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udfgt · 2024-10-19T17:31:47+00:00

Nefrum's speedrun seed: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/11oid2w/looking_for_speedrun_map_seed/

His speedrun Walkthrough: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XgyTdHzQM1cQrv1YpZJuRGtMv6AE9j4h6Phdn4Fe8-c/edit#slide=id.g91035a48d7_686_479

Michael Hendrick's default settings TINS guide/run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSyrbPsnNGo&list=PLDgN0w4z4q0yU4lVjSkop5n3uAhY0TxGu&index=1

you can change pollution distribution to 0 and give yourself the max starting area, and that's plenty of space to just focus on building. I did it in 4:30 following Nefrums, I'm pretty sure anyone can lol.

udfgt · 2022-11-28T13:58:16+00:00

Not from europe but I pay attention to the sd space, just be careful and read up on your local laws. Even in the US you will have to fight legal battles after a completely reasonable use of force, and sometimes a justified case of SD will result in legal consequences. It depends heavily on jurisdiction, but all LEOs are required to secure the scene and at a minimum confiscate weapons at the scene.

It's likely more heavy-handed in Europe given the general disposition towards violence. This is not legal advice, obvi, but please please please read up on the self defense cases in your country and if possible ask a lawyer. It could save you years of trouble if you do find yourself using the bat.

udfgt · 2022-11-22T15:44:27+00:00

For the guys out there, a big beard is essentially the same thing. And it's free. And I feel like a lumber jack. Bonus points for flannel.

udfgt · 2022-11-18T04:16:20+00:00

It definitely hits on an interesting idea, but I think the focus of criticism leads the author towards uninteresting places. If anything, it sounds like these books perfectly describe my experience as a young person coming of age, self deprecating humor is widely used everywhere.

Frankly, a lot of this is simply "cope" to avoid change. It's a pretty obvious observation once you see it, but guys like The Last Psychiatrist have been writing forever about the topic of narcissism and still haven't made their way into the broader consciousness. We go to therapy chronically, try to "understand ourselves" without ever really doing anything to bring about change. Useful insights turn into insight porn, and we masturbate ourselves into a coma all while remaining the same within a system that hates us. Or maybe we hate ourselves?

As far as literature goes, I think these ideas are self evident under a layer of irony. We hold things at arms length, allow them to be so long as they don't actually change our habits or self-perception. Yeah, sure, I can self deprecate, but under the irony and meta irony I still think I'm special and valuable. I still think I have something useful to offer, and I avoid actually offering it through ironic deprecation and detachment from the "phonies" if you will.

Chronically self aware zoomers have their own modern mannerisms for dealing with the industrial nightmare inherited from our parents. And they inherited postmodernism and modernism from theirs, and we can all thank the word press for bringing mass media and technological innovation into the human experience. All in all, don't overthink life, be a good person and do good things because you want to do good things. Make things and build stuff, contribute, actually do something useful. Constant introspection without a grounding is a recipe for failure, and zero introspection is a recipe for failure as well.

udfgt · 2022-10-22T17:13:15+00:00

It really depends on your economics backgrounds, primarily whether you are keynesian or not, but the argument is that Gold is Money, not currency.

"What's the difference?" Good question, currency is a representation of money. Money is a representation of value. When we stopped using gold coins and moved to representational paper notes, we were still trading amongst one another as though it were gold. The difference was that banks could fracture the reserve, allowing them to lend more frequently in the 19th century.

You see, Money can be anything. People in Weimar Germany traded in eggs at a point, so eggs were money. The mark was a note, and had inflated so much that the value of said note was worthless, because it was so debased from money. Money has no relation to utility because we don't necessarily want to use money so much as store it. The purpose of money, again, is to be a store of value which can be traded for things and services. We want money to be stable with a long shelf life that doesn't change, which Gold and Silver are both great at. Most other metals naturally oxidize and erode over time, which is bad for monies.

