Joe Cecil

How to automate oil early game in Dyson Sphere Program

Because I found it confusing that there are no pipes: 1. Connect an oil extractor to an oil refinery with belts and a sorter.[1] 2. Use sorters with custom filters[2] to pull resources out and put them on belts. You'll end up with one belt for

Failure modes of concrete vs. abstract goals

I've been thinking about the failure modes of my Intend goals lately. Concrete goals tend to fail in one way. Abstract ones fail in another. For concrete goals, like "Give X talk at 20ZZ conference Y," the failure mode is that I lose connection with why

What does it mean to "show up with cookies"?

Thinking about a Jacob Falkovich tweet from June. He wrote: (June 19th) but, a note to the lurkers: I was welcomed not unconditionally, but rather given space to work my way up and invest and prove my value to the community over the years you're welcome when you

What to watch next, part 2/n

What am I looking for? Ideally something I haven't heard of before. Beyond that, not a police procedural or anything like it. I've seen enough of those to never want to watch anything remotely like them again — not for the foreseeable future, anyway. Other than that,

To plan or not to plan what to watch next?

My family does a weekly TV/movie night. Next time we're going to finish Inuyasha: The Final Act. That means we have to find something else to watch. Do we pick the next thing in advance, or do we pick it the night of? Picking it in advance

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