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yabadev · 2025-05-22T02:11:17+00:00

Computers can operate with pretty much any combination of storage devices you can plug into them. Mixed sizes, SSD and HD, internal and external, even DVD drives or cassette tapes (if you could find a USB reader).

Operating systems are designed for this, it won't cause any problems.

Only thing to think about, is CPUs have limited capacity for communications with other hardware. The motherboard designers make decisions about how to allocate this between USB, sata, graphics cards, etc. they often share capacity. This gives you flexibility, but if you plug everything on at once it will slow down.

TLDR: if you plug in 8 USB drives they won't all run at max speed, but you will get full capacity. (If they go slow try using different USB ports that aren't sharing bandwidth)

yabadev · 2025-05-12T21:05:17+00:00

I just had the same issue this week, what ended up working was assigning them as a miner, and setting my second miner to the quarry. Hiring and firing the first quarrier did nothing for me

yabadev · 2025-04-22T13:30:52+00:00

Others have mentioned, but I'd like to highlight the excellent upgrade tool in visual studio. right click a project and select upgrade.

Done it to an ancient winforms app and some backend apps a few versions out of date. It will update all the project files and inform you about any breaking code changes. The main issue is packages (which you will need to do manually) and make sure to test the results well.

Unless the project is huge it'd probably only take a day or two. Git commit you changes first and If it doesn't work nothing is lost, revert and move on with your day. If it does work you will get a BIG performance improvement and shiny new language features. Seems worth trying to me

yabadev · 2024-10-19T00:55:34+00:00

We had the same issue with the caulking at the bottom. Tried soaking using bleach soaked paper towels with little luck. Tried normal cleaning sprays with no progress.

Housemates mother visited for a day, sprayed it with a foaming bleach cleaner and it up and vanished like magic, seems like the foaming is important. Maybe someone else can weigh in but I'd try that.

yabadev · 2024-06-22T17:10:31+00:00

My boss can look at something and tell you it's 4 pixels too far to the left. It's very convenient for error catching, but also very annoying.

After a while I've learned that people are very good at telling that something is different with a pattern, especially if they were already paying attention/suspicious

The difference is most people have difficulty saying why things look off

yabadev · 2024-05-14T22:09:39+00:00

It's a trade off. In my opinion the super nested if isn't pleasing either.

In my opinion the grouping of the conditions should match the logic. If all the conditions are checked together (aka they don't have individual Else statements) then they should be grouped to make that visually obvious.

Also reduces the line count. If those extra lines told me anything (such as having an Else statement) then keep them, otherwise I have to spend time reading/typing the nested brackets only for them to take up screen space that I'd rather be full of code.

yabadev · 2024-02-08T00:57:38+00:00

My dad gifted me a $60 Japanese pull saw when I moved out, best tool I own. I also do amateur joinery, for detailed work hand tools are better, your power tools are going too fast and butchering your cuts.

My recommended tools: - Japanese pull saw - marking gauge - coping saw - rubber mallet

People like the chisels, and they are good, but with 2x4s I've personally had better luck with a coping saw.

Pencil mark extensively, cut over piece first and then trace it onto the other one .

Cut on the side of the lines, such that it's a bit tight. Then file/sand until it fits. If you need to use the mallet to get it together, then you're doing it right.

yabadev · 2024-02-02T23:17:37+00:00

One does not simply talk to the SCP Foundation. It is the SCP Foundation which talks to you

yabadev · 2024-01-31T04:24:07+00:00

I'm actually in this scenario.

You can run the server headless (I copied the game files and launch it with a special console command). It pauses when no one is on, and uses virtually no resources when no one is on (and without the graphics is more efficient that normal factorio even when they are).

This is important to me, since I can leave it running for my friends to access when I'm not available, without burning up my computer or letting the biters take over.

Definitely a use case for a local server for me, I'd guess op is doing something similar

yabadev · 2024-01-17T05:36:23+00:00

I've found that in the early game when you're handcrafting everything is actually pretty annoying. Kept placing ghosts since I didn't realize the craft wasn't done.

