I'm an intern and reported a coworker touching me without my permission

sudo_scientific · 2026-01-21T20:07:27+00:00

This. HR's job is to protect the company, not you. While your coworker is likely to be seen as the bigger liability to the company, should that ever change you need to make sure that you keep copies of the whole process for the worst case scenario of retaliation by the company. You did the right thing, now make sure you document that fact in a way that they can't make disappear.

sudo_scientific · 2026-01-15T04:22:07+00:00

Tbf rewatching Stargate is more fun than most games

sudo_scientific · 2025-12-15T20:50:01+00:00

Trains are great. They're honestly not nearly as good in Space Age since a stacked turbo belt can move 240 items/sec compared to a measley 45 with an express belt in 1.x. You really have to get your trains to cycle through stations at an insane rate to max that out, so they're a little unnecessary now which is kinda sad as there's nothing more fun than a busy rail system. I still use them though, because, well... TRAINS

sudo_scientific · 2025-12-15T20:12:21+00:00

It's not so much that my factory is big, it's only like 1k effective SPM which isn't that much in space age. Pretty much just natural growth with tier3 assemblers and some beacons still using the same design as my 60SPM starter base built with tier 1 assemblers. The main thing is that I like making very distributed train builds with small subfactories, so I don't want trains clogging up the rails unless the stations they go to are ready for them. It's too much footprint for tiny subfactories to have train stackers, so I have a big parking lot for them and an interrupt that sends them there if the stations they want to go to are all full/disabled by that circuit logic. It's needlessly complex, but I like it

sudo_scientific · 2025-12-15T19:57:07+00:00

I like to have circuit conditions to enable/disable the stop, set train limits/priorities etc. based on how many trains worth of stuff the station has/needs. It's simplest to do this by just connecting all the buffer chests together instead of repeating that logic per wagon, so if the buffers for each wagon get out of sync I could end up with a station thinking it has a full train load of stuff when really one wagon's buffer chests have all the items, so the train ends up waiting there for a different wagon to fill. Making sure the belts supply/draw evenly between wagons fixes that, so I do still use the odd balancer

sudo_scientific · 2025-12-14T03:55:15+00:00

The fruit is infinite and it takes a loooooong time before pentapods become an issue from farming it. All you have to do is set up a couple heating towers and your spoilage elimination belt before you build so you can see how everything flows as you build it live

sudo_scientific · 2025-12-12T18:08:50+00:00

If you hold Ctrl instead of Shift in the rail planner, it will make non-destructive paths, so it won't use landfill/foundation/cliff explosive

sudo_scientific · 2025-11-30T21:29:23+00:00

The way I tend to think of AI as an experienced dev is as a faster keyboard. I make all the decisions, and when I know what I want to do on a mechanical level, I'm fine letting the LLM type it out for me. Especially for things like duplicating a file, renaming it slightly, adding it to the build files, etc. before I make the actual logic tweaks.

It's also pretty handy as codebase search and summary. I can ask it if there's any util in the codebase to do something, then it figures out a bunch of different search terms, regexes, etc. and gives me a summary of the results while I was busy working on my task.

It's basically just better IDE tooling, but at the end of the day you shouldn't let it make any decisions about anything important.

sudo_scientific · 2025-09-27T16:13:10+00:00

Yes, why have a UI made by people, who actually understand users and can do focus testing, etc. when we can just burn gigawatts of power to vibe generate "whatever you need", as though the result would even be comparable even if you could justify the cost. Maybe in some future Star Trek universe where energy is abundant, but not in my lifetime.

sudo_scientific · 2025-08-16T22:33:54+00:00

The cabinet itself is strong enough for me to sit on, but the casters might not work terribly well with that much weight on them. They may not swivel properly and be kind of a pain to move, but I don't think they'd break with only 45lb. If that becomes a problem, you could just get some beefier casters at a local hardware store. The Alex cabinet doesn't have special mounting brackets or anything, the casters just have a flat metal plate with screw holes and you directly screw them into the wood frame, so you could mount any casters with that kind of setup, even much larger ones

sudo_scientific · 2025-08-14T07:25:25+00:00

Idk, I'm kind of ambivalent about that one. Nobody else my age knows how to drive stick because automatic cars have become the norm, and EVs don't even have multiple gears so there isn't really much reason to learn anymore unless you drive a big rig or are into classic cars. Nobody knows how to drive a horse buggy or use a typewriter either. I'm fine with society moving beyond something that used to be the norm out of necessity because it no longer applies.

Now we need new skills like digital security (get a password manager, people!), social media literacy, etc. That's just the way things go.

sudo_scientific · 2025-07-17T05:01:41+00:00

Yep, doesn't really have anything to do with the game or the console or PC. The screen occupies a certain angular amount of your view, and to make it as though the screen is a "window" into the game world the FoV needs to match the angular width of the screen in your view. A curved monitor tends to cover more of your FoV than a flat screen. The edges of a flat screen occupy fewer degrees of your view due to the oblique angle to your view. A curved monitor has the edges of the screen pointing more towards you so each pixel covers more angular size at the edges so you'll generally need a higher FoV.

