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00:15 Xiong VanessaE you're confusing me. Before your recent fix we discussed this at length. My concern involved source but we fell into this other thing.
00:16 VanessaE what's confusing
00:17 VanessaE [12-17 05:33] <Xiong> Um... this is exactly as it was in the previous version. I only replaced the indicated file. Please say if the hydro fix spans other files.
00:17 VanessaE [12-17 14:53] <VanessaE> Xiong: only the one file is replaced, and the behavior is exactly as intende
00:17 VanessaE +d
00:18 Xiong So... I said LV mills had always been interested in a neighborhood of 8 nodes (at y and y-1). You said by the time you were done, the MV mill would respect only 4 nodes, all at y only.
00:18 VanessaE you're wrong
00:19 Xiong Well no I can't be wrong all the time.
00:20 VanessaE LV water mill always used the four adjacent nodes, since my flowing change went in like 2 years ago.  MV has since it was added some days ago.  LV only cared about flowing water.  MV allowed standing water due to a bug.
00:20 Xiong You told me I was wring then... now you're telling me I'm wrong about that. Either I was right then or I'm right now.
00:20 Xiong 8.
00:20 VanessaE four.
00:20 VanessaE X+/-, Z+/-.  not the corners.
00:20 Xiong I just reported results.
00:21 Xiong Actual results, that happened. I don't like to be called a liar.
00:21 VanessaE dude, look at the code.  https://github.com/minetest-mods/technic/blob/master/technic/machines/LV/water_mill.lua#L36
00:22 VanessaE that table is unchanged since *checks "Blame"*...since 5 years ago.
00:22 Xiong I am not an expert or even competent on mt code... never made that claim.
00:23 Xiong I'm not even certain what you're disputing. You say, flatly, I'm wrong. I can't be wrong about everything. I see what I see, I can document it.
00:24 VanessaE " I said LV mills had always been interested in a neighborhood of 8 nodes (at y and y-1)."  this part is wrong.
00:25 Xiong Well, sorry. Maybe changed 5 years ago. But I last played over 5 years ago. In any case, irrelevant. Today we're concerned about MV hydro. Yes?
00:26 VanessaE yes.  and it now works like the LV one.  four x/Z adjacent flowing water nodes.  nothing above or below.
00:26 Xiong It is true that I said such a thing.
00:26 VanessaE I think what you're seeing is the difference between horizontal and vertical flow.
00:29 VanessaE (MT engine uses different param2 ranges for same, but it still behaves in a useful manner)
00:29 Xiong Look, can we define this narrowly? By design of the MV mill, if it is surrounded by n nodes (where n is either 3 or 4, another point) of flowing water AND otherwise placed flat on level stone... should output be 100%?
00:30 VanessaE no
00:30 VanessaE only if the water's flowing vertically.  if it's horizontal flow, at best you'll get something like 64% capacity
00:31 Xiong Good. That's what I've been saying all along. Some  nodes at y-1 must be unobstructed.
00:31 VanessaE otoh:  place a water source directly above.  when the vertical flow reaches the X/Z sides, it'll hit 100%, even if only 3 sides work.
00:32 VanessaE so the turbine doesn't care what's at y-1, but the *engine* does because that alters the water's path, turning it into horizontal flow
00:32 Xiong Really want to avoid the 3 == 4 part, okay.
00:33 VanessaE it's not 3 == 4.  it's "3 is enough to hit the output limit, thus 4 is simply redundant".
00:33 Xiong Right. The engine. But in world I don't see an engine. I see a block and I'm trying to make it work. Everything I say is from actual experience. All questions are so based.
00:34 Xiong Really want to avoid the 3 == 4 part, okay. I've seen it, seen the code, understand it. Also gotten bad advice. Nonissue.
00:35 VanessaE in-world you see the engine, even if it looks like nodes to you.  anyway afaik a mod can't really do much to change how flowing water changes paths around a solid object.
