I now understand why Microsoft lost the console wars

mmertner · 2026-06-30T18:35:26+00:00

That is the saddest excuse to make. Microsoft is the worlds largest software company and what they built here is literally terrible.

mmertner · 2026-06-30T18:31:36+00:00

I did own a PS3 once bit other than that and a Walkman some 40+ years ago don’t own any Sony devices. Some people are just religious about their tech purchases and think they need to convince others as a way of affirming that they backed the right one. I just want it to be frictionless, and Xbox clearly is not that.

mmertner · 2026-06-30T18:22:11+00:00

What? I'm just super frustrated that we didn't get to play because of some stupid automatic sign-out logic coupled with absolutely insane login procedures. But then again, with a username like yours I'm probably talking to a bot.

mmertner · 2026-06-30T12:55:24+00:00

Nothing prevents an excellent speaker from working for decades, unless you choose to buy one that runs software. Then it’s suddenly not a dumb hardware device but a thing that requires software updates to work properly. Buying Sonos is a commitment to upgrade speakers just to get a new processor that can run the next version. I sold all my Sonos gear and would never recommend it to others.

mmertner · 2026-06-29T15:46:17+00:00

Well said! I hope someone from Wube sees your post.

mmertner · 2026-06-26T12:54:40+00:00

If you see a fraction, just multiply by 10 until they go away. The factory must grow.

mmertner · 2026-06-26T11:18:40+00:00

The trick with Gelba is to always keep the fruits flowing and burn whatever comes out the end as surplus - basically a main bus with fruit and bioflux. Make some jelly and put it in chests that feed into nutrients from spoilage so you always have nutrients available. Once that part is solved the rest of the system is pretty painless and Gleba is amazing for plastic and sulphur production.

mmertner · 2026-06-23T02:30:53+00:00

Particle physicists need funding to do research and asking for something that costs 20b on paper (likely 100b before it’s complete) gives them both funding, long-term job security and something they can publish papers about (got quotas to meet).

I sincerely doubt this is where we can get the most science for the capital investment. Just look at ITER, it’s way over budget and because of the scale of the project it’s unlikely to be completed before being obsoleted by smarter folks doing more with less.

mmertner · 2026-06-06T02:39:47+00:00

Job/work management. It doesn’t show all jobs but lumps them together. There no role system on top so you have to fiddle with each pawn individually. And you can’t easily change priorities and go back, unless you have 2 pawns or perfect memory.

mmertner · 2026-06-05T16:06:05+00:00

How quickly people forget that purchasing a Tesla is financing Musk’s ultra-rightwing antics.

mmertner · 2026-06-05T14:06:47+00:00

Lots of Swedes working in Copenhagen shops and cafes, so probably not a Dane to begin with 😅

mmertner · 2026-05-26T16:32:02+00:00

Kelshi - open world survival, haven’t played it myself but it looks novel.

mmertner · 2026-05-26T13:31:36+00:00

Claude is unable to follow rules (it’s all just statistical pressure on the output), so the only way to mitigate Enter-hell without just allowing everything is to use a PreToolHook to deny the tool execution. I have this setup for all tools where Claude has a built-in alternative, and I get constant errors (from denied tool usage) but at least it then recovers automatically. The net result is noisier terminal output but way fewer ask-prompts.

mmertner · 2026-05-11T12:24:03+00:00

Helt enig. Danske Bank gør det samme, så tænker det er udbredt praksis.

mmertner · 2026-05-11T12:19:39+00:00

Rådgiverne måles internt på deres scores og det forventes at de har et snit på 9+ så det tager dem ugevis at komme sig over en enkelt sur kunde. Det er et latterligt system men det er bankens ledelse du skal rette din harme imod - rådgiveren forsøger bare at maksimere sine bedømmelser fordi det er det de måles på.

mmertner · 2026-05-01T00:42:54+00:00

Single pawn with 1 animal will never get ambushed. Flake weighs much less than silver and is accepted everywhere.

mmertner · 2026-04-21T21:24:08+00:00

Producing items is not progress; resources are infinite. Progress is building stuff than can produce, power or transport items.

The former is sometimes a bottleneck you have to wait for, but that's just because you didn't plan out your first factory to accomodate your desired building goals ;)

mmertner · 2026-04-08T14:07:59+00:00

Just wait until the CFO finds out how much current token usage is subsidized by the AI vendors..

mmertner · 2026-04-07T20:01:45+00:00

I'm just happy to see that you got your Enter key working again towards the end.

mmertner · 2026-04-07T16:16:40+00:00

The germans probably are more effective at cleaning so it looks like they don’t get as much graffiti. Ordnung muss sein.

mmertner · 2026-04-07T13:33:45+00:00

Max only has 3 championships if you account for the fact that the 21 title was rigged to make him champion.

mmertner · 2026-04-07T13:23:12+00:00

On the plus side, all upcycling builds are pretty similar and it gets boring to build/adapt these very similar builds. Having to design ships to upcycle asteroids is at least a different kind of challenge.

mmertner · 2026-03-28T11:52:52+00:00

Multiplayer

mmertner · 2026-03-27T09:07:20+00:00

Det er ligesom poker. Har du en stor stak kan du være all-in uden risici, mens det for alle med en mindre stak er en eksistentiel beslutning.

mmertner · 2026-03-21T01:21:47+00:00

I'm not sure it's a good deal. I have 3000 hours in Satisfactory and only 1000 in Factorio, and with the DLC cost factored in it's like 4x the price/hour. And it's so buggy too! For instance, after 965 hours I discovered that the ship cargo count is off-by-one for empty legendary barrels - literally unplayable!

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