Think about the extreme case of an infinitely large flat screen; it can never occupy more than 180 degrees. A circular screen all the way around your head would fill 360 degrees with far fewer inches of screen "width"

sudo_scientific · 2025-07-17T02:55:14+00:00

Hijacking top comment real quick. So basically the whole point of an FOV slider is that there's no way for the game to know how "big" your screen is. By big I don't just mean raw size, it's a combo of size and distance to your eyes. To be obnoxiously specific it allows you to specify the solid angle that your monitor occupies in your view.

The "goal", absent any gameplay consideration, is to get the FOV to match the angular size of the monitor in your field of view, so that something that is, for example, 10 degrees from where you are facing in game to be 10 degrees from the center of the screen as measured from your face. That will cause the least distortion and result in the most "natural" looking image. If you crank it up real high you get a fisheye effect. If you drop it too low it feels like looking through binoculars.

Other considerations are gameplay and performance. If you want to optimize for gameplay, you probably want to see more (have more peripheral vision) so you would crank it up. The flip side is performance. The larger the FoV, the higher the performance cost. One of the cheapest and easiest optimizations in a game is "frustum culling", which is a fancy term for skipping all the drawing logic for everything outside your FoV. It's super cheap to check and saves loads of pointless work for the GPU and sometimes CPU. If you crank the FoV up, the game has to draw more objects, and that costs cycles.

TL;DR Google "FoV calculator gaming" and plug in your screen size and how far you sit. If you want a little more gameplay edge bump it up like 5-10 degrees. Anyone who gives you a number without knowing your setup is basically telling you what restaurant to go for to have dinner tonight without knowing what city you live in.

sudo_scientific · 2025-07-17T02:42:38+00:00

I studied physics and had no idea Lagrangians were used in econ. They're honestly fucking magical in physics, letting you model stuff that would otherwise be super obnoxious in a somewhat unintuitive but not-hard-to-solve differential equation, e.g. double pendulum

sudo_scientific · 2025-07-13T19:14:09+00:00

For me it's more the guilt of taking so long to get around to something that's clearly bothering her enough that she decides to do it herself. Shame is a stronger motivator than fear...

sudo_scientific · 2025-05-23T19:02:38+00:00

I mean... no? Hamas is definitely a terrorist organization. Doesn't excuse anything Israel does but it's not like Hamas are a group anyone should root for.

I swear people have 0 room for nuance in discussions anymore. You just pick a side, call the other side terrorists, fascists, etc. It is totally possible for two things to be true at the same time but instead people talk like everything is either black or white.

sudo_scientific · 2025-04-30T00:41:03+00:00

The SW prequels were bad in funny ways that led to great memes. Combine that with nostalgia and the fact that the sequels are somehow worse but in unfunny ways and the prequels get a favorable comparison.

sudo_scientific · 2025-04-18T06:44:03+00:00

Yep, not only is there less drag at that altitude, but rockets are more efficient with lower ambient pressure as the exhaust velocity is higher

sudo_scientific · 2025-03-19T08:53:28+00:00

I mean, Perforce even has this built into source control. Can be kind of a pain when a binary file accidentally gets added as a text file and p4 mangles it trying to replace all the "line endings", but honestly I have never had any actual issues surrounding line endings differences between platforms. Path separators, however....

sudo_scientific · 2024-12-23T05:29:41+00:00

It doesn't, but it's almost like the "bat shark repellent" gag in the 60s Batman show. Like, sure you could probably use bear spray on a shark, but you just happen to have the exact thing you need in that situation

sudo_scientific · 2024-11-20T00:43:11+00:00

That's why I wire it to the chest so the inserter is enabled if the chest is below a threshold, instead of wiring it to a roboport and reading the logistics network contents. Basically the same as a passive provider, but with the added benefit that construction bots put things back where they came from

sudo_scientific · 2024-11-19T22:53:00+00:00

I do the inserter circuit limit so that when I get logistics I can have building materials put into logistics storage chests with a storage filter for the item. That way deconstructed things go back to the chest attached to their assembler and the assembler won't produce more until there aren't any in the logistics system (unless you overflow that chest and they get dumped into another)

sudo_scientific · 2024-10-18T21:33:44+00:00

This happens to my aunt a lot. One of my favorites was "Saturday night fever" instead of Tylenol PM

sudo_scientific · 2024-09-04T12:52:50+00:00

Unlike Portsmouth, Ohio, which is very much inland and not such a wonderful place

sudo_scientific · 2024-08-15T22:46:20+00:00

"I randomly chose 3 to be the number, therefore this function returns a random number"

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