I’d suspect so. I’ve gotten in the habit of aggressively using stackable pipeline supports for all alignment and making good use of horizontal to vertical pipe layouts for aligning floor entry points.

Foundry is an upcoming game that’s probably worth keeping an eye on.

Yea, it specifically looks like a small concrete pillar.

Oh, my suggestion is just to have some of your aluminum factories use waste water exclusively… then it’s impossible to have a backup.

One nice thing compared to Factorio is that the ratios in this are pretty approachable - I know some people go fucking crazy trying to be hyper optimized about power usage but, tbh, there’s a fuckton of power available unless you start power-slugging production buildings so the math has always felt manageable to me.

One thing that might be fucking you over is bugs. Both ceiling and wall sockets can cause pipeline flow bugs - I switched to using only:

• Default (not clean) mk1/2 pipes
• Pumps mk1/2
• Valves
• Intersections
• Pipe supports (the default thing when building pipelines)
• Pipe wall supports
• Stackable pipeline supports

I never touch wall/ceiling sockets and have had to fully destroy networks that got into a bugged state because of them, and I just clip my pipes through walls when necessary.

I also try quite hard to never lift fluids as pumps can bug the fuck out - so I’ll usually build factories at grade or pump water down from elevated reservoirs (like the crater lakes).

Fluids are super broken IMO due to some rare but devastating bugs and the extremely limited pipe throughput… I’d personally rather they just treated them as solids using conveyor belts than the state they’re in right now.

To be honest, I usually dedicate some refineries to using waste water - the Satisfactory fluid mechanics are too janky and all the fluid logic gates you might see creators discuss are based on specifics of how fluid calculations are done which could be changed without warning (especially for things like putting a hump in a line - that relies on the engine not doing some specific optimizations).

Having waste go into refineries that get priority on bauxite means you’ll need to pay a few minutes to build a buffer initially and then your output should be consistent as long as the refinery capacity and bauxite flow are sufficient.

Honestly? Pretty fucking awesome if you get it configured correctly. I don’t think it’s super useful for production (I prefer chef/vagrant) but for dev boxes it’s incredible at producing consistent environments even on different OSes and architectures.

Anything that makes it less painful for a dev to destroy and rebuild an environment that’s corrupt or even just a bit spooky pays for itself almost immediately.

Based and vagrant pilled.

Nice sink integration… I always enjoy leaving the radar dish poking out like a comms tower!

Ah, that’s when we fork and pin our version refusing to ever update the dependency ever again.

Please tell me where you are so I can move there immediately.

The joke (and probably the source of the realtors name) is from community:

https://youtu.be/gCktKQKXNWg

Next time try git streets-ahead origin

You do, you boo is very much not the sentiment of your meme - and if I’m asking my company for a 4k+ CAD laptop I want one with a sufficient number of ports. My complaints are primarily focused on the fact that Macs are simply poorly designed machines these days, in the PC market I can still get a laptop that hooks up to multiple monitors without needing to lug around multiple dongles.

Eh. Sublime and vagrant run on windows and the machines are better value than Macs.

I’ll stick to a windows host with Linux rather than feed Apple ridiculous money for dongles that do shit that should be built in. Multiple display port out and a built in ethernet cable or death - I actually need a laptop that’s portable.

I just checked and it looks like the latest MacBook Pro has a single hdmi port and three USB-C ports… so I’ve got my power cable, my mouse, my keyboard, and my ethernet cable dongle… already at negative one ports. Then I’ve got two monitors on display port to somehow cram into a single hdmi port - and apparently the processor only supports a single external monitor unless you get the MacBook Pro Pro or MacBook Pro Max… that’s impressively shit.

All for 4,649 CAD - I can buy so many more ports on PC with a ridiculous amount of power for 4.5 thousand. I don’t mind spending my employer’s money, but I want to spend it on shit that’s useful for me.

Bacteria respond to stimuli. Would you call them intelligent?

I’m not certain - probably not but I’m not certain where to draw the line. A cat is definitely intelligent, so is a cow - the fact that I don’t think bacteria is intelligent might be a question of scale or de deanthropomorphism… but intelligence probably only emerges in multicellular organisms.

I won’t fight you on that hill but I also think you’re putting human intelligence on a pedestal that it doesn’t really deserve. Intelligence is just responding to stimuli and while current AI can’t rival human intelligence it’s not inconceivable it could happen in the next two generations.

Real players elevate their belts so they can run their pipelines directly on the ground because, and I can’t express this strong enough, fuck headlift with a rusty spork.

AI is an extremely broad term - chatgpt and stable diffusion are absolutely within the big tent of AI… what they aren’t is an AGI.

If you’re talking about a service like copilot and your employer won’t buy a license for money reasons - run far and run fast.

My partner used to be a phone tech at a call center and when those folks refused to buy anything but cheap chairs (for the people sitting all day) it was a pretty clear sign that their employer didn’t know shit about efficiency.

The amount you as an employee cost your employer in payroll absolutely dwarfs any little productivity tool you could possibly want.

That all said - for ethical reasons - fuck chatbot AIs (ML for doing shit we did pre chatgpt is cool though).