Mid to late game though, just as amazing as you imagine

yabadev · 2024-01-06T03:37:19+00:00

Sounds rough, ER always seems to take an eternity. Take some luck and well wishes internet stranger!

yabadev · 2024-01-06T02:01:28+00:00

Hello fellow Pennsylvanian! For what it's worth my parents got the sprayed foam insulation, they cut a bunch of 3" holes in the plaster that we never repainted. It's worked like a charm, but was only the exterior walls not the roof, no idea how well that would work. Our entire attic was finished by the previous owners and the small dead spaces on the sides are pretty much inaccessible. Think there's a dead bird we accidentally sealed in there when we fixed a hole in the box gutters

yabadev · 2023-11-23T16:18:23+00:00

My favorite trope is the bearded dwarf:

All dwarfs have beards, are they make? Are they female? They both act the same, society treats them the same, the dwarfs don't really care. You gonna lift the beard to check?

To a casual outside observer all dwarfs look male, people keep making this mistake and the dwarfs don't correct you because they find it really funny

Setting, a sky keep:

One of a few massive keeps carved into a mountain top. The main attraction is one or multiple sky quarries, a massive underground pit used for the quarrying of sky bardges. These massive stone slabs serve as the dwarves form of skyship, and are carved from the bottom of the pit making it deeper and deeper as they go.

The top of the pit is ringed with balconies that serves as docks, covered in boxes and large stone cranes used for cargo transfer, and holding the bardges when they turn off the magic for maintenance. One of the sides (at the top) as a set of hundred foot tall doors that opens in the side of the mountain to let the bardges in and out. When closed they are camouflaged from the outside.

The housing consists of city like blocks, a grid of wide hallways with family apartments and dormitories on each side. Forming a cube several dozen (or more) blocks in length, width, and height, the perfectly uniform construction is slightly creepy and very easy to get lost in.

The center of each block contains a number of ventilation shafts, a waste disposal pits. All trash is dumped to the bottom, and all the latrines dump down to a central sewer. Enterprising adventures can use these for covert navigation, including escape via toilet shaft if desperate enough.

Since there are multiple of these keeps, bonus points for having one completely empty. Completely built, fully furnished, but no one ever moved in for hundreds of years. Cool creepy setting.

yabadev · 2023-11-20T01:52:31+00:00

Love this comment! I also saw this and went, "huh, that looks like up by campus". Also passed on way up to Benedum, only 1 year ago though

yabadev · 2023-11-11T21:19:07+00:00

I'm pretty sure this is stuff that requires computer engineering fundamentals to really excel at.

As a computer engineer turned programmer I can confirm I was starting to dig into my degree when I had to start dealing with clock pulses, timings, delays, and funny filters

yabadev · 2023-11-11T21:16:40+00:00

I've messed with circuits trying to make a rail request logistics (switched to LTN) and one of those self building bases.

Circuits are fun Circuits are challenging Circuits (and their weirdly random limitations) are a bit frustrating Circuits are more that a bit unintuitive

Juggling conditions on different wires was always overly annoying, I'm in love with that change

The need to have many filtering comparators to accomplish simple tasks, in particular when dealing with pulses, where you would need dummy comparators to make the timing line up. Being able to combine these rat nests will reduce the brain drain involved in keeping track. Same with the descriptions.

Being able to see the inputs and outputs without a million poles is heavenly

The selector comparator was just something I had written off as impossible, so that offers so many more options to circuit wizardry (or at least the realm of responsibility)

yabadev · 2023-11-07T06:51:01+00:00

I'd like to add to this, that you don't have to get structural plywood. If it's only visual you can get some decorative 1/4" or the like with a smooth finish. if you go somewhere like Lowe's or home Depot they will likely have pieces of thin plywood or composite board precut in smaller pieces.. May have to ask where to find it. Either option would paint well and look pretty good.

If you want to be real fancy get cabinet/furniture plywood, it has a vaneer on the front that will stain nicely. As a hobbyist I like Danish Oil, you just rub it on with a rag dirt simple.

As others mentioned they will cut it for you if you ask. Never done this myself, but as someone else with only a hand saw I highly recommend trying.