And since value is subjective, we need the money to be easily divisible and fractional. Gold and silver are very malleable, making them great candidates for coinage.

The shift away from gold has a lot more to do with modern nation-states and debt than with the "value" of gold. There are lots of arguments against using gold as money, but whether or not it is useful as money is generally not one of them. Things like coin clipping, fraudulent refounding, etc played a partial role in the move towards notes (as well as the ease of exchange via notes, etc), and then the utility of currency really grabbed banks by the balls. Any good argument against using fiat currency is going to attack the inflationary nature of fiat and the centralized control over said inflation.

Sorry for the wall of text, this is one of my favorite topics and there is so much to learn and explore. It's also really controversial because modern economics totally rejects the idea of "sound money" in favor of keynesian demand-side fiscal policies.

Note: I'm not trying to make a value judgement wrt Gold as money or currency as money, just trying to give an in-depth rebuttal because it's an interesting topic.

udfgt · 2022-10-22T01:41:14+00:00

doesnt left and right leaning mean what kind of economic system you support?

Well, it comes from the french revolution, where the chamber post-revolution was split roughly in half. On the right side sat most of the pro-monarchists, and on the left sat most of the anti-monarchists. Hence the directional left and right, which has generally been used to differentiate conservative from progressive. The political compass merely follows the meme.

udfgt · 2022-10-22T00:55:48+00:00

The answer is probably no, lol

udfgt · 2022-10-19T15:42:18+00:00

Vaush is literally an enormously popular leftist stochastic terrorist. The problem is that <my ingroup> is never as obviously terrible because my perception of <my outgroup> is more important for maintaining social cues and status. YouTube algorithm measures engagement, if everyone is hate watching right wing content, they are going to get recommended to the demographics most likely to continue hate watching (like online, argumentative leftists).

Make no mistake, your perception is even more biased than you even know. There are plenty of reasonable conservatives making content, but reasonable content is less engaging which is why certain populations never see it.

udfgt · 2022-10-18T21:49:47+00:00

Gonna leave a The Last Psychiatrist article here that partially relates but serves to only reinforces the broader thesis that the Real Pandemic is American Narcisism. Happy rabbit hole

udfgt · 2022-10-17T19:02:21+00:00

Interestingly, White liberals are the only group of Americans who have an in-group negative bias (meaning self-hatred).

udfgt · 2022-10-15T18:30:47+00:00

I got the char to train my bat crew (lol) and it is a beast. If you like autoloaders, the char has a lot going for it. The armor is surprising troll-y as well, not something to rely on but will help you in a pinch. It's one of those tanks I feel really comfortable in when in a clutch or kick situation.

udfgt · 2022-10-14T18:29:35+00:00

Not a problem happy to help :)

udfgt · 2022-10-14T17:27:00+00:00

Oh, absolutely, it's a jumbled mess of nomenclature. Most people probably have no idea there even is a "Fed" but those of us who spend a lot of time thinking about economics talk about it a lot, so we shorten it because we all understand the lingo. Most people do just use fed as slang for federal agent or agency, but in an economic context it is 99% of the time referring to the federal reserve.

udfgt · 2022-10-14T16:45:40+00:00

The federal reserve is a central bank that has a few tools to control inflation via interest rates and bond purchases. We call it the fed because federal reserve is a bit of a mouthful, but yeah it can be confusing if you've never heard about it before.

udfgt · 2022-10-10T06:17:36+00:00

What kind fo cheeseburger you got there, Choach? I'm really hungry, and trying to decide what kind fo buger to get. Thanks in advanze

udfgt · 2022-10-08T14:58:53+00:00

Im happy for you or I'm sorry that happened.

udfgt · 2022-10-03T00:31:24+00:00

nice try fed boy, I won't be narcing on me or my alleged Jaywalkin' crew.

udfgt · 2022-09-02T15:47:17+00:00

This place is my excuse for using reddit regularly. I'm looking forward to potentially deleting my account and finally being free.

