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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
Never trust a system that seems to be working
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#45A 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.
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#46Also a good reminder why exceptions and optionals exist. Bonkers that "I didn't get a response" defaults to 0.
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#48One reply tweet notes "a complex system always operates in a failure state", but to find more discussion on this point it's worth noting that this is a restatement of: > "The Fundamental Failure-Mode Theorem (F.F.T.): complex systems usually operate in a failure mode." -- John Gall, General Systemantics (aka Systemantics , aka The Systems Bible ), 1977 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics > Searching for "funda…
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#49Wow, 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!
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