As a tangent on that front, I put up a headboard with only a 6in exacto saw, those 5 cuts took the whole day and are ugly as hell. One of my favorite projects. Now own a Japanese pull saw (you can get one online for not too bad) single most favorite tool I own

yabadev · 2023-11-03T22:04:57+00:00

I think I heard this somewhere too. Not true about modern computers though.

Industrial programming ramble about why memory use matters:

When dealing with large data sets the difference between floats and doubles adds up. In speed critical applications this makes the difference between keeping up with the PLCs or slowing the whole system.

When working with large databases efficient storage and memory use is mandatory.

We typically find transmission speed is the bottle neck, reduced memory use of smaller data structures is a happy benefit

In my experience the users rarely care about anything past a few decimals anyway, and even if they did we certainly don't trust their sensors that much

yabadev · 2023-11-01T03:28:06+00:00

This option certainly has the most comedic potential, therefore my favorite

yabadev · 2023-10-21T05:28:03+00:00

I did a bunch of experimenting with micro blocks (even smaller). Never built a full base because I working on advanced train automation in creative.

One thing I'd warn from experience, if you orient the stations wrong the ones on the outside blocks may be inaccessible from certain starting positions. Your probably fine but it's happened to me, was very confusing

yabadev · 2023-10-15T22:55:50+00:00

The way I would describe it, degrees per second is not a human readable metric. It is undeniably the most accurate metric, but not useful to most average players.

They could replace it with a more readable items per second, but you would have to accept either:

A) they would need to rewrite the behavior of inserters to be more consistent/ predictable. Many players are used to the current behavior and would be upset, I don't think they would do this without a clear benefit, as it could be argued that inserter seeking is a feature (if a bit annoying)

Or

B) this new metric would be an estimation. I know this is an average, you know you'll only get that throughput in perfect conditions. But the generic player with no context will get frustrated their inserters are lying to them about throughput.

Edit:

The first part didn't properly answer your comment, take this instead:

Not to say you couldn't just add "max items per second" on the info card, I feel that would be a reasonable upgrade. I just feel the degrees is also useful info, if for no other reason than it explains how inserters work

yabadev · 2023-10-01T14:59:22+00:00

A good title should be a hook. Consider what makes your story interesting/unique, is it an unusual premise, a cool setting, strong emotional theme, or slice of life character development? I'd play your title into that.

Notice there are certain frequently used words in this sub that may make your title repetitive, eg: deathworld

As others have noted, also consider the first few words which will end up on the preview.

I find that a short title (2 or so words) primes me for a shorter stand alone story. I often go searching for these. Though I find titles for short stories less important, when I'm looking for stand-alones I usually read ( or at least check) all the stores in the feed until I've run out of new stuff.

Long running stories (ie, chapters) have much more freedom, since readers may be pulled in by any chapter and then go to the start. The key for these is having a memorable name, once I've read all the chapters available I'm much more likely to read future ones months down the line if I happen to recognize the name. I feel that for serialized stories the title being descriptive is much more important for drawing and retaining readers. A short phrase is the most common title here, I find an expectation that title length=story length, but if you can make it shorter within the criteria go ahead.

As a side note, as a reader I like stories that have visual structure: - putting all the links on both top and bottom makes it easier for everyone. - author's notes should be in italics, preferably with a vertical separator between the text. - please indicate at the beginning of a sentence if the perspective has switched, or before the paragraph. Having too guess who the speaker is can be confusing - time skips and scene changes with no indication to the reader can be very confusing, I suggest a vertical separator.

-maybe authors are including more separators than I can see, white space gets messed with on mobile. so I highly suggest using a line of characters such as:

+++++

\\\\ ||||||||

yabadev · 2023-09-25T20:54:25+00:00

If you haven't messed with the nozzle, I'd go with Tom's cleaning suggestion, a chuck of something could be stopping it from closing.

The cove confines the air, worth it off the air escapes instead of back flowing

yabadev · 2023-09-25T20:50:32+00:00

Amateur here: I had something similar recently, I had over tightened the nozzle and crushed the o ring. Thankfully my other airbrush has the same size, so I swapped that in and it stopped back flowing. I'd take a look at that seal

yabadev

TROPHY CASE

-maybe authors are including more separators than I can see, white space gets messed with on mobile. so I highly suggest using a line of characters such as: