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What languages do you speak?
I coincidentally heard something about that today. Sadly in German but according to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGE8jzGZ7To
80% of people said they would continue working
80% of people thought others would not
We seem to expect worse of others than of ourselves. Even if it turns out to be that 40% ends up stopping to do anything remotely useful, it's at least worth trying and finding out what works and what doesn't imo. Having the right to choose how to live your life freely seems like an enormous benefit that a minority needn't ruin
We have a realistic minimum wage, but not everything that needs doing generates enough income to pay it. Taking care of your elderly mother as the simplest example but also firefighting apparently. It regularly blows my mind how much is done by volunteers. We could do so much more if you knew life's basics were going to be covered regardless of how you help society
You said most countries but then only mention the USA. May I surmise you're from the USA aka the world? :P
So I got curious, but it's also 7am and I need to sleep. I looked it up for my own country: we don't exactly have this
The Netherlands basically requires you to acknowledge that its laws apply to you (they do when you set foot here anyway) and that you'll fulfill the duties that come with citizenship.
When opening the included FAQ item "what duties?" it says two things: you abide by the laws (duh) and that you should consider that you're part of this society and that "you'll do what is needed to really be part of this society." Handwavey and not about choosing a side in a war or something, just focused on integration and community. Seems okay to me and distinct from blind allegiance. There's some more details but the FAQs all circle back to respecting the other citizens (no discrimination) and the like
Now I'm imagining a shell that looks iteratively through arguments to find where quotes would make total sense
$ ls
my victims.ods
$ wipe -f my victims.ods --thorough
So the shell would go like
wipe→ command name found, ok-f→ no file in the current directory starts with that, skipmy→ matches a file, keep in memory...my victims.ods→ full match, but missing quotes!- Prompt user:
Filename "my victims.ods" found without quotes. Choose:
[a]dd quotes this time
[A]lways add quotes (dangerous)
[n]o quotes today please
[N]ever offer adding quotes again
[t]ell me what could possibly go wrong when I choose to always add quotes
[P]unch the person who proposed this feature
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Asteroid spawn rate vs. ship speed
(lemmy.world)
The Factoriopedia lists one "/m" rate for each asteroid type at a given position on a space route, but you clearly have to kill more asteroids as you go faster so it cannot be "per minute" (Factorio uses /m to mean per minute elsewhere in the game). However, it cannot mean metre either because you travel at many kilometres per second: you'd get thousands of asteroids per second per type! Searching through the forums, Lemmy, and reddit, I didn't find an answer to this conundrum of space versus time
I've now gotten around to figuring out how the spawn rate varies :)
Method
- Let the ship fly at the indicated speed (V) for 10 minutes (plus margin, because the asteroids need a bit of time to move from spawn to the ship) between Solar System Edge and Shattered Planet
- Open the production stats window, set to 10 minutes, select the kills tab, and take a screenshot so that we can work with nonmoving values
- Calculate the ship's average position, namely: position at time of screenshot minus (5 minutes × V km/s)
- Look up the expected spawn rate at that position by linearly interpolating between the nearest values in the Factoriopedia (they are precise to 40 km, so we know the value at 0km, ..., 960km, 1000km, 1040km, etc.)
