ticho

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[–] ticho 4 points 4 days ago

Next thing they'll start rounding up people who wear glasses, like some African dictator a few decades ago.

[–] ticho 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm currently thinking something like this:

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If the root seeds are initially watered at different time, their growth timers should be offset, so that even three of them can grow into the same tile, as long as the drill cuts the new growth immediately.

The torches are there to block the wood growth, so that it can only grow on the three spots covered by the drills.

I'll see how it works. :)

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Wood Farm? (self.corekeeper)
submitted 3 weeks ago by ticho to c/corekeeper
 

Hi, I'm thinking of setting up an automated way to harvest the wood that grows out of a planted root seed.

I'm thinking having four auto-drillers pointed at the four sides of a planted root seed, so that anytime it grows, the wood will automatically be cut away.

But maybe there is a more effective way? I am not sure how exactly the wood growth works. Maybe you get more wood faster if you let the seed grow out a bit - perhaps every wood "tile" has a separate chance to push a new growth onto a random neighboring free tile?

[–] ticho 12 points 1 month ago

I can't believe It's not TheOnion.com.

[–] ticho 9 points 1 month ago

Elon Musk reminds me of a demented Elon Musk. :)

[–] ticho 31 points 1 month ago (4 children)

After leaving him, she can just make money by having someone ghost-write a "My Life With an Orange" book for her and selling that.

[–] ticho 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Can humans even have a real communist society? I suspect it would take a species without any individual self-preservation instinct, or individual greed, so that each member can fully serve the collective.

[–] ticho 5 points 1 month ago

Well, at least we got something.

[–] ticho 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And even that is debatable. Japanese surrender came shortly after a quick succession of several events - the first bomb at Hiroshima, Soviet Union declaring war and invading continental Japanese land, the second bomb at Nagasaki, allies completely obliterating Japanese navy, and preparing to invade their home islands, etc.

Many argue that Japan would surrender even without the two nuclear bombs.

[–] ticho 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yep, most of my non-tech friends just say "Ads? Oh yeah, I don't even notice them anymore, I got so used to them." whenever that topic pops up in a conversation.

[–] ticho 3 points 1 month ago

Enshittification actually does work, but only up to a point. Unfortunately, all the corporations have all the subtlety of a Sherman tank, so they always go all in on it.

[–] ticho 3 points 1 month ago

There is nebula.tv which works like that, but it lacks content. I am a subscriber, but I'm running out of interesting content to watch there.

OBviously there is network effect in play here. If Youtube switched to subs-only model tomorrow, they would have much wider content offer from the get-go.

[–] ticho 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Sure you can - the response was "let it spread, it hits blue states more than red states".

 

Hi, I was looking at FrancisJohn's video on geothermal power (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyoLDP2tUaI), and tried the trick for building a "spike" deep down into lava (shown off at around 4:30 mark in the video).

However, my dupes do not seem able to build through the closed horizontal airlock. Has this trick been patched out?

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