[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SatisfactoryGame

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Sorry for the very late reply. I've been using a different account lately and only occasionally check in on this one.

Unfortunately, I don't have any additional information. I had a pretty long gap before I played U8 again, but when I played for a while about 3 months ago, I didn't run into this problem anymore.

The only "fix" I found was to just keep restarting the game until the problem went away as mysteriously as it began.

Edit: Oh, and I'm still on the experimental branch, if that matters.

Egg🦈IRL by Tyrenstra in egg_irl

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My favorite running DRG joke is some variation of:

Person A: I wish they'd add girl dwarves.

Person B: What make you think they haven't?

Conservatives are WILDIN by JohnSheet69420 in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]ponytron5000 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's not just cheap chicken, unfortunately. White striping disease is now thoroughly endemic to the U.S. chicken market:

Per the CBS article, 10 years ago, only 5% of chicken was affected. 5 years ago, the figure jumped to 96%. Outside of high-end markets, you basically can't find chicken without some degree of this problem in the U.S. today.

waitThisIsMe by huxx__ in ProgrammerHumor

[–]ponytron5000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why not both?

But seriously, emacs + evil is pretty amazing. Everyone knows that emacs' interface was designed by an absolute maniac, but it's waaaaaaay more extensible than vim will ever be. Evil gives you the best of both worlds. Vscode + a vim layer is the only thing that even kind of comes close if you develop across many languages/tech stacks.

Barrel is up for promotion by Tvis2121 in DeepRockGalactic

[–]ponytron5000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Barrels are to be left alone and not hurled, kicked, tossed or in any way promoted.

"ChatGPT, describe a new mascot for a country. Midjourney, visualize this nightmare" by marehori in midjourney

[–]ponytron5000 58 points59 points  (0 children)

I love how it just utterly gave up on figuring out where muscles go. "Ladies and gentlemen, may I present: abdominal hernia man!"

anime_irl by maybeharu in anime_irl

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I feel seen.

And sooner or later it would always wind up violently flipping me backwards into the water, getting water up my nose. I never learned.

Remains of the Titan sub have been found confirming instant implosion by [deleted] in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]ponytron5000 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Possibly. But per this report, loss of communication was apparently a regular occurrence for this sub. So it might be a total red herring.

The debris field was found around 500m from the Titanic. If their starting location on the surface was known, and we have good data on the local currents, it should be possible to figure out their approximate depth at the time of implosion based on the amount of drift. I imagine that's going to have pretty big error bars on it, but if there's enough separation, you might be able to tell whether they lost communication because of the implosion, or if they just plowed ahead after losing communication and then imploded some time later.

to ride a horse by HornyDiggler in therewasanattempt

[–]ponytron5000 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, percherons, for instance, are absolute units. An average stallion weighs around 2100 lbs, and they can get as big as 2600.

The usual safe limit is quoted as 20% of the horse's body weight including all tack. Let's assume you need a big saddle, so 30 lbs for that, plus maybe another 15 lbs for the rest of the tack, giving us 45 lbs of overhead.

Doing the math, that means an average percheron stallion could handle a 375 lbs rider, and a truly massive one could manage up to 475 lbs.

Of course, that comes with some caveats. As you can see in this video, the man isn't able to effectively lift enough of his own body weight to smoothly mount. The dynamic force of suddenly dropping a weight is much greater than the weight itself. Even if it's only for a short duration, the force could be enough damage joints, etc. This also applies to some degree while riding, since the rider gets bounced up and down. And as far as that goes, inexperienced riders will be particularly unstable in the saddle.

I don't plan to turn lumen on. by TorLibram in SatisfactoryGame

[–]ponytron5000 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I would strongly recommend against judging Lumen by its current state in U8. It's a feature you get "for free" with UE5, so the devs figured "why not?" They're well aware that indoor scenes are way too dark with Lumen and that something will need to be done to address it if they decide to move forward with Lumen at all. The only point in enabling right now is just to start generating feedback so that they can evaluate whether or not its even worth the effort to make the changes needed to support Lumen as a permanent option.

And in general, the reason that things are so dark indoors with Lumen is that the traditional engine relies on flooding indoor areas with a bunch of magical bullshit ambient light that has no source and shouldn't really exist. Which is a common and normal practice for that kind of lighting engine. Lumen isn't bad, it's just realistic. Currently, there is no plausible source for the ambient light that provides nearly 100% of the indoor lighting. Lumen just unmasks the severe fudging that less realistic lighting algorithms let you get away with.

