No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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No_one
4d ago
The federal government employs a lot of people, and those people aren't being spewed out by a magic high-IQ-only people factory;
There used to be a standard for federal bureaucrats - IQ tests, essentially.
No_one
6d ago
You have had Musk posting a video of Jeffrey Sachs giving the Russian perspective on Ukraine. ..and what hawkish Republicans are now even there?
Didn't they all sign up for Never trump? Is Trump stupid enough to give them a chance once more?
No_one
6d ago
I have always found her untrustworthy. Nor sure why.
It's not about politics- I generally approve of what she's for she just does seem to be too calculating in what she says.
No_one
7d ago
The vast bloody altar is only a metaphor on nature and human nature, part of a famous quote.
the whole vast domain of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom. As soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom, you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life. You feel it already in the vegetable kingdom: from the great catalpa to the humblest herb, how many plants die, and how many are killed. But from the moment you enter the animal kingdom, this law is suddenly in the most dreadful evidence. A power of violence at once hidden and palpable … has in each species appointed a certain number of animals to devour the others. Thus there are insects of prey, reptiles of prey, birds of prey, fishes of prey, quadrupeds of prey. There is no instant of time when one creature is not being devoured by another. Over all these numerous races of animals man is placed, and his destructive hand spares nothing that lives. He kills to obtain food and he kills to clothe himself. He kills to adorn himself, he kills in order to attack, and he kills in order to defend himself. He kills to instruct himself and he kills to amuse himself. He kills to kill. Proud and terrible king, he wants everything and nothing resists him.
From the lamb he tears its guts and makes his harp resound ... from the wolf his most deadly tooth to polish his pretty works of art; from the elephant his tusks to make a toy for his child - his table is covered with corpses ... And who in all of this will exterminate him who exterminates all others? Himself. It is man who is charged with the slaughter of man ... So it is accomplished ... the first law of the violent destruction of living creatures. The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but a vast altar upon which all that is living must be sacrificed without end, without measure, without pause, until the consummation of things, until evil is extinct, until the death of death."
- Joseph de Maistre
I have no understanding of your faith, whatever it might be.
Playing in a sandbox by myself is not interesting anymore(put a ~few 100 hrs into that).
PvP multiplayer is where it's at, but last I checked those servers either had punishing settings where you'd spend a day slaving away to build the equivalent of the 'starter' ship.
I tried it a few times, and if you gave me the yellow starter ship out in orbit, I could get enough materials to build this in three hours..
These are gravity drive powered remote control miners that chew a straight way through an asteroid, throw out uninteresting ore and then report 'job done'.
You can basically build anything. The guys basically made a 'game construction kit', not a game. I basically gave up on it after I understood something as simple as a huge (100k tons) ship can lag a server by itself if it's moving. The engine is a toy engine.
They also gradually removed much of the challenge of the game itself.
Ironically, the actual 'Space Engineers' game is KSP. You've got heat, aerodynamics, actual slightly simplified orbital mechanics.
can be annoying to line up at best, and Clangtastic more often.
I dunno, I remember merge blocks being fairly okayish. I used them for docking without issues.
No_one
8d ago
Ditto.
I suspect there's a bias in the medical industry against stuff that's not a drug.
No_one
8d ago
It is a great answer, I'll give him that.
See, you say a lot of things that are helpful, which probably explains why religion spreads. None of it seems remotely plausible or truthful to me.
Inferring a benevolent creator from this vast bloody altar is just too darn odd. And various gnostic shades of shit, where you posit an actual great deity behind an evil one. (sigh). Even worse outcomes, even more preposterous.
No_one
9d ago
People who live long don't take hundreds of supplements, but are generally those who love life, themselves, socially active and even a bit insufferable. Like Trump. Oldest person in my family was a bit like him, also pretty sharp to old age, very high self-regard.
Lifting weights to restore muscle lost after sarcopenia starts in sixties really helps. You won't live much longer, but you can move around and do stuff. E.g. Dr. Eugster who decided to lift weights to regain muscle at 87, lived to 97 pretty actively. Or here's Ernestine Shepherd, training old people in a gym at age.. probably late 80s.. She had a body better than most twenty-somethings by 80, nice muscle definition, erect posture. (see attachment for age 85)
If they're physically active and careful enough, easily live to mid 90s.
My grandma who I'm talking about had a massive heart attack at 79 after smoking for half a century, the kind that usually kills people, then lived fairly sedentarily on heart medication until 93 and her irreversible overnight fall in the bathroom while living alone. After that she spent a year in a hospice, mostly sleeping or drowsing but lucid for the daily hr one of her sons came, brought her beer and visited. Her mind was going so she lost her filter, and we heard incredible things. I wonder if she'd have preferred DNR.
No_one
9d ago
Joe Rogan claims a stem cell therapy basically fixed one of his problematic joints.
No_one
9d ago
Some book recommendations for you and anyone else:
Classics: I rate Clarke much higher than either Asimov or.. Bradbury. As a writer. Although honestly even if Clarke paid for child sex in Ceylon, that still makes him a vastly more likeable individual than Asimov, the eternal consequences of evolution denying high-modernist tool..
