You can turn a Schrodinger antelope into 50% schrodinger pos-tilope and 50% schrodinger anti-lope.
I think I need a nap.
Edit: I made the damn antelopes. Now I can't figure out what the hell I needed them for.
I can out of storage so byproducts and such built up in Purple chests for a while.
Then I fixed it....things are riled. 176k logistics bots. We are down from the high of 200k.
The map:
I take a slightly higher tech approach to preparedness. I have a local copy of wikipedia. I know enough to run a small machine or two off small solar panels if needed.
I also have a DGX Spark. It is a neat little box, basically a mini-computer with 4TB of storage and a very solid GPU. It occurred to me that it might be an interesting resource for when I encounter something I just don't know how to do. When running all out, it uses up to 250watts, which is a lot but for a short time quite doable. When not taxing it, it is much much less.
So I decided to test it. I ran the gemma4:31b model and told it there was an earthquake, I had a water storage tank and wanted to keep the water safe to drink. This is something I've researched myself so I knew the right answers already. It did great, giving me the right warnings about using food safe plastics, how to dose the water with chlorine, what chlorine to use. I quizzed it about using pool test strips to make sure the chlorine was right. Its answers matched the research I've done before.
With how I was running the model (straight ollama terminal) I know it had no way to reach out and do any web searches, it was answering from its own model weights.
Now that information might be in my wikipedia archive as well. But maybe not. The nice thing about an LLM is you can describe your situation and what you have and it can come back with a step by step plan for your situation. I could see that being useful for all sorts of things I just don't know, like how to skin a rabbit or how to eat acorns.
I wanted a simple wet-bulb calculator site, so I made one.
As the climate changes this is something we should be aware of, as things get hotter there are times when it is simply unsafe to do work or exist. To understand when that is, we need to understand wet-bulb temperatures. Think of it is as the coolest you can get while absolutely coated with sweat.
Calculating this value isn't trivial, it involves a multi-step simulation. However, fortunately a clever sausage came up with a formula that works for most conditions we are likely to encounter close enough. That is what this site uses.
It has no ads. I'm paying for the hosting. I don't think the $1.25 this might cost me is going to be a problem. I don't have an agenda here beyond I like to make things that people use and find value in.
My base has been getting big. My computers have been slowing down. 140k bots will do it.
So I've been kinda looking at a new computer. It won't completely help because I play on multiple computers but it is a start.
Then I happened to be at Costco and saw this:
It has the key feature, which is the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D which is very close to the best if not the best CPU for Factorio with the large cache size.
So I got it, I got it setup. My factory is so fast now.
Also, with modern heat pipes and such I'm not sure I can even build computers properly anymore.
I might dig in the bios and see if I can turn down the RGB lighting...it is a little much.
Ok, this sub has been a bit of a wasteland so I'm making a change.
There is now a new rule, rule 9 - no price posts. There will be an automatic weekly thread for price discussion. I totally get that a lot of people (including me) care about the price of cryptocurrency assets, especially in these trying times. But this sub should be about more than 15 posts a day expressing big emotions about tiny market movements.
I've been trying to think of a better way to moderate this but I don't want to be in position of saying this guy's insane scribbling on a chart has merit while this other guy's AI baboon riding to the moon does not. (They are both equally deranged) So my decision is no price posts.
Comments are fine.
I think if this movement is to be about anything, it has to be about more than the price.
I added a rail route which was a shortcut between two sections and wondered if it was getting any use. So I made a rail counter. This game is modded, but it should work fine in vanilla.
https://www.factoriocodex.com/blueprints/297
Here it is in action, just having been deployed:
https://bulk.1209k.com/factorio/HotSlugFall/?x=844.6&y=386.4&z=4.5
Just a project I decided to throw together.
The display is the Square Hyperpixel 4.0. It is driven with a Raspberry PI Zero 2 W.
Then using mpv to play video. Shuffle, no audio.
It actually looks a good bit better in person than the photo shows.
Transcoding just for the display, so down-sampling a bit because the display is only 720 wide, I have the entire series at 40GB.
Power consumption: 2.5 watts.
I have been working on a py run. I'm not sure I'm winning. 800 hours in.
I mostly did all of my ore processing with stacks like this:
https://bulk.1209k.com/factorio/HotSlugFall/?x=232.0&y=-773.4&z=3.9
Ideally, I leave space and can extend each machine type as I want to have higher throughput or figure out the ratios better. It works well in early to mid game, it is easy, it scales ok, puts no load on logistics network. But then it breaks down, it is hard to get enough flowing on the belts and I always run out of room.
So I've tried a new setup. This one says nuts to ratios, we just one a copyable block that does the thing. This is the chromium processing. It is rigged to make gold and spit out chromium as a side product but whatever. Parts of it feed back as some rejects/side products get reprocessed again.
So here it is, one of each machines. Ratios are all a mess but it works. And I can paste down as many as I need.
https://bulk.1209k.com/factorio/HotSlugFall/?x=208.3&y=1803.9&z=2.5
And here is tin, this one passed acceptance testing and has been replicated. I like to put fences around self-contained modules so I don't lose track of where the edges are for copy and paste. Plus I think it is cool.
https://bulk.1209k.com/factorio/HotSlugFall/?x=962.9&y=1832.4&z=2.6
--Excelsior
This nonsense is better than most of the nonsense that gets posted here.
My request is that people should get weirder. Please. We need it.
When I was younger, I basically read this book cover to cover:
Do-It-Yourself Housebuilding: The Complete Handbook by George Nash (1995).
https://www.amazon.com/Do-Yourself-Housebuilding-Complete-Handbook/dp/0806904240
It isn't perfect, but it gets you the fundamentals on everything. Can anyone recommend something like that but more modern? Sure, a lot of things haven't changed much but I'd be interested to learn about new materials options for roofing, siding, and insulation.