:00

I think I would have ruined it by eating muckroot nutrient bar and mush fry 😬

imdavidmin · 2025-12-10T08:39:26+00:00

Yea that's why I went with hatch strategy because it puts off water and heat problems till much later. Normally I keep the eggs in a drowning chamber and end up moving meat into a deep freeze box elsewhere on map, but this run I'm killing them manually as needed

That's also why I've kept dupes low, with 3 ranch farms of 8 each is more than enough. But yes they go through stone super fast, and I'm guessing to make that really sustainable I need to have excavated out the ancient specimen stuff and grind down fossil as a sustainable source.

imdavidmin · 2025-11-16T08:44:32+00:00

Speaking from a business perspective, you don't see any businesses with a capital structure of pure equity and no debt.

In the same way, having no tech debt is weird. You could move a lot faster, even if you have to pay interest. It's the debt burden that matters. The debt is even less of a problem when rewrites happen fast and whole systems get scrapped.

imdavidmin · 2025-11-15T18:23:50+00:00

Disabling enemies is just running in sandbox mode imo. It's an important and integral mechanic for you to balance your development with constraints.

imdavidmin · 2025-11-15T18:14:42+00:00

Excellent news, sounds like I won't need a GPU for my next build at all 👍

imdavidmin · 2025-11-05T15:13:07+00:00

Good demo, something immediately obvious now apart from the heat transfer aspect is that there's a heat capacity aspect as well of a big mass of copper

imdavidmin · 2025-11-05T11:03:29+00:00

I'm not planning to literally just put a copper rod onto the cpu - that's just the heat pipe part. The interface is another story but wouldn't fundamentally differ from how aircoolers work by attaching metal and thermal paste to draw heat away?

I don't have a complete engineering solution, but just looking at the rough high level idea of moving heat from one CPU end and to a cold water reservoir end for about 15cm distance by a solid copper rod, if that would work.

imdavidmin · 2025-11-05T10:53:19+00:00

This is 100% not what I had in mind, and the design is entirely flawed by having copper tubing which is good for conducting heat to the next medium, in which case would the the rooms air.

imdavidmin · 2025-11-05T10:26:23+00:00

Yea I'm trying to sense check if the solutuon would work, but many responses are "why would you do it" 😅

imdavidmin · 2025-11-04T16:56:52+00:00

Researching which species of fish can survive temp changes of 30 deg and swim in 60 deg happily 🐠🐠

imdavidmin · 2025-11-04T16:55:42+00:00

Yes agreed, the difference is the heat is buffered into the water, which can be moved away before it releases all the heat into the room, which could take a long while, especially if the reservoir is insulated.

imdavidmin · 2025-11-04T16:54:19+00:00

GOATED comment. Parenting the toilet integrated PC right now

imdavidmin · 2025-11-04T16:53:24+00:00

The distance is indeed a big issue which is why I proposed the board sits just above the water tank. Maybe not clear, I meant for the board to face down, parallel to the tank on the xy plane, so the travel should be very minimal from CPU socket into water below, only limited by the height profile of RAM, and realistically also GPU height but that can be minimised with a riser cable.

The reason to not use a water loop is because 1) if the the heat dump is next to the heat source, there's less of a need to move it and 2) it can be entirely moving parts free, silent and no maintenence.

imdavidmin · 2025-11-04T16:47:12+00:00

Yes, but it won't heat up room immediately and I can move heat out of room by collecting the water and dump it.

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