00:36 Xiong Yah. But... as I keep saying... I can't be wrong all the time. The thing does do what I say it does... even if it's innocent and a god or demon or Trump is to blame.
00:37 Xiong I'm happy to have been right before. I wish we hadn't spent so much time on it.
00:38 VanessaE *grumble*
00:38 VanessaE the problem is you keep mixing-up engine behavior with mod behavior
00:39 Xiong For the record: To get max output from a watermill, LV or MV, ensure three pairs of nodes adjacent to mill faces are clear... each at y and y-1 level.
00:39 VanessaE yes.
00:39 Xiong Do not care. They are in practice inextricable.
00:40 VanessaE or:  any combination of clear and obstructed vertical paths that results in a large enough "water_flow" count.
00:40 MinetestBot [git] zeuner -> minetest/minetest: Lua_api.txt: Document inventory sending behaviour (#7720) 7a4d4bc https://git.io/fpxik (2018-12-18T00:38:39Z)
00:40 Xiong My life is exactly the same... whether physics is broken or physics is perfect but Devil Trump is evilly unscrambling my eggs.
00:41 Xiong I only care about actual results. I thought we'd been talking at cross-purposes
00:43 Xiong To get max output from a watermill, LV or MV, ensure three pairs of nodes adjacent to mill faces are clear... each at y and y-1 level. There may be alternate neighborhoods equally effective but if all nodes at y-1 are blocked by solid objects this may be difficult.
00:44 VanessaE I suppose to the end user, engine and mod may as well be one, but from a modder's standpoint, they're most definitely not, and often are at odds with one another.  that MV fix I put in, for example?  aside from it being to restrict the MV turbine to flowing rather than standing water, also gets around an engine oddity that sets a water source to param2=240 when it fills in an empty space -- as opposed to param2 = 0
00:44 VanessaE for water that was created at mapgen time.
00:45 Xiong This is a practical statement of how the devices behave in play, not an analysis of code, for which I'm unqualified.
00:46 VanessaE said oddity is why you were seeing 100% power without any water flow, because you most likely caused some infinite-water-fill-in during your build.
00:49 Xiong VanessaE I don't think you're a bad person; I think you're remarkably hardworking and often helpful. And I suffer from an unusual set of shortcomings... but also enjoy rare strengths. I am not a fool. Please be kind enough not to call me wrong when I make a statement. I may be so... but I labor to avoid this. It's more likely I have expressed a true statement in unfamiliar language.
00:49 VanessaE sorry for the confusion.
00:51 Xiong The watermills... both if them... did and do perform as I said they did... and always have. For the player, this matters. I play mt. That's important to me.
00:52 Xiong I'm glad you fixed the thing that allowed MV mills to work in source... very odd. I have that version installed.
00:52 VanessaE ok, so we're on the same page now.
00:54 Xiong I suspect the LV mills are also working in source. But... I have already demolished my LV plant and crafted MV. And a sane man will not fool with those again... MV so much better.
00:54 VanessaE eh, I have my reservations about that
00:55 VanessaE for a while there, LV turbines had a nice high output, max of some 1300 EU.
00:55 Xiong Also kudos for fix of ridiculous OP LV mills. I was getting 1575 W out of just one.
00:55 VanessaE now they're just 180, in favor of MV being the high-output ones.
00:56 Xiong Was always advertised as 180. 1575 was a bug.
00:56 VanessaE heh, don't credit me for that, I'm the one that made them do 1575 EU (eh, 1300, 1500, whatever) :)
00:56 VanessaE nonono
00:56 VanessaE 1575 wasn't a bug.  it was intentional.
00:56 VanessaE but wherever it's written that they should be 180, THAT was the bug, for as long as they were doing 1575
00:56 Xiong Well, the difference between feature and bug is marketing.
00:59 VanessaE see, I have a LV hydro plant on one of my servers.  between its total size, the number of turbines, and amount of head, and comparing against real world hydro installations, and then comparing those to in-game and real-world nuke plants, somewhere over 1000 EU per turbine made sense.  1575 is what I and...someone else? I can't remember who...  settled on
01:00 Xiong I read a forum post by a guy, really steamed. Using mt to teach his son the value of hard work. He was irate that cheap powerful hydro made his son lazy and unwilling to dig uranium.
01:01 VanessaE a secondary goal was to make the one on my server output about half a million EU, about half what a nuke plant occupying the same volume would produce.
01:01 Xiong I heed and sometimes make arguments based on reality but this is treading on thin ice.
01:02 VanessaE (in the end, we ended up with some 450 kEU.  idk how much it does now, it has not been upgraded to MV)
01:03 Xiong I am content with the MV mill now. I argue from gameplay balance. The price is fair for the output.
01:05 VanessaE I'm not :(  that hydro station probably has a total output of like, 50 kEU now :(
01:05 VanessaE mind you
01:06 VanessaE this is in comparison/in cooperation with a server-wide public power grid (all HV) that has a total installed capacity of some 15 MEU
01:06 VanessaE (and a load of only some 3 or 4 MEU :P )
01:07 Xiong A small LV hydro plant of 4 to 6 mills is accessible early in game and provides enough power to bring mire ambitious plans within reach.
01:07 Xiong Why do you have a public grid?
01:07 VanessaE same reason as in real life, actually
01:08 VanessaE lots of places scattered around the map that use power.  a public grid makes sense there
01:08 VanessaE (plus it has a certain "we're serious about this city" quality)
01:08 Xiong IRL we feed the drones so they don't riot.
01:08 VanessaE :P
01:09 VanessaE that server (which most of refer to as VE-Survival, and which runs the full dreambuilder package) is sort of the acid test for technic, mesecons, and pipeworks performance.
01:10 VanessaE because of just how extensively those mods are used
01:10 Xiong I mean, we hand every newborn a pickup truck and a plasma teevee. Life has no challenge. I like to enter the world and start punching trees, no help.
01:10 VanessaE Sounds like you'd do well on Skyblock :P
01:10 VanessaE that's as hardcore as it gets
01:11 Xiong You probably see why I'm content singleplayer.
01:11 VanessaE try it sometime.
01:11 VanessaE once that irrlicht bug goes away./
01:13 Xiong Truth is, that bug a blessing. I always played on servers back when. Now I have my own world... no neighbors.
01:15 Xiong Back then, my idea of a server was random spawn. So no two players should ever meet... except by mutual design... but with chat restricted by distance so that tough too. No protection.
01:16 Xiong Trouble with random spawn on public server is the world file bloats.
01:16 VanessaE most servers, as far as I know, use the common spawn with a surrounding city paradigm
01:17 Xiong Which I detest.
01:17 VanessaE why?  it works pretty well aside from the occasional "where can I build?" requests.
01:18 Xiong Why play a game to be born into developed society? I got that deal in life.
01:18 VanessaE cooperative play?
01:18 VanessaE I mean, why do people play Second Life, or whatever the current hawtness is?
01:19 Xiong Dunno. Why do people join the Face, or go to discos?
01:19 VanessaE *shrug*  to each their own.
01:21 Xiong I dislike nearly everything about living on a planet with billions of humans. Dental care is supposed to be one of the perks of society, not easy to manage alone. But I can't afford it.
01:23 VanessaE eh..
01:23 VanessaE don't get me started on that.
01:23 Xiong My most serious grievance is real title, the ownership of land you're not using yourself. So there is essentially no place I am permitted to go and stay and build a home, work as I please. All that is unclaimed is utter desert.
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01:25 Xiong Was I born into serfdom? This is why I live playing mt. Because I can go punch trees with my bare hand, pick a spot I like, and build what I am personally able
01:26 Xiong Hell. Here in California, even the desert is taken.
01:28 * VanessaE shrugs
01:31 Xiong I'm 59. I have worked and paid rent since I was 16. All the excess product of my labor has gone to feed other men... who did nothing for it. Now I am at the end of my productive time and have nothing. My story is not unique nor special... not even unusual. But it is shite.
01:31 * VanessaE growls loudly
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01:32 VanessaE a wile est31 appears!
01:32 VanessaE :)
01:32 VanessaE wild*
01:33 Xiong I decided long ago not to waste anger on reality. But I do struggle as best I can. Or I have, these last years. Now I'm just tired.
01:35 Xiong Sorry... not to weep and moan. But this illuminates my reasons for playing mt. It's an escape. Why escape from pan to fire? No. I'll singleplayer, thanks.
01:35 est31 VanessaE: hi
01:36 VanessaE Xiong: for the record, I live on disability, barely able to make ends meet, and I turn 45 in a couple months.
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01:37 Xiong Hi est31. I gather from VE's invocation you aren't too happy either. Let us not wallow. I'm here to iron out wrinkles in my game.
01:37 VanessaE (most of my material possessions were acquired while my husband still walked this earth.  when something breaks down, it's difficult for me to replace it)
01:37 VanessaE est31 is a unique individual :)
01:38 Xiong VanessaE not sure what to say. Congratulations on putting your time to productive use?
01:38 VanessaE "a wild est31 appears" because he doesn't chat in here much :)
01:38 est31 not any more at least
01:38 Xiong We are all unique.
01:38 est31 Xiong: we are indeed
01:38 est31 I'd been heavily playing minetest once
01:38 VanessaE Xiong: translation:  you shouldn't compare your situation to serfdom or such things.
01:38 est31 even became dev
01:38 Xiong But if everyone is special... nobody is special.
01:38 VanessaE and minetest still has a grip on you ;Z)
01:38 VanessaE ;)
01:39 est31 indeed
01:42 VanessaE Xiong: if "everyone is special", then by definition, everyone must have something truly unique about them.  that renders the "then no one is special" clause invalid.
01:42 Xiong Why not? When did I ever have the freedom promised? The American Dream? 40 acres and a mule? Serfdom, wage slavery, call it what you like. I respect the free market; all I've ever wanted to do is participate in one. But the game is rigged. The winners were born long ago. Upward mobility is a joke... or con.
01:42 VanessaE the game is rigged because people keep voting trash into office.
01:44 Xiong Well yes that's the trouble. Voting doesn't work because money can easily sway the mass mind.
01:45 VanessaE that's not as true as it once was, I think the midterms proved that.
01:45 Xiong I have long advocated... er, another system of government... which lecture I shall omit.
01:46 VanessaE nothing wrong with a republic that wouldn't also be wrong with any other governing model, because human nature.
01:46 Xiong When I see national health, land reform, basic income, and truly harsh penalties exacted for rich felons... I shall believe.
01:46 VanessaE what's wrong is when people feel they have no say in their future, thus no apparent reason to advocate for a better future, or to vote, or whatever
01:47 Xiong You tempt me. I have indeed worked out a foolproof constitution. You might not like it.
01:48 VanessaE you'd be surprised.
01:48 VanessaE but, not here.
01:48 VanessaE maybe some other time.
01:49 VanessaE I'm one of those bleeding-heart, its-almost-time-to-overhaul-the-constitution, knock-down-drag-out liberals Republican congressman want you to be afraid of :P
01:49 Xiong In the end, the only perfect solution to the social bind is colonization. This used to be obvious. Elon Musk, despite his blatant shortcomings, is our current MVP. Because he has both the power and the commitment to open a frontier.
01:50 VanessaE meh, Musk's plan is failure before it starts
01:50 VanessaE (if you mean Mars)
01:51 Xiong The ultimate guarantee of freedom is the ability to go live apart from the people you can't stand... or can't stand you.
01:51 Xiong Mars is just the first step. Mars now, the stars tomorrow.
01:52 VanessaE Mars won't happen.
01:52 VanessaE not when you're talking about charging hundreds of thousands of bucks per person just to get 150km above Earth.
01:52 Xiong That's what they said about America.
01:53 VanessaE we have the tech, the manpower, and enough people that want to go
01:53 VanessaE we also have too much greed, such that only the rich can go.
