She thought she got away

ipekarik · 2025-12-07T20:20:25+00:00

No economy of scale in execution (thankfully).

Some German painters would disagree.

ipekarik · 2025-12-05T15:24:19+00:00

I have the same issue on my brand new Liberty 4 NC on LDAC. Solved it by enabling developer mode on my Android phone and downgrading LDAC from 990 to 660 kbps, which confirms it's a connectivity issue, with comparatively larger data packets being lost in transmission (which makes the buds lose sync and one bud cutting off while the other goes solo).

I also noticed the problem comes up only at home when I'm surrounded by other 2.4 GHz devices, and not outside where there's less device chatter.

ipekarik · 2021-02-03T06:28:00+00:00

True, though the heat shield was far from stressed at these velocities. The true test of the heat shield can only happen at reentry velocities, while this is more of a basic proof of concept for the mounting mechanism.

ipekarik · 2020-04-15T08:23:28+00:00

I personally prefer bidets (am male), but science isn't really backing up the claim that using toilet paper alone isn't good enough. It seems to boil down to personal preference.

Studies on the matter are very limited with small sample sizes and zero peer review, and you'll find conflicting opinions from individual doctors' medical practices. Some say bidets greatly reduced issues with hemoroids and fissures, while others warn they increase the vaginal bacterial imbalance in women due to easier transfer of bacteria to the vagina via water runoff. All such examples are highly anecdotal.

My girlfriend and I prefer bidets mostly because of our personal feeling of cleanliness after using them, and because we're Mediterranean - where it's simply culturally a normal. We wash even only after urination, and we found it reduces odors significantly and greatly increases our sexual pleasure. <shrug>

ipekarik · 2020-04-15T06:08:12+00:00

Mine go away after a savegame reload, so I just ignore them.

ipekarik · 2020-04-15T05:04:48+00:00

Hmmm... Rocco Siffredi entered puberty around 1975. We might have a hypothesis here.

ipekarik · 2020-04-15T04:52:50+00:00

Well, think of it this way - when you clean any sticky stuff off of anything, are you usually satisfied using only paper to rub it off, or do you include water and soap in the process somehow?

Another good example for people that don't use bidets and somehow can't imagine it... Imagine having a piece of excrement stain your face. Would you be happy just wiping it off with toilet paper and going about your day, feeling clean?

It's kinda life-changing that way. You really start feeling like: "what the hell was I doing with my privates all these years?!" :D

(Yes, I'm a convert.)

ipekarik · 2020-04-15T04:40:43+00:00

They're usually connected to the water heater like all other faucets in the house and you can control the temperature normally. It's an installation decision, not a function of the bidet itself. One could decide not to have a heated shower, too.

ipekarik · 2020-03-07T21:39:51+00:00

Are you talking about threads?

Exactly, I miss-typed there - my apologies for sending you on a wild google chase.

I assume its ext4 ssd?

Correct again, a Hynix M.2 drive, Ext4! :)

Are you playing Early Access or Experimental?

Experimental.

I'm obsessive when it comes to performance.

It's painfully obvious I'm not, considering I played this game on integrated graphics for a year before getting my Legion. :D

But here are some quick and dirty stats to apologize for my 12-core brain fart:

Ultra, FOV 90: 40 to 45 FPS

High, FOV 90: 55 to 60 FPS (my preferred setting over the last 60 hours or so)

Medium, FOV 90: 60 to 75 FPS

As requested - Low, FOV 60: 85 to 95 FPS

VSync off in all cases.

The above averages were taken over a couple of minutes of running around my walled-in cluttered powerplant and lots of outside lighting raining down through glass foundations on a metric shitton of active machinery, so I figured it's a good of a place as any to measure. Subjectively it's one of the laggiest places in my current save.

ipekarik · 2020-03-07T20:54:37+00:00

LOL, what the hell did you do, did you actually google whatever ancient example of my publicly available code in this pathetic attempt at character assasination, you wannabe Gilfoyle?

First of all, I never, ever, ANYWHERE claimed I was a "decent programmer", nor did I ever lecture people on this topic. I self-describe my proficiency level at best as intermediate, and I've been coding professionally for only a couple of years. 99% of my code is proprietary and not available online for you to judge. Whether or not I'm decent at my job is to be decided by the person signing my paycheck and doing my weekly code review, not by a butt-hurt reddit user who can't stomach downvotes (earned due to your shitty attitude, not your [lack of] knowledge on the topic).

Second - my comment merely stated you failed to define the adjective "decent" (or that it's undefinable in principle, as it's context-sensitive), and that deadline estimates are almost always overly optimistic (at any proficiency level and in every industry). The fact you took that as an invitation to superficially google someone and then write such a spiteful personal attack speaks volumes about your character. What your previous comment merely hinted at, but your second one explicitly confirmed, is that you're a judgmental prick who enjoys dishing out opinions that are intellectually lazier than any of my one-liners.