Midrange: SM Stirling is essentially an SF writer even if he writes fantasy, which he seems to like. He's not the best but he's pretty good and the Draka series is unparalleled as a political Turing test. He is a rare type of guy - a die-hard 1776 liberal, but biologically aware, evolution-pilled in regards to organisms of all scales, whether individual or societal. Most of his stuff is weird alt-history like the Dies the Fire series where electricity stops working. Probably a good read, but I like his SF. He has notably contributed imo the best novellas to both the War World anthology (about the codominium prison moon of Haven) and Niven's Kzinti one.
Alastair Reynolds (active from cca 1990) worked as an astronomer, so he's got the hard-sf part down. It is often space opera, but it's a fresh look at how that'd be in a STL universe where you can, at best, hug the lightspeed because a bunch of actually elite human capital- cybernetic researchers taking advantage of freedom on Mars networked their brains with nanomachines, became something way beyond human and moved the tech frontier in a big way to infinite thrust engines that, rumor has it, just tap the ongoing big bangs in parallel universes thus allowing constantly functioning reaction drive.
Setting (for the obvious reason) doesn't have superhuman AIs with a few exceptions.
New:
I have sympathies to anarchists, one can't really feel glad about the necessity of the entire sausage machine required in our finite world on a flat surface. So Iain M.Banks's Culture series isn't really about the utopia or even that political, it's more of a very high effort space opera.
You seemed to have missed Greg Egan. If he's too weird/spergy for you with his math stuff, it's not omnipresent. The short story collections Axiomatic and Luminous are very good, Distress & Zendegi I'd also recommend.
Like I said in a previous FF thread, I very much appreciate Walter Blaire, a new true SF writer. As in, it's not just lasers pasted in for rifles, it's about internally coherent worlds that are different to ours for material reasons. That's why I came to dislike Star Wars - it's just the stale old WW2 myth but in space.
Although he takes more of the 'human/history' angle, as his books are less about shiny tech but more about the ways organisations and biology trap people. Especially raising the salience of the latter is very praiseworthy and I hope to one day make him profoundly cringe about the implications of that. Guy writes as fun book, steps on the sorest thumb there is inadvertently.
No_one
9d ago
But Space Engineers has a grid.
The problem with Space Engineers is that a building game with a default multiplayer build limit that you can max out in 6 hours is kinda pointless. Played some of it but honestly..
No_one
9d ago
I deleted that mess (it worked but required babysitting) and remade it with bigger, better thought out modular parts.
Now it's almost attention free and keeps working.
Gleba is really good imo because stack inserters are godly. You can basically 4x the capacity of any belt. Incredible!
No_one
9d ago
I didn't play it in this game but it's lovely looking at it.
Infinite power. Infinite minerals. 50% productivity smelters. You can pipe liquid metal everywhere. You can easily fill out a belt with basic metal components.
What else do you need ?
No_one
9d ago
Biters in vanilla are nothing, nothing. Just build walls and minefields. You've got robots for that. It's a set of pretty simple blueprints you copy & paste. Terrain is flat, rocks dynamited.
Finally knuckled down and put together an actually good item quantity balancer (no mods, loads a train car with ~30 different items in specified quantities. Pretty simple. Subtracts what's in the buffer box from what's in the train, turns every negative smaller than -10value into 1, and puts that to the filter inserter. Inverse filter inserter on the other side, with smaller stack, and it does the job.) If you spam this and segment the logistic network (using the same algo) to push non-train stuff out networks and push normal items in, you can expand endlessly.
Hell with that you could expand endlessly even with Rampant as with nuclear shells cleaning up what's actually 'Deathworld squared' becomes a possibility, your wall just has to be high firepower enough to deal with inevitable massive attack Rampant loves to spring at you. Once you have nukes, blasting the entire area around your base with nuclear fire feels so, so satisfying. (have to do this manually, It's way too much of a waste, algo isn't made for nuclear shells).
The only downside is the UPS drops to 10 for 3 minutes every 45 minutes when Rampant is busily moving the kill counter into the half a million range. But the fireworks are epic.
No_one
9d ago
In general, I strongly recommend using this over the "industry standard" Python-based setup, as the overheads of 1GB+ of random dependencies and interpreted language do tend to build up in ways beyond what shows up in benchmarks
Very true. Playing around with stable diffusion has made the impossible - made my windows seize up over memory, actual app crashes & need to restart the system more than every three weeks when the inevitable update happens.
I had to download rammap from sysinternals because it could delete leaked memory a1111 spilled in gigabytes every time a model was being swapped. Every ~50 mb of pics generated it will need restarting.
Maybe I should go to comfyUI.
No_one
10d ago
The only real difference is, instead of conveyor belts that end, you need loops.
Everything on Gleba except ore decays into spoilage, which can be processed, rapidly & inefficiently into nutrients, which all the bio-reactors need to work, or turned into carbon & explosives.
All you need to do. And ofc, all the bioreactors require removing spoilage and putting in nutrients. And since sometimes a lot of stuff can spoil, long-handed inserters aren't the best. Actually, why didn't I just interleave the shit out of it.