01:54 est31 Musk's plan is to make a one way ticket to mars cost about 100 k USD
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01:54 est31 that is expensive, but affordable
01:54 VanessaE unaffordable to most people.
01:54 est31 true
01:55 VanessaE thing is,
01:55 est31 a trip to america was unaffordable for most people as well though
01:55 Xiong No sane person would sail off the map, risking death just to get here, to inhabit a savage waste. That is exactly the prevailing opinion of the time. As recently as the 1800s, Americans were viewed as fools, simply for living here.
01:55 VanessaE the people who would be most suitable or desirous of such a trip are the ones who can least afford it.
01:55 rubenwardy hey est31
01:55 est31 hi there rubenwardy
01:55 rubenwardy Xiong: the world size bloat could be mitigated by only saving blocks which have been modified
01:56 rubenwardy or just using a 1TB hard drive
01:56 rubenwardy although - hdds are slower
01:56 Xiong That'll change too. Many immigrants to the New World have been penniless, even convicts.
01:56 VanessaE it's like his car.  G*d knows I want a nice Model 3 or Model S, but there's no way in hell I'll ever afford one (Unless I hit the lotter)
01:56 Cornelia I've seen terabyte SSDs :p
01:56 VanessaE (lottery*)
01:56 est31 Cornelia: and they are cheap these days
01:57 est31 like 150 EUR
01:57 rubenwardy oh really
01:57 rubenwardy thought they'd be more expensive
01:57 VanessaE but, I'm the sort of person who would benefit the most from an EV (being that I drive an old gas guzzler)
01:57 rubenwardy what about on VPSes and dedis?
01:57 est31 rubenwardy: https://www.mindfactory.de/product_info.php/1000GB-Samsung-860-Evo-2-5Zoll--6-4cm--SATA-6Gb-s-3D-NAND-TLC--MZ-76E1T_1225524.html
01:57 VanessaE dedi will get you around 600GB SSD (RAID, yet) for under $50/mo
01:57 rubenwardy VanessaE: he aims for the rich people, because they will pay out of their arses which helps with funding research
01:58 VanessaE like the one daconcepts.com runson
01:58 rubenwardy hopefully the tech will trickle down
01:58 rubenwardy I heard that he opened some patents
01:58 Xiong Eventually Terra will start shipping felons to Mars. They won't have to pay, they won't have a choice. They'll be forced to slave labor but it will be possible to escape or work it off. Their children will be free.
01:58 rubenwardy I'm also hoping he'll target the masses eventually, makes sense
01:58 rubenwardy like Facebook - start as exclusive, then open up
01:59 VanessaE rubenwardy: well, there's also the Nissan Leaf.  that's what, 200 km range with a new battery pack?
01:59 rubenwardy is that good?
01:59 Xiong rubenwardy++
01:59 VanessaE that's a mediocre range, but those go for something like $30k.  well below the average price for a sedan or coupe.
01:59 rubenwardy being this exclusive also helps change the perception of electric cars
01:59 VanessaE (which is some $33k)
02:00 VanessaE but that average price is still out of reach for us poor schmucks.
02:01 est31 if EV batteries have a wear like smartphone batteries do, then you won't have fun with a used EV either
02:01 est31 bought my smartphone in 2013 and it has its third battery
02:02 est31 now imagine doing that with an EV where the battery is the main component of the price of a new car :)
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02:02 VanessaE nah
02:02 VanessaE EV batts don't work like that
02:02 Xiong 1755 <+rubenwardy> Xiong: the world size bloat could be mitigated... Well yes hey. But the static spawn model dominates.The claustrophobic spawn rooms, walls of signs nobody reads, long hike out of crowded downtown. Do not like.
02:03 VanessaE modern EV battery tech is good for 10-15 years, beyond which you're looking at maybe half the range as when new, at worst.
02:03 est31 VanessaE: cool
02:04 VanessaE I seem to recall Tesla rating their batt modules as 80% of new capacity, or better, at that age range.