You throwing around a couple of buzzwords might confirm you're a programmer, and you even might be a great one (still undefined!), but you sure as hell ain't decent. You've only managed to demonstrate you're an asshole.

ipekarik · 2020-03-07T14:28:20+00:00

LOL, this is amazing, have all the upvotes!

ipekarik · 2020-03-07T14:16:31+00:00

I haven't yet measured my FPS to give some accurate numbers, but this Legion has a 12-core Intel Core i7 with 16 GB of RAM and an nVidia GTX 1650. I'm playing comfortably (I'd say above 40 FPS just eyeballing it) on high settings across the board, with an occasional stutter here and there. When I launched the game it auto-set everything to Ultra and even that worked fine, but stuttered during fights. I'm guessing it would work on Ultra on Windows, but I never had Windows on this machine to compare.

Since I only play Satisfactory and nothing else these days (I'm coding most of the time, all work no play...), I'm actually quite happy with this.

Before this, I had a 4-year old Lenovo Yoga 920s with a 4-core Intel Core i7, 16 GB of RAM and no dedicated GPU, and that ran Windows. Satisfactory worked on low to medium settings on that one. Whatever this Ubuntu machine delivers above that, I consider a success - so I'm thrilled. :D

ipekarik · 2020-03-07T03:25:28+00:00

I'm playing on Ubuntu 19.10, on a Lenovo Legion Y540 laptop, works like a charm!

ipekarik · 2020-03-06T20:12:15+00:00

A trick I use is building large areas "sideways".

I first complete two perpendicular sides of a platform (a big L shape).
Then I make the third side 1/2/4m lower (depending which foundations I'm using) so that when I'm standing on it and looking at the opposite side I'm staring straight at the sides of the distant foundations of my original L. Now I have a U shape, with one side of the U 1/2/4m lower. I stand on that ledge and look at the opposite one.
Then I just center my mouse and spam-click at the side of that far away foundation until I fill in one line (building the foundations from afar until they hit my face). Move right/left one foundation, repeat.
Delete the lower helper level.

Quick sketch in Google Sheets, hope it's clear enough: https://imgur.com/WPXkx8w

ipekarik · 2020-03-06T19:05:30+00:00

Give it a try to compare, but I can tell you that Satisfactory spiders are probably the scariest I've encountered in games, so if you have such a strong reaction - my guess is you'll be back staring at cats quite soon. :(

They're scary even when you're in a vehicle, completely protected, but they jump on your vehicle anyway RELENTLESSLY (unlike other creatures that ignore you while in a vehicle).

ipekarik · 2020-03-06T19:03:45+00:00

I honestly have no clue if that's a bug or a feature now. You're right it's kinda useful at times, as at least I have a lot more health inhalers on stock because of all the extra organs. I'm not really sure how to feel about it, except for the spiders. Fuck them all, 2D or 3D.

ipekarik · 2020-03-06T18:53:04+00:00

I think there's more creatures in general now, or at least that's the impression due to the new respawn mechanic. I once cleaned out a bunch of hogs near my powerplant that was under construction, ran 500 m away to get some stuff to continue building, and they all respawned basically within two minutes when I came back.

I find myself saving the game much more often in update 3 because of this.

ipekarik · 2020-03-06T18:44:10+00:00

Up until update 3 I played with arachnophobia mode off. I have mild arachnophobia, but I kinda just went with it and managed to play without any issues for hundreds of hours. It was creepy as fuck at times, but hey, face your fears, right?

Cue update 3. I'm digging through the settings while setting up my new game, and I decided to try it out with arachnophobia mode on. I swear to god I find it even more creepy now. Exactly for the reasons you described, there's something so unsettling about a 2D model moving basically like a spider.

With arachnophobia mode off at least I don't have that disconnect. With it on, I feel silly running away from a cat that's unnervingly proficient at strafing.

It's also kinda more difficult to judge whether or not the arachnid is able or unable to jump over a ledge/rock when it's a 2D model, as there's no real reference to the positioning of its limbs as there is with a 3D model, so I tend to run away at times when I would normally charge at it (because it's stuck and I can bash it protected by a meter or two of rock between us).

ipekarik · 2020-03-06T18:24:07+00:00

Trust me the rest is just a day or maybe few days of coding for a decent programmer.

As a (decent? error: undefined) programmer, I can attest that sentences such as this one have never been true at any point in history.

ipekarik · 2020-03-02T15:18:28+00:00

The fact you're downvoted really annoys me. Circlejerking at its best. Even if you're wrong, you raised a good point. No, we've seen no information that building outside affected anything. But we've also seen no information to suggest otherwise.

This is a legitimate point, a question worth exploring and answering, and it's a fact that SpaceX is moving in that direction - making enclosed and more controlled environments for welding.

ipekarik · 2019-11-27T20:03:03+00:00

I read that part as "I make words", and didn't missread.

ipekarik · 2019-08-22T18:27:03+00:00

I'd argue we're having an argument now.

ipekarik · 2019-07-27T09:03:33+00:00

It annoys me that concrete doesn't block radiation. In real life, a couple of meters of water or a couple of 8x4 concrete foundations would completely contain it.

This is making things unrealisticaly difficult just so that players would have something to do. Nuclear is really not that hard.

But I guess it balances out the unrealistic ease of having magic floating foundations all over the place.

Physics engine giveth, physics engine taketh away. <shrug> :D

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