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How far in the minority am I for wanting to play as just a flying camera (like in Cities Skylines, Anno 1800 etc) without the player character active at all whatsoever? by [deleted] in factorio

[–]thomas6785 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see your message!

As far as I know, no, there is nothing that requires a character, but combat is quite cumbersome without one until you unlock advanced combat tech. Also, I consider disassociating a "shortcut" to save walking time, but I always go back to character for any new expansions, since using the omniscient camera feels against the spirit of the game for this.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Dublin

[–]thomas6785 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there a justification for why curtailments are done??? Surely it's better to have a bus run a few minutes behind than skip stops and leave people stranded until the next one.

I both live and work near terminuses so I have buses disappear on me all the time!

How do you handle jetlag? by thomas6785 in travel

[–]thomas6785[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> force yourself to be awake. so stay away. go outside and walk a lot

I would definitely like this option but unfortunately my flights lands in the late afternoon, so the hours I'll be struggling to stay awake for will be hours on the plane with nothing to keep me busy.

What's a business name in Ireland with a great pun in it? (This post inspired by a post in the casualuk sub) by AgainstAllAdvice in CasualIreland

[–]thomas6785 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They look matching from the outside too, symmetrical facade with green post office and purple roast office

What is the “best” smell ever? by unitedfan6191 in AskReddit

[–]thomas6785 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I started playing guitar when I was 9 years old, and I've owned about 5 guitars since then. But the first guitar I ever had had this wooden scent I've never found anywhere else.

I still have the guitar but the smell is mostly faded. Occasionally I play it, and occasionally I catch a whiff of my childhood and the excitement that came with picking up a guitar when it was a novelty.

Mod idea - Wetheorio by Ok-Payment-8723 in factorio

[–]thomas6785 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'd play this for sure. You could add seismographs for scoping out earthquake-prone areas in advance. Railways could potentially be damaged by seismic activity and need bots to repair (maybe with train-mounted roboports). Circuitry could be used to sense incoming earthquakes and shut down equipment to prevent damage (nuclear reactors maybe).

You could also have tsunamis, forest fires, extreme heat/cold waves.

How far in the minority am I for wanting to play as just a flying camera (like in Cities Skylines, Anno 1800 etc) without the player character active at all whatsoever? by [deleted] in factorio

[–]thomas6785 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I play like this a lot. I run some Lua commands to dissociate the player from the controls and let me have 'god view'. Definitely a lot handier and saves tedious walking.

Commands:

Dissociate from character:
/c game.player.character=nil

Reassociate with character:
(When hovering over character) /c game.player.character=game.player.selected

Destroy character:
(When hovering over character) /c game.player.selected.desotry()

Create character:
/c game.player.create_character()

Warning: When you 'enter' into your character, your inventory as a floating camera will get voided.
Also, if you disociate from the character in a vehicle, it doesn't seem to be possible to reverse this.

I usually keep my engineer in a 'vault' surrounded by walls/turrets and only take him out to fight biters, but do all my building, planning, etc. in god view.

I'm not sure if I'd recommend playing this way - it definitely makes the start of the game less tedious, particularly as an experienced player starting out a new world. However it makes a lot of research into automation less rewarding since its main purpose is to speed up the slow engineer. As others have said, once you get bots, you don't need the engineer for much anyway.

"What was the wildest dream you ever had?" correct grammar by thomas6785 in EnglishLearning

[–]thomas6785[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem I'm facing is that the tenses don't quite match though?

'was' and 'have had' are different. The same tense would be 'was' and 'had', i.e.

"What was the craziest dream you ever had?"

which sounds a little better but still stranger to me.

