Wow, Factorio is approaching Full Time Job levels of detail and work required to keep everything running. Incredible game that I will never play, I feel I’m back at my job!
Never trust a system that seems to be working
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Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working
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It's done by some people intentionally to be offensive, and it's impossible to tell if someone doing it is doing it as an insult or out of ignorance. And, believe it or not, there's enough people out there that do it intentionally that assuming ignorance would be incorrect more often than it'd be correct
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Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working
#33I think "never" is too polarized, maybe "be skeptical of" is a better suggestion.
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Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working
#35If your code has side effects, it only ever seems to be working.
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> the newbie says "aww, why isn't it working?"
> the intermediate says "yay, it's working!"
> the expert goes "hmm, why is it working?"
I've also seen this as
My thing isn't working and I change X and now I get error J instead of error K, so now I have to change X back because it's still not working.
Where K is a "better" error than J, such as K = failed to connect and J is Server 500 error. With J you are at least talking to a webserver.
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Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working
#37What drama with the Factorio devs is he talking about at the end (and namesearchers?.. I don't get Twitter sometimes) I've never heard anyone say anything about the Factorio devs except praise their productivity and professionalism.
One dev said in one post that they like Uncle Bob. I think that’s it.
The Uncle Bob from clean code(er)?|architecture?
Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working
#38Just want to note that the novel noted in the first post, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, is a great read. I think I read it after seeing it recommended in Mary Robinette Kowal's Lady Astronaut series, but it's a nice balance of technical and science fiction with politics, almost like a condensed version of KSR's Mars Trilogy. It's mostly (not entirely) devoid of the more typical Heinlein sexism/objectification.
Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working
#39A more narrow lesson: this is why all SQL statements involving NULL are always false. > in any case, losing power means the transmitter stops transmitting. > and here's the fun part: your circuit which controls that inserter is set to insert "if [ICE] > and GETTING NO SIGNAL AT ALL counts the same to it as ICE=0. > 0 is < 8000.
In industrial automation, one old and popular analog signal scheme is the 4–20 mA current loop [1]. Why 4mA instead of 0mA? Because that way, you know 0mA specifically indicates a fault caused by a failed sensor, break in the line, etc.
Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working
#40What drama with the Factorio devs is he talking about at the end (and namesearchers?.. I don't get Twitter sometimes) I've never heard anyone say anything about the Factorio devs except praise their productivity and professionalism.
> "saying the name of the game uncensored is going to get namesearchers and I have a transflag in my name so guess what kind of response I'd immediately get?"
I believe kovarex made some anti-trans statements once, and gamers in general are prone to making abuse pile-ons, so it's a mitigation against that.