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  • You only have so much input resource production per second flowing down the assembly lines and its consumption is a distributed spread across all your processes that use it. Each production process eats into your limited resource economy and lessens the amount of available input elsewhere both energy and input wise.

    If one process gets knocked out the others get a boost to resources. If enough of them get knocked out you stop consuming more than you produce input wise and it starts backing up. Thats at least one scenario.

    One benefit of stacking a lot of train cargo with chest and four way equal divider splitter lines is that it creates a great input buffer for production. train cargo and chest feeding assembly lines filled with items are like item version of solar battery banks.

    Its also what makes green arms so valuable for feeding assembly lines as they can uniquely stack a ton of items in one belt space especially with upgrade research


  • Son, son, son, you gotta step up your battery game man where’s your capacitance? I see you were trying to get it smoothed out in later cycles but you need way way MOAR. The battery bank must grow.

    All my solar factories are a never ending balancing act of expanding about a continents worth of panels and batteries as needed. Its not a bad idea to have the fuel burning steam engines on grid as backup while you get energy completely figured out.

    1. Automate panels + batteries+transformer poles

    2. set up a robot construction network grid then create two blueprint variants that fill up a big transformers poles worth of batteries or panels

    3. copy/paste over a vast area of desert thats we aquired from the natives through ‘advanced civil forfeiture techniques’.

    This will serve you well enough until your production energy demands scaling become so rediculous that pasting acres of solar on a continental level no longer becomes a viable solution. At that point you swallow your hippie pride and figure out how nuclear reactors work.










  • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world8 bit rule
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    2 months ago
    • Wish 1: “I wish that my third wish will retroactively become my first wish instead, but I retain all memories from every timeline.”

    • Wish 2: “I wish that every wish I’ve made after my first wish never happened, except for my memories of them.”

    • Wish 2b: Genie… i’ve come to bargain…" user proceeds to enforce temporal paradox type 1a ‘causal-loop’ until ‘negotiation leveraging favorable terms’ for infinite wishes without the monkeys paw BS is complete

    • Wish 3: “I wish to break this cycle and return to normal linear time, keeping all accumulated memories.”


  • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldtoFunny@sh.itjust.worksDog's mind vs cat's mind
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    2 months ago

    Its just base level pet tribalism for the sake of a cheap comic perpetuating a stereotype beaten to death. “my choice in non-human species as extended family is better than YOURS!”. All conscious entities have a unique combination of emotional understanding and relationship building over time, most higher thinking social animals understand the concept of affection and bonding.

    The difference is cats didnt have the same evoltionary pressures to essentially force affection and bonding drive on a species wide level. Some cats are cold and distant who at most will only allow a quick pet, some are warm and cuddly giving hugs. Thats personality for you.

    Meanwhile almost all dogs are compulsively clingy and protective its deeply engrained into pretty much all breeds unconscious instincts. Some are only friendly with known family not allowing strangers to bond but If you are family in their eyes youre pretty much set.

    The only real advantage dogs have over cats is they are good active tracking/ hunting partners with the right breed. Also bigger ones are lethal to their last breath which makes the neurotically scared and anxious people feel safe.

    You know what dog owners never want to talk about though? The fucking poop. Dogs poop everywhere in the back yard and just about every dog owner Ive ever known is too lazy to pick it up making their back yards pretty much undesirable for social activities or to have children run around playing. Also depending on the breed, the separation anxiety that causes them to go berserk and rip up trashcans and furniture.


  • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldApple
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    No, the 100-200$ Galaxy S mid range android phone with half decent RAM, screen size, actual specs and features that enable practical work, social communication, or entertainment consumption with a reasonable price to lifespan cycle ratio is.

    You know, something you can actually buy outright, calculate approximately how much value you got by how many years it lasted before breaking, and not get stuck into a never-ending cycle of slowly frog-boiling raising contract rates.

    So wheres the brand new retail sold 200$ Iphone budget entry for the plebs to access the IOS ecosystem on the cheap?

    Yeah, I thought so. its called market segregation and Apple knows the exact crowd they made a billion dollar industry pleasing.

    Any phone thats >500$ and doubley so for >1000$ are for the people who spend hundreds of dollars a month on contracts renewing them continuously every two years convinced its somehow a deal and don’t think twice about it. Different flavor of luxury good gotta get that tribalism social posturing in after all.

    If you were a true professional in an industry making complete use for videography, audio recording and editing, music production, I could maybe see it.

    But lets be real, thats the statistical outlier for apple users you know exactly what 99% of people do with their phones. Check emails, shit posting on the internet, watch youtube, MAYBE record a quick video or picture without knowing how to manually balance anything or even knowing what an ISO is.


  • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldApple
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    The Iphone is a luxury commodity and like all luxury commodities it marketed for people with little sense and lots of money who are easily separated from the ladder with shiny trinkets. Before the Iphone there was the Rolex and the super-secret clothing designer brands only 1%er yuppies think they know about. Before that people ground up egyptian mummies for medicine/taste and bought expensive jar of nutmeg spice from halfway across the world imported via boat. These kind of people were always going to spend 2000$ on trinkets whether its a 2000$ pocket computer or a 800$ wrist watch is a difference in taste. The real question is why humanity can’t shed this consumerist prone archetype what is it about people constantly wanting new shiny things that they don’t need and for which the money can go to a better place? Why do modern consumerist not have the ability to tell corporations to fuck off? Why is it that after a quarter century of time to get used to the concept of a computer and an email people tantrum and shriek when their tappy button gets moved 2 inches to the left without knowing how to fix it? Why do we consider this an acceptable baseline for human intelligence and emotional volatility?








  • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldHow long does a decent USB stick last?
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    The secret nerd technique they don’t want you to know is to get a big usb stick housing for a proper m.2 SSD stick. Form wise its a slightly chunkier usb stick. Inside is a proper drive you can buy from a reputable source with terrabytes of storage and 3.0 speeds. A reputable SSD drive will easily last a decade.

    As far as store bought regular old sandisk will last a long long time.