- Calculate the ratio between how many huge asteroids were killed per minute (per the kills graph) and how many huge asteroids should have spawned
- Plot that value on the graph as a percentage
Results
There seem to be two or three formulas in use: one for 10km/s and below (it appears as though this is in effect when your ship touches 10.xx km/s every few seconds, but that seems strange), one for a rapid but smooth transition (or maybe they blend the two other formulas together?), and then one for speeds above 15 km/s. The middle formula may also just be a blend of the other two, perhaps they average the result between 10 and 15 km/s (or apply a sigmoid or whatnot)
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The formula for slow speeds seems to spawn 1.1x (or 10%) more asteroids as the speed doubles from 5 to 10 km/s (not many data points in this range; value is very approximate)
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The formula for high speeds spawns about 1.5–1.7x more asteroids when you go 2x faster
The Factoriopedia value isn't distance-based (one could think "/m" is a shorthand for "/10km" or so), because then it would have been 1:1 linear: when you cover twice as much distance per unit of time, the number of kills would double. It also isn't time-based, because then the graph should have shown a flat line at 100%. It appears to be a derivative of your ship's speed (and perhaps other factors, such as its width)
Sorry for the sparse data above 50 km/s btw. I had spent a bunch of time and already pretty much gotten the answer when I realised that I could go back to an earlier save and do the same thing for an easier section of the route where the ship can safely fly faster. I collected just these two data points and, when that also looked close enough to linear, called it "good enough" =)
Discussion/limitations
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I wonder if the Factorio developers made Promethium much more common if you fly slow, to make it easier to collect for players that didn't build a great ship
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Not all asteroids that spawn get killed, so the graph must be wrong in absolute terms, i.e., the actual spawn rate is higher than what I calculate using the "killed" statistic. My railguns' range about covers as far as the huge asteroids spawn out and I see that only a few on the edges (faded out, only visible when hovering over them) make it down the length of the ship, so the absolute number is probably not super far off. In any case, my personal goal was to figure out the relative number, not the absolute one
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Yes, I know these speeds are rookie numbers compared to some of the things I see online. But it's all my own work :). I purposefully don't look at other designs in detail because the satisfaction of figuring it out is the point of the game for me. The "not invented here" syndrome is a problem for my workplace, not my gaming experience :D
Future work
A. I'm also curious how platform width affects the rates, but did not have time to design another ship for trying that out
B. Check that the results are identical on other routes
C. Check how it behaves at and below zero speed
Supplementary material
The Factoriopedia does not show the total spawn rate and so it's hard to see what the difficulty is of each segment towards Shattered Planet. I've added a few data points to what I needed for the above calculation anyway and now we have the answer to that as well:
Spreadsheet with raw data for your enjoyment: https://lucgommans.nl/p/factorio/space-age-asteroid-spawn-rate-factoriov2.0.48.ods
Feel free to share the graphs or infos around, consider it CC-BY-SA or a similar flavor if you like ^^
"I won't be able to use many computers today." See how much/many in this position would indicate a multiple of computer? As though you could only use a few. But you're not wanting to count the number of computers but the amount of time. In the original, "the" before "computer" indicates it's singular so that the original sentence is simply not grammatical. What you probably mean is: "I won't be able to use the computer much today."
(Edit: I think in older English you could also put "much" earlier in the sentence: "I won't much be able to use the computer today." Makes me think of "Tell me where is gandalf, for I much desire to speak with him." https://youtu.be/uE-1RPDqJAY?t=74)
For the second sentence, swap the verb and the noun. I don't know why. "It's incredible how the time flies!" Putting the verb before the time might fit in a question: "How flies the time? Like an arrow!"
What game are you changing exactly with this?
I just hope other EV manufacturers get the lost sales and this isn't pushing people to dino juice sippers
You can never have enough socks. Many a christmas goes by where again nobody gifts me a nice pair of socks. People always seem to think I am in need of more books to read!
(Hope I'm somewhat correctly recounting Dumbledore's answer in relation to the mirror of Erised)
Eyeing the replies, does not one other person here get results constantly flooded with content farms? They've gotten significantly worse
But then, I don't use Google so maybe this is still better than Google Search?
It started maybe three years ago, around the same time as LLMs became usable for this, but I'm pretty sure >50% are human-written still. Probably the LLM generates the structure (saves any time they'd have to spend coming up with plausible-sounding texts) and someone from a low-income country is contracted to make it look more legit
Of course, queries for topics that have a Wikipedia page get Wikipedia first, recipes get tons of big-name recipe sites, products get stores. But when there's no obvious market around a topic, 3~4 out of 5 results are content farms pretending to have useful information to show unwary visitors ads
(As an alternative, I still have to try Kagi properly. It seemed on par with DDG when I did a few searches last year, but then their payment processor refused me trying to load my account, support was unhelpful, and I've gotten sidetracked since)
So long as you enjoyed playing though :D
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lucg
joined 9 months ago
Idk if you're expecting me to background check your profile now but for English I have no recommendations