Notices by JP (jplebreton@mastodon.social)

Does anyone know the concrete technical reason(s) that LLM website scrapers have been so much nastier to deal with than the ones used by major search engines? Like do these people just not know how to write a scraper that won't DDOS (or equivalent effect) a server? Are they trying to get the data faster or more thoroughly than other scrapers? Do they just not care? Like obviously they don't care but I can't tell if that's the main reason they're so horrible or some more technical point.

@clarity it's the second industrial revolution which is why its impact in studies so far is negligible and they have to beg people to see how anything it does is useful. (but also yes even if it were, disregarding the social impacts is dangerously wrong)

asbestos critics are so angry and reactionary, they really need to try asbestos themselves and educate themselves on the current state of asbestos - it's made a lot of progress in the last year! - before making me feel b- err, criticizing it.

@dosnostalgic mfw i'm too tired to keep up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aphnsVAlNwc

i loaded up my savegame from last year's closed beta for the first time since then, and had a kind of magical moment.
i spawned at the hub without any of my stuff, and noticed a multiplayer marker with my name on the map. i headed towards it, climbing the tall cliffs along the southern border of the rocky desert and found... me, sitting cross-legged, sipping coffee peacefully, in the last place i'd saved back in May of last year.
(i think the game considers my EGS account a different "person".)

one of the achievements 1.0 added was "reached the world height maximum", and i remember working out how to build a player-launcher a while back. worked like a charm. not a bad way to get an overview of the world.

getting back into Satisfactory after kinda burning out on it last year by playing it too much right after it hit 1.0. yesterday set up a nice Fused Modular Frame operation, building up to a fully automated Nuclear Pasta factory - but i need to solve my power shortage first...

Finished Phase 5 and rolled credits last night, though of course with a game like this it doesn't mean you're "done" with it.
Leaned pretty hard on simple single rail push-pull trains towards the end. The Nuclear Pasta operation I made last month ended up being most of the work to getting a teleporter setup going, which definitely contributes to the "systems galaxy brain" feeling of phase 5 strategy and planning.
Pretty good game.
I guess I *could* get an Alien Power Matrix operation going...

Finished off my fully automated Nuclear Pasta (3/minute) setup over the weekend, and it was a good excuse to get past my low confidence at building large multi-track train lines. Computers from Lake Forest, aluminum from Pink Bamboo Fields, Heavy Modular Frames from way out in the Abyss Cliffs, all brought to the East Dune Forest for final assembly. I'm still a little shaky on ideal use of block signals vs path signals, but I know how to make the trains go choo choo everywhere now.

Past few weeks' Satisfactory-ing have focused on getting a first nuclear power setup going, using the uranium deposit on the desert plateau. I wanted this operation to be completely self-sufficient, but it's far from most of the resources needed to support it so it required belting stuff up steep cliffs from various places, and using [secret phase 5 magic] to create an aluminum operation where it has no business being. Still holding to my strict "don't disturb trees or foliage" building style.

this game definitely creates endless malcolm-in-the-middle "what does it *look* like i'm doing?" gag scenarios: building a nuclear plant on the desert plateau means, ultimately, mining SAM on this far north edge of the world, and i was apparently in the "make it look nice" frame of mind for this adorable lil outpost of 5 constructors.

✅ 4/minute Ballistic Warp Drive
✅ the coveted 1000-ticket Golden Nut
✅ 106/106 Somersloops and 298/298 Mercer Spheres found
Okay, I think I'm "done" with this game for the time being - the 1.0 save here at least.
The BWD really is the most complex item in the game, the final assembly pulls together operations over a good half to 2/3 of the world. And then a final world tour to collect the last of the spheres while the tickets pile up.
Full Satisfaction attained.

1.1's new photo mode is very cool. In addition to the obligatory filters, you can set start and end camera move points with tunable timing and easing functions. I've already seen a couple really cool videos of people showing off their builds with sweeping fly-through shots set to music.

Planning out the final build of my 1.0 save, fully automated Ballistic Warp Drive @ 2/minute.
Thanks to my Radio Control Unit and Nuclear Pasta setups, I've already done the hardest parts, what remains is ~80% logistics challenge. The new-for-1.1 curved mode for belts lets me move SAM through the big desert cavern in a much cooler-looking way.

✅ 3/minute Ficsonium power setup
✅ a lifetime's supply of Synthetic Power Shards
✅ an Alien Power Amplifier + Matrix setup, providing a total of >90GW
Nearing the end of accomplishing everything I wanted to here - all that's left is to fully automate Ballistic Warp Drives, to get enough tickets to buy the Golden Nut.

I went back to my old "creative mode" save to look at the first real building-like thing I'd made, two summers ago, that became the basis for the concrete and glass style I've used since, as a point of comparison with the last thing I built for this 1.0 save (a rather lazy teetering HMF factory to cool down from the big project).
One way to think of how the player creates & relates to building in this game might be the old painting concept of the "architectural fantasy" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capriccio_(art)

Anecdotally, general state of "marking form fields as required regardless of whether or not they need to be" literacy is really bad. Think carefully for a moment and try to imagine someone who genuinely *doesn't* have anything to put in that field - are they screwed? Even if not, are you making their day a little worse by forcing them to put something there?

@clarity also all implementations of communism are the same everywhere across all time. much like linux

reading any political discussion happening in a github issue thread

multiple waymos have been torched in LA partly because it's a car that is self-evidently not owned by an individual but a massive surveillance corporation, and relays everything its cameras record to the same cops who initiated the riots. anyone pearl-clutching over that specifically is showing their true colors.