02:05 VanessaE Xiong: regarding world size bloat:  use leveldb instead of sqlite for your map database backend
02:05 VanessaE (does the mobile client support that?)_
02:05 Xiong Uh... I drive a taxicab. Here in SF, hybrids are mandated. We have many years' experience with batteries. It has not bern great. I can show you photos of a car still on our lot that came to end of life. Not pretty.
02:05 est31 used to but it was disabled iirc
02:06 est31 I remember reviewing a PR by monte
02:06 est31 maybe it has been enabled again tho
02:06 VanessaE Xiong: not hybrid batts.  those are still usually lead-acid, are they not?
02:06 VanessaE true EV batts are LiPo
02:07 Xiong VanessaE Nonissue. I rarely go outside a 1 km radius.
02:07 Xiong Nono, hybrids Li-ion.
02:07 VanessaE ok.
02:07 VanessaE I"m thinking PRius.
02:07 VanessaE those used lead-acid.
02:08 VanessaE (and their batts would shit the bed after about 5 years)
02:08 Xiong I'm not an expert. I just see what I see.
02:09 VanessaE either way, I wish I had one.  plug-in hybrid or full EV.  instead, '92 deVille that's showing its age
02:09 Xiong Okay always fun chat but either I go play mt or wash my socks. See you all.
02:11 * VanessaE imagines Xiong breaking out the tub and washboard
02:11 VanessaE :)
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03:16 exio4 VanessaE: lead-acid hasn't been used in electric vehicles in a long time
03:17 VanessaE I know now :P
03:18 VanessaE not that it matters.  only upper middle class and beyond can afford the damn things anyway
03:18 exio4 est31: btw, when it comes to "battery endurance" - there's many kinds of chemistries, nowadays on phones the "most-dense" batteries are used, and you try to get the most, even if it means the battery will be garbage after 4 years
03:19 exio4 on EVs, teslas to give a "fancy example" - batteries are rarely charged to 100%, instead of 80%, and you'll likely avoid discharging it to 0% or very low percents, although you can
03:19 exio4 on a phone you will likely not care if you run out of battery normally :)
03:21 exio4 VanessaE: the nissan leaf seems to do 240~ km
03:21 exio4 just googled
03:21 VanessaE nice
03:21 exio4 either way, electric vehicles are complicated in terms of range
03:22 exio4 because on urban settings, on "ideal" conditions (saving on heating/cooling, etc), it'll last forever
03:22 VanessaE though 200 vs 240, close enough :P
03:22 exio4 while on a road, at 110km/h, your range will go down quickly
03:22 exio4 it might be 260-290 on an urban setting
03:22 exio4 maybe more
03:23 VanessaE oh well.  may as well be 1000 km, still can't afford one :P
03:23 exio4 VanessaE: not even a renault zoe?
03:23 VanessaE *googles*
03:24 VanessaE looks to be in the $27k range
03:24 exio4 VanessaE: you could get an used 1y year old EV
03:24 VanessaE not a chance.
03:24 VanessaE not with my income and poor credit.
03:25 exio4 where are you from again?
03:25 exio4 US? UK?
03:25 VanessaE western North Carolina.
03:25 exio4 oh
03:25 exio4 well, you need to think you get to pay a lot less due to tax benefits
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03:26 exio4 iirc it can be like $12k in the nicest states
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03:26 VanessaE on average, a 1-year-old used car will command around 50-75% of its original price if it's in like-new condition.
03:26 exio4 electric vehicles depreciate a lot faster
03:27 exio4 because "battery fear", advances in batteries, and so
03:27 exio4 so the previous model might boost only 75% or so of the range of the newer model
03:27 VanessaE but when you make less than $11k/year, no one's gonna sell you a car that you can't pay cash on the barrel for.
03:27 exio4 oh
03:27 exio4 RIP
03:27 VanessaE yup.