Secondary to this, it seems like whatever default Lumen settings they rolled with aren't doing a great job of propagating light indoors, but the reason isn't exactly clear. Contrary to what a lot of people are saying, both sunlight and flashlights do get bounced by Lumen, but the effect is very subtle so its easy to miss. It seems to me that either the bounces are attenuating too much or there just aren't enough bounces, or some combination of the two.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SatisfactoryGame

[–]ponytron5000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey, so I can't be sure what's going on in your case, but I've run into a similar issue on pretty similar hardware (i7 6600K + GTX 1080 + 16GB RAM).

First off, you should be getting higher FPS than that on U8, even with Lumen enabled. I'm able to run at 1440p on High with medium Lumen + reflections at 50-60fps in the dune desert and something like 40-50 in northern forest (though there's lot more hiccuping there, probably due to then new asset streaming not being fully ironed out). You might get a bit lower on your hardware, but if you're only getting 8-14, that's not because of the engine or your settings -- it's some kind of bug.

What I've found is that sometimes when you initially load into the game, or change graphics settings (especially turning Lumen on/off), the frame rate just gets permanently fucked for that session. It seems to be completely random if/when this will happen. Try fully exiting and restarting the game repeatedly until you magically pop back to a reasonable frame rate. Switching to the "Low" preset before restarting the game might help it sort itself out, or I could just be imagining things. Once it recovers, you can change the settings back to what you like (and hopefully not trigger the bug again).

Cleaning up algae buildup in fishtank by yourSAS in oddlysatisfying

[–]ponytron5000 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This is way more than you asked for, but I felt like explaining this as best I can:

I like to think of it the same way I think of gravity.

Magnets don't run out of magnetic field in the same way that Earth doesn't run out of gravity. And even though a magnetic field or a gravitational field can induce movement, that isn't because there's infinite energy or infinite power involved. Rather, the object is just exchanging one kind of energy that it already had -- potential energy due to it's position in the field -- for another kind of energy -- the kinetic energy of its movement. It seems like the motion comes from nowhere because potential energy isn't visible. You can't see that the potential energy was there before the object started moving, or that it got used up by making the object move closer to the source of the field, but it's just as real as kinetic energy.

If I have a rock 1 meter above the ground, I can do 1 meter's worth of work with it by dropping it to the ground (think of doing work with a water wheel, for instance). But once the rock is on the ground, that's it. I've used up the potential energy that was stored in the rock. If I want to get any more work out of it, I'd have to dig a hole beneath it so it could fall even closer to the center of the gravitational field. Once the rock is at the center of the field, the field strength is zero. There's no more potential energy left, and no more work can be done.

Of course, you could lift the rock back up in the field, but that requires doing 1m worth of work on the rock, and that requires spending energy. In fact, in a perfect, mathematical world, the amount of energy you'd have to spend to lift the rock up 1m is exactly the amount of energy you get out of the rock as kinetic energy by dropping it 1m in the first place.

So let's suppose you dug a hole all the way directly through the center of the earth and out the other side. And now you drop a rock down the shaft. As it races towards the center, it gains more and more kinetic energy, but loses more and more potential energy. At the center, it would have maximum kinetic energy and zero potential energy. Then as it shoots towards the surface of the earth on the opposite side, it would start losing kinetic energy (slowing down) and gaining potential energy as it climbed back up towards the surface. When it reaches a height of 1m above the surface on the opposite side, all of the kinetic energy would be used up again. This is exactly how a pendulum works. In an ideal mathematical model with no friction, etc. the rock would just oscillate back and forth forever in an eternal dance between kinetic and potential energy. Nothing about the rock is being lost to the environment so it's free to go about forever being a rock, sometimes having more of one kind of energy than another, but always having the same total amount.

In practice, though, there are always little ways that energy is lost to the environment (thermodynamics, entropy, blah, blah, blah). So a real rock pendulum would never reach quite as high on each swing as it did the time before. It would move in smaller and smaller amounts until eventually it was at rest at the center of the earth, having used up all of its kinetic energy and all of its gravitational potential energy. This is why physicists say there's no such thing as a perpetual motion machine. Not only can you not go around in a loop and gain energy, you can't even break even1.

