Deestan

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by Deestan 6y ago
Factorio: 1900 hours, DSP: 20 hours DSP is good. It is definitely in the same vein as Factorio, but the challenges are different and it has a very cool flavor / story. DSP is Early Access and expected to develop much further. The cu
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by Deestan 6y ago
They had the main campaign like that for a while, but found that losing your build between missions didn't gel with how the game was supposed to be approached. https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-241
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by Deestan 6y ago
Quite a few of these are of the form: "Wayland doesn't X!" "Actually, it's on purpose or X that is not working on Wayland because [reason]." Sure but that doesn't make it work .
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by Deestan 6y ago
It's not an absolute. The more work it is to find the current hiding hole, the harder it's going to be for them to recruit and groom more terrorists from the populace.
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by Deestan 6y ago
"Not hosting baseless nutjob conspiracy allegations" is easy to differentiate from your regular "political opinion". Your equivalence is false.
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by Deestan 6y ago
I have not seen anyone make unqualified predictions of "disaster in 2-3 weeks". It is easy to imagine you are referring to tabloids exaggerating claims to make them clickbaity ("Y2K will cause problems in traffic systems&quot
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by Deestan 6y ago
Neutrinos: https://what-if.xkcd.com/73/ Waste: https://www.iaea.org/topics/energy/fusion/faqs
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by Deestan 6y ago
She's from Norway. We still have a culture of keeping workplaces ethical. Trust me, this is not a black mark in any employment situation apart from really really terrible ones.
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by Deestan 6y ago
I'd like to defend this sentiment. I get the negative reactions to this, I really do. All communities - fan clubs, beer aficionados, gamers, book enthusiasts - have groups of gatekeepers that try to separate the dirty filthy unworthy c
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by Deestan 6y ago
> IMO, playing Factorio will not make you a better software engineer. I'm of the opposite mind: Factorio helps reinforce good habits, and practice methodical planning and thinking about hacks, tradeoffs and technical debt.
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by Deestan 6y ago
The comparison isn't completely valid. Satisfactory is not yet released, and still in Early Access. Factorio was in EA and enjoyable by 2016. The Factorio team has slowly grown to its current size - for a few years it was just one or t
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by Deestan 6y ago
Note that while they are both fun and share many features like logistic systems and machines, they are wildly different in approach. Oxygen Not Included is an inherently unstable system, and it's a frantic race to juggle all the spinni
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by Deestan 6y ago
> Then there were the speed runners who launch the rocket in a few hours. It's even below 2 hours now: https://www.speedrun.com/factorio#Any
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by Deestan 6y ago
We do take-home, and tell the candidate to not use more than 4 hours on it and deliver it any time during the next week (this is to respect their time). The testing system logs their activity, so if someone decides to spend two days on it,
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by Deestan 6y ago
They might give you a call now, as the site just died from traffic.
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by Deestan 6y ago
I was already speedrunning bread due to parental leave. Got sourdough down to <10 minutes active labor including prep and cleanup. Now my project is a 1000 science per minute factory in Factorio. I'm 100 or so hours in. It is a game
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by Deestan 7y ago
Just a tip for anyone wanting to write Norwegian words. O and Ø are different letters. You don't make a word more Norwegian by adding slashes over random Os. A coumparisoun would be to change "o" to "ou" tou make
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by Deestan 7y ago
http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/
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by Deestan 7y ago
Assuming you adjust your diet instead of just subtracting meat (increase broccoli/beans/lentils/spinach for iron, etc), are there really any downsides? We've had vegetarians for a thousands of years, and I am not aware
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by Deestan 7y ago
Do you mean that you do not consider bugs in your software to be your job to fix?
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by Deestan 7y ago
> You ruled out everything we know/have tried, though. What is your idea? I am not sure I understand. I ruled out only desperate random acts of charity. Surely other tried-and-tested working alternatives are well-known? In other d
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by Deestan 7y ago
People should not have to live or die depending repeated random acts of kindness from strangers. So many American feel-good news stories are utterly dystopian, where some person completely fucked dry by the government or corporate interes
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by Deestan 7y ago
"Harassing" people for speeding is one of the things we have the police for.
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by Deestan 8y ago
So given the requirement to access passwords across multiple devices, what alternatives exist that stand up to similar scrutiny? Ease-of-use and "looks pleasant" be damned, just security-wise. https://www.xkcd.com/
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by Deestan 8y ago
> Even if the data is encrypted, someone can get access to it and work on decrypting it offline. That fear is irrational. While you go on to describe one reason for that, another is that cracking a solid encryption isn't something p
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by Deestan 8y ago
The F-16 requires specifically trained pilots to fly safely. The Boeing in question was flown by pilots who were not trained for or even made aware of significant modifications to the plane's behavior. A training wheel on a motorbike i
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by Deestan 8y ago
Organic produce uses tons of pesticides some of which are really nasty (but hey it's "natural" copper sulfate), so that's not a solution to anything.
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by Deestan 8y ago
> So many comments here are really depressing and lack a sense of adventure and romance. (Since you are not replying to any specific such posts, I assume you are referring to those who point out that this was expected because Mars One wa
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by Deestan 8y ago
> IF the quality is the same That's the thing. It isn't. Every franchise, big or small, has wildly different quality of ingredients and preparation (and even send the correct damn drink and remember the dip) among outlets, an
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by Deestan 8y ago
Is a safe 9-5 job inherently "meaningless" now? I am good at software development. I help a company with software development 8 hours per day and they pay me for my time. They take care of hardware, air condition, desk space, so

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