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Here's a video showing an application of the sample-and-hold circuit in requester chests controlled by circuit network. Note how infrequently the item requests in the “Controlled by circuit network” section of the “Requester chest” change even though factory recipes (which create the requests) sometimes flicker. #Factorio

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@DrorBedrack It's an old concept in analog circuitry, but basically it converts a fluctuating continuous signal into a stepwise function that is constant within each periodic step.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample_a

In #Factorio, often it's hard to properly see values in circuit networks that change every tick (~1/60 second). The sample-and-hold forces the signal to freeze for a minimum time so useful logic can be calculated, work performed, and associated feedback gathered within that period.

en.wikipedia.orgSample and hold - Wikipedia

#factorio last night: I didn't make it over to Aquilo but at least I left Vulcanus to hang out on Nauvis for a bit. Spotted a clog on Gleba that prevented shipping bioflux and managed to clear it before all my captive biter hives went wild. Did a bit of refactoring on Navuis. Noticed that my scrap processing on Fulgora was so effective I actually had a backup of holmium ore.

#Factorio:
"we decided to record the orchestrated parts with a real orchestra in a real studio. The difference, as you know, between a synthetic orchestra and a real one can be huge."

I've been super appreciating the soundtrack while playing — but I had no idea!

"Recording music with a traditional orchestra is a big challenge, [...] In the case of our soundtrack, 174 professionals are involved, without counting the Factorio team"

That's quite the extra mile :o

From factorio.com/blog/post/fff-406

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🔸 Rational thinker
🔸 Passionate about optimizing things
🔸 Ghost of the internet—always online, everywhere at once
🔸 20+ years in IT, Leading tech teams
🔸 Master’s in Computer Science
🔸 IT business owner, CTO/CIO/CISO
🔸 I used to play video games a lot, but now I just play casually. Currently into

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#factorio last night: Didn't get much done other than shipping a few legendary modules around. My mistake was accomplishing my short-term goals without making any new ones. Next up I think will be converting the Aquilo base to belts instead of bots, and scaling it up. It's just a slow janky foundation factory right now.

I also beat #FactorioSpaceAge
231h (including previous games)
4/5 - Loved it

I played a lot of Factorio including a mod I liked that revamped the core balance and recipes of the game + added cheaper but worse bots early game, etc. It added things but still mostly felt the same

I learned before buying the DLC that it started off as a mod (or multiple, not sure). So I thought the DLC would probably mostly just add QoL or alternative equipments and feel like a tacked on mod. Something I'd enjoy playing with as we launch our first rocket but wouldn't fundamentally change the experience.

Wow was I wrong.
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First, the DLC does not kick in until *after* you launched your first rocket:

Which kind of sucks tbh. I had already logged in enough hours (for me) in Factorio and I wanted to get to the new stuff asap.

Replaying through what felt like mostly the same again felt like a chore (Though thankfully making rockets is a lot more trivial than it used to be)
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When you do have a rocket though wow the DLC delivers:

> Each planet has a different puzzle to solve (which I don't want to spoil)

The tried and true methods of conquering your home world Nauvis are just plain not applicable to them. Each have a different and sometimes not even self sufficient tech tree to unravel and nurture

We were excited with solving each planet one at a time before checking out the next one and accidentally getting stranded a few times.

I even ended up playing in creative mode for the first time so I could blueprint a (largely insufficient but good enough) solution to the planet we least wanted to deal with

The biggest highlight for me was figuring out space station travel in a glorious series of catastrophic, wasteful and deadly but oh so instructive failures as if I was both engineer and passenger of Kerbal Space Program
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It felt like playing a proper, meaningful expansion, almost a series of delightful, small but interconnected prequels, well worth the time and money.

📢 #LiveStream Announcement: #Factorio Space Age: The Quest to Beat this Game!

Fulgora is a tricky place to set up, but I'm working on getting 250 Science per Minute going. The hard part is setting up the scrap mining yards; those islands don't have a lot of room on the. I'm in the process of building up the train network and soon I'll have the science setup and the mall going. After that, next stop: Gleba.

Come watch me on #Owncast!

https://owncast.zalasur.media

#factorio: Maybe this is an unpopular opinion with the community: I don't like city blocks. I'm not interested in building them. Designing and building them feels more like work than fun to me. Seeing everyone's massive city block maps make me feel like they're locking themselves into that design. I'd rather see some weird, janky clever designs than more city blocks.

#factorio last night: Tore down about half of Vulcanus base and rebuilt with legendary speed and productivity modules. Now I'm back to throwing stone away because I'm consuming a whole lot of molten iron and copper. The base keeps running out of carbon with my cargo ships occasionally dropping off accumulated carbon. Next to finish my Big Asteroid Grinder and have that one collect massive amounts of carbon for Vulcanus.