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@Duga Week 1791: Computers gotten back, one. Friends met for lunch on Friday, two. Friends met yesterday for some wine and a movie, 3. @Duga's restored, one. Factorio PyBlock episodes recorded, a bunch. Work ongoing to migrate to AWS, a little bit. Minecraft plugins written, one. Biden inaugurations watched, one. Neck hurting, one. Current Covid-19 stats: 98834961 / 2122533 / 54557269. Covid-19 in Sweden: 547166 (+23680, 4.52%). Active Covid-19 cases worldwide: 42 155 159 (+1983074 in one week)

hzey

@SimonForsberg Number of dates? :(

@skiwi Nothing to report

It's been a quite good week still

Even work has been quite good

@SimonForsberg Hopefully you'll find your luck :)

Hopefully

Until then, at least two new versions of Factorio has been released. Always something.

@Vogel612 Decider combinators can now use "Anything" signal as output. Not sure if it's useful for our setups yet but you can read about it here: forums.factorio.com/28946

ohhh, I gotta take a look at that

When all else fails Factorio?

@SimonForsberg that will make provider stations so much easier

@Vogel612 How so? What problem would it solve?

@SimonForsberg makes the wiring easier for requesting multiple items with external additional loading

and it should also simplify wiring for concepts like "load more than the requested items"

Hmm, not sure I see the application at the moment, but I do think back to our geode provider on the seablock server which we had a bunch of problems with, so I assume it could probably be applied to that one

LTN requires 300 science, damn. And then the prerequisites... Circuit Network, 100. Logistics 2, 200. Railway, 75. Automated rail transportation, 75. So the bare minimum is 750 science packs. And then for the extra nice bonuses, Rail signals, 100. Visual Signals, 200. Another 300.

FML

Mumble mumble... We'll see if I record any episode today.

Soooooooo many things I need to automate

@Vogel612 Get out while you still can. This is... insane.

@SimonForsberg you can ignore signals if you only have a single train for the start

visual signals will only really become useful once you have multiple trains and more stations and until then you should be just fine

goddammit... it's 16:30 and I haven't even had breakfast.

BBIAB

@Vogel612 I know, that's why I listed Rail Signals and Visual Signals and extra nice bonuses.

@Vogel612 Wow...

well, I only got up at around 1PM, but I probably should've just eaten something then ...

I'm so glad I decided to buy eggs a few days ago ... Waiting for the first pancake to be finished :)

[Zomis/Games] renovate[bot] edited pull request #113: Configure Renovate

I don't understand how people to do it, guess well for me I get issues whenever my bowels are empty

it's ... a bit of a mess, usually I don't have such an erratic sleep and eating schedule..

the plague and stress just messes with my system pretty badly

sometimes I only notice I should eat something because I'm literally shaking from hypoglycemia

and some days it's even worse wrt. hydrating...

dang doesn't sound that great

last week there were a few days where I subsisted off two cups of coffee (with lots of sugar) and a single meal

my bowels/stomach would've gone crazy for before the end of the day

Eating late in the evening begins to take its toll on my weight though :/

as in: you're gaining?

yeaaah like last 3-4 years

but if I don't weigh myself I don't gain weight :D

(Right?)

@skiwi Not how it works

That's like saying that if you don't view your tab count you haven't opened more tabs

Wait.. you're onto something there

new seablock episode is out since two hours, by the way :)

Oh right, thanks for the reminder

Unrelated question: is it tacky to add a footnote to Bobby Tables in a Uni handin dealing with taint-based code analysis?

@Vogel612 Go for it!

@Vogel612 So you're aiming towards rails, but... have you considered the amount of steel you are going to need to build the rails?

@SimonForsberg I have.

one step at a time.