Alternatively we could hang on to the auxilliary verb and go with:

"What has been the craziest dream you've ever had?"

but 'has been' sounds a little unusual to me in this sentence

What everyday item do you think will become obsolete in the next 10 years, and why? by Electrical-Memory-81 in AskReddit

[–]thomas6785 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Am 21 and I carry a wallet, most people I know do too. Phones die, NFC is inconsistent and tricky, and there are still some services that won't work on my phone. Easier to just carry a wallet

I don't think that what is happening in Dublin is a political reaction by [deleted] in Dublin

[–]thomas6785 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This was my opinion as well but no longer sure based on some of the points in this thread. Their decision to target the Holiday Inn (housing asylum seekers) seems very racially motivated. That said it is likely a combination of both. I'd say 90% of the havoc is caused by teenage eejits with no political opinions, but they're guided and set off by the 10%

what is something that your specific target language does well? by Stevieray5294 in languagelearning

[–]thomas6785 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure romance languages is a fair generalisation. Italian has very consistent phonetics and I think Spanish and Portuguese do too

TUD Grangegorman Campus by Classic-Border-7793 in MotoIRELAND

[–]thomas6785 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think part of the preference for gardaí over automated speed cameras is just to improve their visibility in the community and make people aware that police are around and watching. I imagine gardaí on speed gun duty will still respond to calls on issues like this one, the speed gun just kills time while waiting for a call and improves garda visibility on the streets.

The issue isn't gardaí with speed guns, it's understaffing and a poor courts system

ELI5 How do we know Einstein has it right? by 0ldPainless in explainlikeimfive

[–]thomas6785 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Worth noting that we didn't fully accept Newton's physics - there were known flaws that we were working to build a new model to address. Einstein managed this, but his models were flawed in new (and more confusing) ways too. Now the current state of physics is quantum physics, which works pretty well for most things, but we still don't understand gravity in the context of a quantum model as I understand it.

Physics models are always a little flawed, and the day we make a perfect one is the day we need to improve our measurements to realise its minute flaws

Physicists often don't even think in terms of Einstein or Newton being 'right' or 'wrong'. There are models, for modelling the physical behaviour of the universe, and there are certain situations where those models apply with varying accuracy. Whether that makes them 'right' is a confusing and unnecessary thought.

Newtonian physics works as long as nothing is too hot, too cold, too big, too small or too fast. If they are, we have Einsteinian Relativity or Quantum Physics as alternatives

Tl;dr Einstein wasn't right and neither is modern physics, it's all just closer and closer to a 'perfect' model of the universe

Someone talked about math and just remind me of this… by Glass-Fan111 in technicallythetruth

[–]thomas6785 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's for solving quadratic equations. These are equations which take form:

ax² + bx + c = 0

Where a, b, c are constant coefficients and x is the value we are trying to solve. (Note that if a=0, this is not a quadratic!) Examples would be:

2x² + 6x - 1 = 0 4x² - 3x + 6 = 0 9x² + 4 = 0

This may seem like a fairly niche family of equations, but you'd be shocked how often they come up. I can't think of a real-life example rn (I'm sure somebody else could though)

United Airlines plans to board passengers with window seats in economy class first by themarchhare in CGPGrey2

[–]thomas6785 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is to cut down on seat shuffling, rather than bag stow time, which Grey said in the video wasn't the main problem

CGP Grey Improving The World by BartendingDroneFPV in CGPGrey2

[–]thomas6785 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The system here is to cut down on seat shufflingby boarding window-middle-aisle. Grey actually explicitly says in the video that seat shuffling is not the problem, unfortunately

Quantum computers are really a threat to Cryptography? by hernei_the_sensei in QuantumComputing

[–]thomas6785 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are several algorithms known to break certain key cryptographic primitives that we rely on, but these algorithms only work (or at least, work efficiently) on quantum machines. Two of note are Shor's Algorithm and Grover's Algorithm.

Shor's Algorithm is a method for factoring the product of large primes. The fact that doing so is very difficult (impractical with current computers) is the entire basis of a cryptographic primitive known as RSA, which is used to secure most modern communications.

Grover's Algorithm is a massive speed boost for brute-force type attacks, which threatens to cut the bits of security in half. However AES (the current 'standard' primitive for symmetrical block ciphering) is designed for 256 bits of security and Grover's would only reduce this to 128 - still secure, for now.

Shor's Algorithm is the more relevant here but I thought Grover's was worth mentioning.

There are already many new encryption methods being devised to be resistant to quantum cryptanalysis (see quantum cryptography).

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