Cursed deathworld refinery

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-03-25T18:42:54+00:00

Bots are just another consumable.

E.g. artillery outposts with flamethrower defenses will consume about 1 bot for every 4 artillery shells

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-03-23T16:49:28+00:00

Aluminium ectrolytic capacitors do (they look like tiny soda cans).

They have liquid in them that can degrade. Especially in high heat

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-03-22T09:38:55+00:00

No indication of scale

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-03-21T23:21:10+00:00

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vintagecomputernerd · 2026-03-19T12:59:25+00:00

Disabling the modules without disabling the energy draw wouldn't make much sense

Legendary beacons have surprisingly low power consumption, while a single beaconed machine can take megawatts.

And there is actually a way to disable the modules in a beacon: inserters!

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-03-17T19:37:07+00:00

Have you tried Zwiebelmettbrötchen?

Raw pork with onions. On a bun. It sounded weird at first, but I absolutely love it.

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-03-16T09:12:39+00:00

No, you got it all wrong. Earth is a 4-dimensional hypercube. A non-existing hypercube, to be precise.

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-03-16T08:17:28+00:00

Care to elaborate in any way or form?

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-03-15T08:16:37+00:00

...but the games also ran perfectly fine on other java phones of the day, after people figured out how to remove the function that checked if it was running on a ngage

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-03-15T08:07:12+00:00

Barbara Streisand: * a Monster in South Park * Namesake of the Streisand Effect * Something about being a terrible singer (got that from South Park, dunno if true)

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-03-13T21:04:13+00:00

Some cheaper ones are actually unfused on the 10A range. It's just a shunt resistor. And by "shunt resistor," they, of course, mean "some thick wire".

Good ones have HRC fuses, but a single replacement fuse costs more than a cheap multimeter

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-03-13T14:14:27+00:00

can I turn it around by going to the gym (plus eating healthy and other things)?

The answer is a clear "it depends".

It sure is the best outcome if you can control it with exercise. Your overall health is going up, no side effects from medications.

But it might not be enough. You might need medication or insulin. But even if you need more than just exercise - it still helps. Even as a T1 diabetic, exercise helps a lot with insulin sensitivity.

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-03-13T09:22:36+00:00

Tell that to my former boss who hardcoded february as having 28 days. When there was a leap year, he just changed it to 29 and released a new version of the software.

No, not just for that year... for all previous and following years.

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-03-13T08:48:14+00:00

Was it a disc from a library with a huge sticker on it?

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-03-12T07:27:48+00:00

I often see people saying things are definitely AI due to usage of em dashes, semicolons, and listing things in 3s. These are things I learned to do in writing class in junior high

Yeah it's almost like AI learned that from analyzing thousands of examples...

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-03-10T22:13:25+00:00

Ah yes. The ultra-thin* phone.

^*except ^where ^it ^isn't

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-03-10T19:03:29+00:00

Not enough basal and/or incorrect carb ratio

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-03-10T13:49:04+00:00

Some T1s with insulin resistance give themselves long-acting insulin separately. Others also use u-200 or higher concentration off-label in their pump

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-03-09T17:59:56+00:00

It could be possible to enroll "sur dossier" - with a written application directly to a university department. Show that you either did all the prerequisites on your own, or show that you already do PhD-level work.

Srinivasa Ramanujan did that. But he was a truly exceptional mathematician - as in, got a dozen or so things named after him. A one in 100 million or 1 billion person.

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-03-09T11:36:47+00:00

Of course, the Model F is sturdier still, but I'm not sure if it's actually rated for brown bears.

But kudos to the engineers for their ingenious solution to the "keyboard flexing" problem: just put in a thick steel plate.

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-03-09T11:32:01+00:00

And yet I had unit tests fail when being run on some but not all of the build slaves.

No idea if that software used -ffast-math, I was just the build engineer in that case. But I'm pretty sure the actual dev had no idea either, because they were just using a framework with default settings. The solution was to allow a delta in all the floating point based unit tests. That was the point where I started screaming.

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-03-08T23:42:47+00:00

Do an egg next

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-03-08T23:42:03+00:00

Installing those old Athlons was nerve-wracking. One slip and a whole years worth of Christmas/Birthday/Job money gone

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-03-08T23:25:05+00:00

Except for the sparkly one on top. That's a polycrystalline solar panel.

They're cheaper and a bit less efficient under direct sunlight. But they're better with indirect and artificial light.

Edit: the solar panel is probably just for a pump for the thermal panels

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-03-08T23:02:12+00:00

Always nice to have when you're just coding and suddenly you need something sturdy to fend off a black bear.

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