AFAICT with the new reciepe you only get a productivvity benefit for steel when you can start mixing ingots

Sure. I just think that the Steel processing is the step before rails ^^

Hmm... Really...? It doesn't affect the current yield of steel?

see, the ratio since the update is 4 iron plates to 1 steel plate

and it remains the same using iron ingots to steel ingots

that was where we gained a lot of efficiency on the server, because using plates required 8 iron plates for 1 steel plate

now the gain comes when you can start mixing manganese into the steel to use less steel ingots per unit of molten steel

and that's so much later in the tech tree that waiting for it is not worth it

but I will double check my numbers for that

@Vogel612 Are you sure it's the same...?

now that you're asking, I'm not

but I thought it was

Hmm... it might be... 24 iron ingots to 6 steel ingots maybe...

either way I researched metallurgy 2, so both rails and advanced steel smelting are directly available

but somehow the ingot approach seems better

in the long run it is

@Vogel612 I think you might want to use the silicon before the manganese

and it has faster crafting as well

@SimonForsberg yea, that's for sure

Some other comments I have of today's episode that I will not put on youtube:

When you copy-paste stuff and place inserters and the like, I believe circuits are not consumed from your inventory, they just magically appear on the ghost

Why do use two inserters per crystallizer? They are not that fast

I think you only need to research blue algae, you don't need to set it up for the geode processing

@SimonForsberg yea, I noticed

If you don't have any purified water production for a short while, and then start it up again, then it is naturally working "regularly" for a while

@SimonForsberg hmm ... I do have purified water production from hydrogen and oxygen

but it's not enough purified water for the washing and slurry filtering

@Vogel612 Yes, but that is a net loss

because the only source of hydrogen and oxygen is from the electrolyzers

yea, mostly because the ratios don't work out

For more comments, see youtube :)

basically the electrolysis loses some of the hydrogen

regarding the chests: I'm considering the chests and the silo for determining how much crushed ore is available

as such the scenario you describe should never happen

@Vogel612 but you don't have any condition on when to output things from the silo containing the crushed ore

correct.

so the scenario I am describing will happen

silo with crushed ore gets filled up

it won't

because the crushers won't get any raw ores to crush when the threshold is reached

Hmm... oh, right. You have the breakpoint there

Ok, true. Unless the mineralized water crystallizer goes crazy

which is unlikely

exactly

I'm reasonably sure that the condition for saphirite will never actually trip

because the iron and copper consumption is just that high

and I'm trying to move the stuffs around ASAP anyways, so it doesn't have to be that futureproof

Yeah ^^

It does looks like it's starting to be time to scale up the filtering, crystallizing and crushing (separately)

mumble mumble, should I record an episode today?

landfill first..

gonna need lots of steel for that

@Vogel612 Steel for landfill? :P

yeap

electrolyzer electrodes

Huh, there's been yet another Factorio update. This one will be very useful for you soon @Vogel612...

> Allowed to build blueprints anywhere regardless fog of war.

nice. that way I can finally just blueprint a city-block in full

Exactly

Hmm... I will need Solder to make rails, interesting

I'm tempted to record the next episode...

@SimonForsberg I did not

@SimonForsberg So you can knot?

@SimonForsberg No I can not knot

@SimonForsberg Not knot?

@SimonForsberg Who's there?

@SimonForsberg Pooh!

@SimonForsberg Pooh who?

@Vogel612 Why not? :)

@SimonForsberg it's late :D

@Vogel612 ... says the one who had breakfast at... when again? xD

see, I want to fix that :D

In other news, this is the northern town of Luleå in Sweden today

@Vogel612 Sounds like a good plan

@SimonForsberg just a tiny bit of snow, I see

Compared to @Marc-Andre's standards, probably

@SimonForsberg now that your server is back, what's your stance on setting up a new multiplayer factorio server?

@Vogel612 It can be done

K2 + SE ?

Or PyBlock? xD

K2 + SE sounds like the combination where more of the others can join in easily

Yup

I'm not sure how much time I would be spending there myself at the moment - considering my current PyBlock run and the coding things I work on, but if people want me to host a server I can host a server.

@IvenBach @brug I have no idea where I got this video from, maybe it was even from one of you, but either way you might find it interesting in comparing Swedish healthcare and US healthcare...

@SimonForsberg $12/day. Americans should let that sink in for hospitalization.

@SimonForsberg it's kind of the same for me, but it's just very different to be working on something with multiple people :)

@Vogel612 true that

TTGTB

sleep well :)

new episode recorded, scheduled and currently uploading