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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

Really? Huh, that's shitty.

Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working

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*they, this is why they hate their tweets being posted here

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Go around your office using "she" to refer to your male co-workers and see how long before someone gets cross.

Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working

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A 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.

A CHECK constraint treats NULL as true.

Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working

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Also a good reminder why exceptions and optionals exist. Bonkers that "I didn't get a response" defaults to 0.

It's not that "no response" defaults to 0, it's that in Factorio's circuit network, "no signal" and "signal with a value of 0" are exactly synonymous.

Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working

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One 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…

The older I get and the more systems I encounter, the more I'm convinced everything is in a state of failing. The question is only how long before it becomes noticable.

Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working

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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!

This is a mod that seems extremely boring and tedious. The base game is not like this.
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