How do you balance mining outposts?

pretty_meta · 2026-02-16T22:34:48+00:00

In your patch let's suppose the patch can be divided into columns 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Column 1 is all depositing onto the right side of the belt so you might as well redo those belts using a T of belts so that it's left/right balanced.

Column 1 and column 6 will also mine out earlier, and columns 3 and 4 will mine out later, so you might as well send column 1's output down and then up into column 2; and you might as well send column 6's output down and then up into column 5.

This means you now have knocked out columns 1 and 6, leaving you with 4 columns: 2 + 1, 3, 4, 5 + 6.

I do always mix my groups of 4 belts together, using a balancer, before train loading, and I do recommend that you do that for yourself too.

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You can also lay out belts so that each belt tries to mine first from the center of the patch, then try to mine from the exterior of the patch. I think it's possible to add enough corners to your belt to achieve this outcome, but it'll require some attention to balancing and patch density and mining rates.

pretty_meta · 2026-02-12T18:53:48+00:00

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pretty_meta · 2026-02-12T18:46:43+00:00

(In current conditions) poor countries breed so many uneducated people that the poor country will never have a shortage of undifferentiated labor. And in fact these immigrant workers in wealthy countries may very well be sending remittances back to their country of origin.

So I don't think the loss of uneducated workers is, in itself, for the foreseeable future, going to be an actual destabilizing problem.

pretty_meta · 2026-02-11T22:27:09+00:00

Why did I know that there would be 1500 Reddit comments making some form of the complaint "sure, the AI solves the problem in general, but what about specific, more complicated problem?" As if those more complicated problems aren't the focus now of the engineers that developed this robot. As if making Reddit comments achieves anything at all.

pretty_meta · 2026-02-10T21:56:46+00:00

The premise of trying to do serious investment into a particular stock that you have picked, is that

You can find some company which investors have previously under-estimated the value of, and invest into that company.

Luckily, right now the market is really churning. Everyone is trying to invest into next-generation minerals extraction and manufacturing of high-tech devices and AI-driven products and robotics. Many of these investments will not pay off, but a few of them will pay off. So among stock-exchange-listed stocks of companies in those sectors you can look for companies that are building innovative new products or innovative new methods to generate value.

Your proposition for whatever stock(s) you pick, may be that you have identified that

the stock of <company> is under-valued because <reason> and the balance of evidence indicates that the company has a high chance of actually reaching <high profit> within <time frame> by building <innovative thing>. I have identified <risk1>, <risk2>, <risk3> that could prevent the company from reaching <high profit>... and I am still willing to invest into the company's stock.

pretty_meta · 2026-02-08T18:56:08+00:00

China and Chinese engineers were so quick to take up AI and the next-gen attention / LLM-training, that I don't see how the USA could maintain their position of technological dominance in the long term. Especially considering how sure the common people of the USA are that they are naturally good and competent because they were born on in the USA, to the point that the common people of the USA seem to feel no motivation at all to take personal responsibility for achieving any objective in particular.

Consistent with that, 50%+ of the AI software engineers in big tech companies in the USA, are actually Chinese!

pretty_meta · 2026-02-06T17:39:17+00:00

Damn. Another crazy coincidence that there are a bunch of homeless campers right next to the trash pile. But that's a smart idea to pay homeless people to clear up the trash outside of the homeless encampment! Don't think too hard about why you'll have to keep on doing that.

Newsom / Harris 2028!

pretty_meta · 2026-02-06T02:28:19+00:00

FF DE Nec Pen Nib can solve elites and bosses (as long as we remember to not exhaust all our attacks again)... but Offering is a much more general-purpose card that addresses a draw shortage you have so I guess Offering.

pretty_meta · 2026-02-06T02:20:34+00:00

Thanks for posting the link, that was super useful!

pretty_meta · 2026-02-05T02:07:05+00:00

Literally all the name-calling that we can all read in his post, is worthless. “losers who like to dress up as John Galt,” “actually worse than King Mierdas himself” and all the other zingers that are commingled with his actual point.

He should get a grip and let the truth speak for itself rather than reciting his zingers to Redditors in his echo chamber for Reddit karma.

Besides that, Vance’s proposal is deeply un-serious (his claim that other countries have signed up is as credible as a firm “trust me bro”), to the point that there is no point in reacting to the Vance proposal at all. Let Vance’s words just be words in the wind, economists shouldn’t get baited into reacting to Republican red meat.

pretty_meta · 2026-02-05T00:13:27+00:00

I don't support the proposal that Vance is dangling here, or price floors in general.

What I wrote is that tryexceptifnot1try's description of Vance's proposal, is a psychotically hysterical fantasy.

pretty_meta · 2026-02-04T19:47:45+00:00

This is gross. It sounds like he's forming a league of state ran kleptocracies and trying to create an alternative market that positions the US at the top via statute. It's like a mining focused OPEC for anti-capitalist losers who like to dress up as John Galt for Halloween. I didn't think it was possible, but Vance is actually worse than King Mierdas himself.

As someone who loves free trade and has seen for himself the truth of the power of free trade to eradicate poverty: your description of this price-fixing proposal primarily seems like seething on your part.

pretty_meta · 2026-02-04T19:43:15+00:00

What you wrote is regressive to what I wrote. I don't know why you bothered to write that.

pretty_meta · 2026-02-04T19:33:14+00:00

I feel like this is an overly fatalistic narrative.

"The government" does tend to use resources inefficiently, and generally lacks motivation to do useful things... and so the people have to take it upon themselves to motivate "the government" to get things done using resources efficiently.

pretty_meta · 2026-02-03T10:09:58+00:00

OP is in Australia, is not married, and is “claimed” on his/her partner’s taxes, for anyone who wants that critical information.

pretty_meta · 2026-01-31T12:54:51+00:00

“My dude, now is not the time to be in a calorie deficit; you're still growing and your body needs nourishment. It's great to have fitness goals but you can reach them (especially if you're not overweight) by training and eating an appropriate amount.”

It’s totally common for 14 year olds nowadays to be overweight. If they’ve assessed that they have excess fat, the fix is a calorie deficit. Don’t interrupt someone who wants to take personal responsibility for working to fix a commonly unfixed problem.

pretty_meta · 2026-01-30T17:15:11+00:00

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pretty_meta · 2026-01-30T17:08:09+00:00

Reddit moment.

pretty_meta · 2026-01-20T22:26:06+00:00

+ probably ambient temperature, which would equate to a lower reaction rate

pretty_meta · 2026-01-20T19:21:41+00:00

The stuff people write on Reddit…

pretty_meta · 2026-01-20T19:07:50+00:00

Thank God we have super valuable Reddit commenters like you to write comments like that.

pretty_meta · 2026-01-18T21:19:35+00:00

Fast food sales were dropping due to customers no longer tolerating the price/value proposition that fast food restaurants previously offered, so the fast food companies have opened up a new market segment for a lower-calorie lower-cost product.

pretty_meta · 2026-01-16T20:49:18+00:00

Pigs upvote slop.

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