...play play play, write down something and figure out what's probably a way better solution.
No_one
10d ago
(scratches nose absent-mindedly) So what kind of SF reader are you?
I've read cca 400+ books on last count, most of them SF. Surely I could come up with a few recs.
Just burn it for electricity. I brought Tesla towers, they incinerate a megawatt each on standby. The giant crabs are not killable otherwise than rockets or electricity.
But you can process it all into carbon, which takes up less space and store it too. Even make coal out of it, really. Which you need to do anyway because of the giant crabs, which are very, very tough and armor-piercing rockets are really the only way to deal with them.
No_one
11d ago
where everyone's fate is at the hands of a midwit apparatchik.
... who do you think caused European energy policy ?
Midwit unaccountable apparatchiks ruining entire continents is SOP. Germany's disastrous energy policy started when the fucking Greens got two secretaries or undersecretaries to the ministry of economy, iirc, cca 2000.
Try to show me Energiewende, based on wishful thinking, was sound policy. It wasn't. It was pie in the sky, cost must falls, we'll make it nonsense, that led to what everyone predicted. Sky high energy prices, burning more coal, spending megabucks on keeping standby plants running so you don't have brownouts.
Yet that doomed an entire continent. No one was ever asked.
I ask you again who in the US wanted infinity migration and 7% of population of Haiti moved in?
At least the CCP has somewhat sound priorities: having power and getting rich. Not turning China into Brazil with worse weather.
No_one
11d ago
Used to be the case. Very much used to be the case. Not the case anymore. Lot of science talent has gone to China. Lot of white scientists have gone to China, where there's no DEI, and ideology in science is restricted to having students take a few hours monthly. They have no problem with insane school policies, homeless junkie schizos etc. China is cleaning up the air. Closing down old power plants, building up wind & solar in inner Mongolia, building new coal power plants with an eye to be converted to modular nuclear. They're currently in lead in nuclear reactor tech - having learned everything the West forgot, building up old & new types, more than the rest of the world combined. Cost of living is a lot lower in China, and wages are getting better.
Assuming you're american, China is extremely cheap, the RMB undervalued by 50%. You can go see for yourself. If you've got foreign SIM card, your internet isn't even gated behind the great firewall. With machine translation, you wouldn't even really be lost. Don't think they install shit on your phone unless you enter from one of the 'stans where they have an insurgent problem.
You could just go take a look. Or look around for someone who works there.
Guy here has a number of episodes interviewing whites who work or worked in China. https://www.manifold1.com/episodes
Finally got it working.
Had to make the nutrient belt look whether all the fruit processing, flux making and nutrient making machines are running, and only then start feeding the rest of the factory. Sequence related issues, having to gate all the flows to parts unless they're working..
If I had to do it all over again, I'd leave more space between the segments, and also pre-install some belts.
Gleba is really OP if you get it to work, the amount of iron and copper you get from bacteria is nuts.
No_one
11d ago
The US machine moves more slowly but once it gains momentum it tends to get there.
It was not the case back in the glory days of WW2. Today, it took Americans 15 years to solve oxygen issues in an oxygen generator for pilots.
The only possible case of this happening is if both are true a) US develops AI, and it's not a matter of compute but some special sauce (it has a proverbial moat). b) US manages to get around all the legal issues in expanding industry - endless wrangling over backyards, enviromental issues
If a) is not true, China will boost their manufacturing likewise. If b) is not true, US won't be able to expand its own manufacturing.
Also, unless AI at the level of hypersonic aviation researcher become available, China will have an edge population wise. Chinese aren't as imaginative but are less easily distracted - way more engineers. Furthermore, rivalry will drive out Chinese ethnic workers out of the US, quite likely.
No_one
11d ago
EU will buy U.S. gas not Russian gas
My gas bill went up 2.5x times in '23. US LNG is, at the very least, 3x more expensive intrinsically compared to piped gas. It's quite likely following the war, Nord Stream is going to be repaired (currently 3/4 pipes are broken) and put back into order.
Gas prices have already devastated German industry, we could just shutter everything and keep buying US energy, but I don't think that's likely. Not everyone's like me and considering leaving this place.
China wants to work peacefully with us
That's what you heard. What the Chinese meant is that they're not Khorne enthusiasts, they don't consider shedding blood the point of war and want to see US bow out of the contest over who gets to call the shots in East Asia peacefully.
Their plan is, build up the army and the army's navy to the point US is going to be facing insurmountable odds - overwhelmed with masses of precision weapons. According to simulations, US is almost always losing the war anyway because it has no good missile defense, not enough interceptors and all local bases are in range of Chinese missiles.
In addition, likely China can blockade Japan and Korea from, at least tankers, without ever leaving home. If Iran can make a few 100 ballistic missiles, Chinese can make thousands and thousands of accurate ones. US is making ~150 ABM interceptors a year. No contest.
So a protracted war would hurt everyone, not just Chinese, and ever more so, as China's moving to using more EVs and building up their domestic grid.
Nah, it's a grotesque postmodern psyop.
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