floquant

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[–] floquant 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Came to say this - either its going to use existing infrastructure owned by those companies, or it's going to completely suck. In neither case that's competition

[–] floquant 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah I guess the onboarding also felt somewhat disorienting to me too, it felt like everything was simpler than Factorio but it still didn't make a lot of sense - power generation for example, like do I really need to collect this much grass?

My advice is to try to forget what you learned in Factorio and be a new Engineer. You know, splitters now divide into 3, it's a brand new world x)

[–] floquant 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

You can start crafting foundations to build on a grid pretty early on in the game, but as a Factorio player I also tried building straight on the ground in my first save and that was pretty annoying. But then you realize that foundations are pretty cheap and you can just cover a huge area and basically ignore terrain.

To me scaling isn't strictly harder than in Factorio, it's just different. Being able to utilize the third dimension and build ad-hoc layers ( or spaghetti :p ) where needed is awesome, I like the additional "modularity"

[–] floquant 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Okay, but still, what is the question? The president and his administration do have to follow the law, without any doubt. That's just how governments work??

So, the only way this question makes sense to me is if it's meant as:

  • The president is a traitor (as in this is the definition of treason, not I don't like him politically), are you okay with that?
  • Is our judicial system so broken that the President has to act around it?
  • Were you sick when they explained how the government works in school?
[–] floquant 8 points 1 day ago

That's exactly how we got here

[–] floquant 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

That's a SIGINT ship isn't it?

[–] floquant 4 points 5 days ago

Hopefully. But I think companies are already starting to realise the value of having your bytes in a place you control

[–] floquant 14 points 6 days ago

Kudos.

That's it, that's the comment

[–] floquant 8 points 6 days ago

"The new world order exists, is evil and wants to control your life!"

"Anyway, here's our Project 2025, where we'll bring a new order to the world"

[–] floquant 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Infinite growth mentality vs remembering the customer as a human

[–] floquant 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

An agreeable position if those opinion pieces were written in good faith by a respectable journalist who knows what they're talking about. Honest opinions are never wrong.

But in today's news it's just a way to publish straight-up misinformation and propaganda, they can just abuse their position to just say whatever and people internalise it because, well, it's the news.

Journalists and news outlets used to depend upon a reputation of integrity and factuality built over the years. Now anyone can open up their "news" website, or be a politically motivated party with lots of resources, claim completely made-up stuff, and when those articles reveal themselves to be complete bullshit, nothing happens.

Also, the world seems to really have lost the conception of what is a fact vs what is an opinion, a deduction, a belief, and so on. Guess the nature of Internet communication doesn't help with that.

[–] floquant 11 points 1 week ago

Seriously - LLMs are much more adequate to do a CEO's job than an engineer's. Maybe the crazied scramble to push AI "features" into products is to distract customers, workers and shareholders from this fact?

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