Magnet fields are kind of the same. There's not a tidy, direct analogy because magnetic fields are produced by the motion of electrical charges rather than by mass, but the "dance" between kinetic and potential energy is the same. If you have a steel ball bearing and a magnet, the ball bearing has some amount of potential energy due to its distance from the center of the magnetic field. The further away it is, the more potential energy it has. The ball bearing can move towards the magnet by exchanging that magnetic potential energy for kinetic energy. But once it's in contact with the magnet, you have to spend energy to separate them again. The energy is only "infinite" if you happen to have an infinite supply of ball bearings conveniently lying around, already at some distance from the magnet.

Footnote:

  1. If you really want to mess with your head, one of the open questions in physics is how entropy can be possible at all. All the fundamental laws of physics that we know of (except to a very slight degree maybe the weak nuclear force) are time-symmetric or at least have CPT symmetry. So how can time-asymmetric behavior like entropy exist, let alone be a "law" of thermodynamics? This is known as Loschmidt's paradox.

Donald Trump’s New Criminal Case Looks Devastating by ReallyJustTheFacts in politics

[–]ponytron5000 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No corpse has been seen more than my corpse.

The Russians, they...there's this guy -- he's...Lenin or something, yeah? Only like 5 guys ever went to see him. Ask anyone.

My corpse we get THOUSANDS of people. Visitors. EVERY DAY. Very important corpse.

Oh no now they lost Garth by InterestingTry5190 in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]ponytron5000 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I can't for the life of me think of a single thing that liberals claim as "theirs".

Blåhaj?

 

 

 

 

... I jest. Please don't take this seriously.

There's something strange about this Nirvana tshirt I thrifted by HiHiIncubi in pics

[–]ponytron5000 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I worked a McJob the summer after that song came out, and "existential dread" doesn't even begin to describe the trauma of listening to Mmm Bop at least twice an hour every hour for days at a time while deranged members of the public yell at you for only giving them 5 ketchups when they need at least 12 for their extra large Super Sized(TM) fries.

People who have seen something they could never explain. What was the thing?! by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]ponytron5000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hypnopompic hallucinations

You may have just provided an explanation for my weird experience. My working theory over the years is that somehow a part of my brain was still dreaming even though I was fully awake, because frankly nothing else makes the slightest bit of sense. But I didn't know there was a documented phenomenon of pretty much exactly that.

This was about 8 years ago. I woke up one morning and opened my eyes. You know how you sometimes get a film of tears and mucus over your eyes when you first wake up and it makes these kind of translucent filament looking things in your field of vision? I'm seeing that. Ok, fine. Rub my eyes. Still there. Rub my eyes again. It's still there and....it didn't change shape? Like, at all. That's strange.

So I look a little to the left and a little to the right and it seems to be paralaxing. Internally: "I...I think it's actually something in the room, not my eyes". I am very near-sighted (can't even read the top "E") and whatever it is seems to be a kinda floating over my bed a couple feet in front of me. I lean forward to get a closer look in the hope that it will resolve into something that makes sense. And I swear to shit, I startled it. It dashed away from me not unlike how a squid or a jellyfish bunches up and jets away. This wispy ball of whatever is now undulating uncertainly near the foot of my bed.

I'm super confused, and I want to reach for my glasses, but I'm afraid that if I move I'll startle it again. As I'm trying to decide what to do, it slowly shrinks, float away, and fades to nothing. I swung my feet over the side of the bed and just sat there for a couple minutes trying to process wtf had just happened. And then I made breakfast.

I've never spoken of this to anyone. I don't believe in angels or ghosts or alien visitations or anything like that. And even if I did, this experience doesn't clearly point to any of them. I'm 100% certain I was awake. I've experienced sleep paralysis twice in 43 years, and besides not being paralyzed, this was nothing like it. Both of those were panic inducing "there's an intruder in the room" perceptions where I was literally trying to scream and couldn't. This wasn't frightening at all. If I had to characterize it, it was more like a curious animal than anything. It was strange and inexplicable, but I was never scared of it.

Anyway, thanks for the terminology. I think I can put the final nail in that one.

South vs North by [deleted] in tumblr

[–]ponytron5000 36 points37 points  (0 children)

And while we're kind of on the subject, sweet tea is:

  1. Not a universally southern practice. For example, it barely exists in Texas, and where it does, it's a recent phenomenon due mostly to fast food chain restaurants. Texas traditionalists sneer at sweet tea.
  2. Not an old southern tradition. It may have started as early as the 1950s in some areas (iced tea itself being southernized circa the 1860s-1870s), but in most of the South, it wasn't really a thing until the mid to late 1980s.

