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  • Technically they don’t asymptotically go to zero. The minimum yield is the maximum of 20% or 20% of the original yield.

    So at worst, an oil field will produce 2 oil/sec, which can still be bumped up by speed modules/beacons as well as mining productivity.

    It’s not going to be enough alone for a large base, but I’d say it’s a lot better than almost useless.













  • JonC@programming.devto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonePlug rule
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    6 months ago

    Maybe let’s just say that you and I have different senses of humour and leave it at that.

    For me, the humour comes from the fact that I pretended not to understand the image and point out that there are no plugs in the image. It’s a bit of wordplay that relies on the fact that people sometimes call plug sockets plugs.




  • JonC@programming.devtoStar TrekOn the end of Discovery
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    7 months ago

    And at this point, the extended crew of the Discovery was thoroughly sidelined: Burnham’s personal relationships took priority over everything else.

    This is the part that I’ve never got on well with in Discovery.

    In TNG, it’s not a show about Picard, or Riker, or any of the other individuals. It’s a show about the crew. I’ve even seen it said that the actual star of the show is the ship.

    Whereas, with Disco, it’s a show about Michael Burnham and everyone else has a bit part. That always felt weird for a Star Trek show. I want to see how the crew works together to solve problems and overcome things with everyone on an equal footing regardless of their rank in the show.

    And I think that’s why there was such a warm reception to season 3 of Picard. It brought the crew back together. Picard alone isn’t satisfying enough. What we wanted was him as part of the crew.




  • Agree it’s an issue, but in my builds most of the complexity in telling how things fit together is because of chains of several combinators.

    It looks like the update is going to allow for much more complexity to be expressed in a smaller number of combinators, which should mitigate the issues somewhat.

    As a software dev, the biggest thing for me in this update is that it makes combinators more like how I think of things in terms of programming paradigms. When I first came across combinators, I tried to treat them like logic gates. Eventually, I realised they’re a different thing entirely.