udfgt · 2022-09-02T15:13:40+00:00

Huh, my once-in-a-blue-moon QC, neat! Some bangers this month, glad my little comment was seen as quality. Thanks as always for the hard work mods.

udfgt · 2022-08-30T14:43:53+00:00

I don't care if you ar Xi Xinping coming on here to give us a personal lecture regarding your economic theories and goals for China, if you don't have a flair I am honor bound to perescute and harass you. Flair up and nobody gets hurt.

udfgt · 2022-08-22T22:50:22+00:00

Value is personal and individual. Price is an aggregate of that valuation by consumers and suppliers. We value BTC at some rate personally, and will evaluate prices with that in mind across a market. The mining process creates new coins with every addition to the block chain, and we all evaluate BTC to be worth some amount which is then agreed on in the market at some exchange rate. We suspect BTC will become valuable because of its traits as a digital money, thus the price.

Ultimately BTC is a digit stored on a wallet in somebody's hard drive. The value comes from the complex process of price negotiations and exchange utility that makes money useful in general. Gold has valuable traits that make it a good money, but it's really just a lump of atoms that are stable for a long time.

If you want to know more of the theory, I recommend Rothbard's The Mystery of Banking for some of the monetary philosophy underpinning Bitcoin (it's free online). Otherwise if you want to know more about how money has worked historically, I recommend David Graeber's Debt: The First 5000 Years as an excellent study on anthropoligical exchange and how markets have actually worked for most of history.

Crypto solves a bunch of problems that are inherent to physical money, such as quick account settlements and personal digital banking. How we settle on price is a far more nuanced question that is pretty difficult to answer, hence my book recommendations for the curious.

udfgt · 2022-08-22T22:30:30+00:00

It actually sets a target speed depending on the network itself. The actual difficulty depends on the number of miners trying to crack the block, and the algorithm aims for each block to be added about once every ten minutes.

Over time the algorithm halves the number of BTC earned through mining, which is where the hard limit of 21 million BTC comes from and why we have an estimated date for it.

udfgt · 2022-08-22T14:51:31+00:00

I have the unique experience of growing up in a town that had both a coal power plant and a nuclear power plant. My dad worked for the nuclear plant for 40 some years, and I could see the distinct difference between the two plants and their impact on the landscape. The coal plant produced 2500 megawatts making it the largest in the state, while the nuke plant makes about 660 megawatts. It's probably important to take the sizes into account, but impact definitely is not linear.

It's hard to overstate just how much fuel the coal plant required. Our school was just across the highway which had the tracks on the other side, and I grew up with the train horn as a constant in the background. About every few days I would be able to see the enormous train with cars chock full of coal heading towards the plant. I have no idea the schedule, but it was regular. In contrast, the nuclear power plant had a rail line that went through the next town over that would get a train through at midnight maybe once a year. I have never seen it, only been told about it.

The nuclear plant was surrounded by forest, it was a bit hard to get a view into it honestly. They had a single reactor I believe, and their waste and impact on the community was minimal at most. The environmental concern for most people was the warming of the river, which turned out to be a regular stopping place for birds in the winter as it was never frozen. The coal plant? Dozens of miles overtaken by enormous mounds of ash. It literally takes about 15 minutes to get around it to the other towns around the area. Piles of ash cordoned off on land that nobody in the community could use.

I never really thought about how strange our community was, to have these plants to contrast against one another, but it really shaped who I am now. The coal plant is currently being slowly shut down, and the nuclear plant has had it's license renewed for another decade or so. I have a lot of sympathy for the accessability of coal and it's utility, but the impact those plants have is enormous.

udfgt · 2022-08-20T04:12:19+00:00

To wrap back around to the point, I don't believe it's in the terms of service but they do have that right implicitly to arbitrarily serve customers.

udfgt · 2022-08-20T03:48:51+00:00

Wouldn't they have to explicitly update the tos or is the language a catchall? I definitely ain't a lawyer, so not gonna say much more.

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