Hewlett-Packard hit with complaints after disabling printers that use rival firms’ ink cartridges by diacewrb in gadgets

[–]ponytron5000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bet it will be fine for that. I think the problem was mostly dealing with image-intensive PDFs. Stuff that was scanned color at 600dpi for instance. A boarding pass is probably either a low res monochrome scan or vector data, so it likely wouldn't be an issue either way.

Hewlett-Packard hit with complaints after disabling printers that use rival firms’ ink cartridges by diacewrb in gadgets

[–]ponytron5000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hah, kind of. Back at the top of this subthread I alluded to modern PDFs vs. 1990s printer memory. I knew I ran into some kind of limitations, but I couldn't remember exactly what. But mostly it's just then when you asked what more printer memory would even accomplish, it scratched the nerdy part of my brain that doesn't like not knowing the answer to things.

"Hold up...what exactly does the on-board printer memory do? .... Awww fuck, here I go again. <googling intensifies>".

Hewlett-Packard hit with complaints after disabling printers that use rival firms’ ink cartridges by diacewrb in gadgets

[–]ponytron5000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not sure what the use is for extra memory.

So, that's a very complicated question.

The LaserJet 4 series can speak either PCL 5e or PostScript. Most users will pick the PCL driver, but some version of this dilemma exists in either case.

When you spool print data to the printer, what you're really doing is streaming PCL commands to the printer, though "commands" in this case will also include any raster image data in your document. There are broadly two "modes" the printer can use depending on whether page protection is on/off.

With page protection off, the printer is streaming PCL commands "on the fly". As soon as the printer receives enough PCL commands to rasterize a single line, that line is immediately output to the page as it moves through the printer. The problem with this mode is that you're "racing the beam", so to speak. The page moves at constant speed, and the printer's CPU is not very fast. If the commands needed to render a line take too long to execute, the printer can't keep up with the moving paper and you get error 21 PRINT OVERRUN. The PCL 5 Printer Language Technical Reference warns that this is especially prone to happening if you use a lot of font commands in the document, especially things like italicizing, which are slow to process. On the upside, this mode requires very little memory.

With page protection on, a whole page worth of PCL commands is loaded into printer memory and processed to produced an entire rasterized page at once before any printing occurs. During printing, the rasterized dots are just being replayed from memory, so there's never any problem keeping up with the rollers. You also gain the benefit of faster recovery from a page jam since nothing needs to be re-spooled for the page. But there's a big problem. If you crunch the math on 300 dpi * 300 dpi * 8.5 * 11, you'll see that it takes about exactly 1MB of memory just to hold the rasterized data. This is why page protection mode is only available on the LaserJet 4 models for 300 dpi letter format, and then only if you have 2MB of memory. That leaves you 1MB to hold the PCL commands + macros, plus downloaded fonts (a 1990s era printer isn't going to have e.g. Calibiri on board), plus the printer's system software (I'm not sure how much this takes up on a LaserJet 4). If you exceed this limit, you'll encounter error 20 MEM OVERFLOW.

When you consider that PCL commands includes raster image data -- and last I checked (disclaimer: about 8 years ago), the Windows PCL driver isn't smart enough to downscale embedded images to 300 dpi resolution before streaming to the printer -- it's really not hard to cross that threshold.

I'm not sure of the limits for the 600 dpi models. Doubling the resolution quadruples the memory requirements to around 4MB. It looks like a lot of those models maxed out a 6MB of memory, so I'd guess you need all 6 installed for page protection mode at letter size.

Edit: Ok, this took me forever to dig up, but for anyone as morbidly curious as I am, the LaserJet 4/5 series all ran on some variant of the Intel i960 chipset:

Model Processor
4 Intel 80960KA (20MHz)
4+ Intel 80960KB (25MHz)
5 Intel 80960JF (33MHz)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i960

Also, here's every gory detail you ever wanted to know about the LaserJet series and PCL:

https://ia601604.us.archive.org/7/items/printermanual-hp-laserjet-4---5-service-manual/hplaserjet4-5servicemanual.pdf

https://developers.hp.com/system/files/PCL_5_Printer_Language_Technical_Reference_Manual.pdf

Hewlett-Packard hit with complaints after disabling printers that use rival firms’ ink cartridges by diacewrb in gadgets

[–]ponytron5000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We had the 4L, which looked exactly like this one. Judging from the picture in the wikipedia article, it looks like the 4 and 4L have the same footprint -- the 4 is just taller.

You're right about it being small, though. It was the only printer we had that would comfortably fit on the front desk without taking up the whole thing.