03:27 exio4 $11k a year is low even here
03:28 exio4 well, not low low rn because my currency just fucked up
03:28 exio4 so right now that's a nice wage, but *two months ago* it wasn't
03:28 VanessaE $11k/year is low no matter where you go in the US.  might be good livin' in China or something though :P
03:29 exio4 VanessaE: I'm from Argentina, though
03:29 exio4 :P
03:29 VanessaE I have no guesses how well someone can live on US $11k/year there :P
03:29 exio4 I hear it's pretty good in California!
03:29 * exio4 hides
03:30 VanessaE hah.
03:30 VanessaE maybe on some parallel earth.
03:30 exio4 the inverse-earth
03:30 VanessaE (earth 90 ought to be getting pretty cheap by now :P )
03:30 exio4 where california is actually a cheap place to live?
03:30 exio4 I want an EV
03:30 exio4 but I have no money for any kind of vehicle anyway lol
03:31 exio4 and over here there's pretty much no market for EVs, so you don't find ads for it or so
03:31 exio4 they just became legal two years ago or so
03:31 VanessaE I have to scrimp and save for any repairs on my car that exceed about $75.
03:32 exio4 you seem to be living like you're argentine
03:32 VanessaE (and there's one looming on the horizon that I am *not at all* happy about)
03:32 VanessaE heh
03:33 exio4 have you tried applying for argentine citizenship? i mean, doing magic tricks with money - that's basically what people do here!
03:33 VanessaE my 3d printer helps a bit though.  25¢ worth of filament and electricity saves me $45 :P
03:33 exio4 damn
03:33 exio4 I want a 3D printer
03:33 exio4 but again, stuff here is expensive :(
03:34 VanessaE I got mine when times were still decent.
03:34 exio4 importing stuff here is deadly expensive
03:34 exio4 so getting ship from china means 50% taxes if I do it
03:34 VanessaE you can get one similar to mine for around $150 on eBay
03:34 exio4 getting stuff shipped*
03:34 VanessaE and filament goes for around $12/kg
03:34 VanessaE of course shipping is the killer
03:35 exio4 more like taxes here :P
03:35 VanessaE (clarification:  "meh quality" filament is around $12/kg.  high-end stuff is $30-35/kg)
03:36 VanessaE what if you get it shipped from the US?
03:36 VanessaE at least then you have a land route and all
03:36 exio4 VanessaE: it's the same
03:36 VanessaE hm
03:37 exio4 there's only exceptions if I go through a courier IIRC
03:37 exio4 the trick is that it is limited to 5 times a year
03:37 VanessaE that sucks :-/
03:38 exio4 yup
03:38 exio4 either way, I'm leaving soon
03:38 exio4 as soon as I get my degree I'm leaving :P
03:39 VanessaE the irony of my statement:  my printer's down.  burned-out primary power connector (it's a common failure on this model), new, better connectors are already on-order.
03:39 VanessaE where are you headed then?
03:39 piesquared 3D printed connectors? :p
03:39 VanessaE heh.
03:39 VanessaE in theory, I could, if I had the actual metal contacts :P
03:41 exio4 VanessaE: I plan going to Spain for a few years with the goal of obtaining Spanish citizenship and thus access to the EU
03:41 VanessaE cool.
03:41 exio4 hopefully!
03:41 VanessaE just make sure you don't disappear from here :)
03:41 exio4 heh
03:41 exio4 I did disappear for a few months
03:41 exio4 maybe a year or so
03:41 VanessaE I know.
03:41 VanessaE we all missed ya :)
03:42 exio4 aww <3
03:42 exio4 you didn't forget about me!
03:42 VanessaE which reminds me, what do you hear from kaeza?
03:42 exio4 I haven't heard about him in a long time
03:42 VanessaE bummer
03:43 exio4 he seems to have EmailMemos enabled & his user has been seen lately
03:43 exio4 in other words, he's still around freenode, but not in #minetest - and he's using another nick apparently :P
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03:43 VanessaE still rockin' the cell-phone-based internet I bet :)
03:44 exio4 heh
03:44 VanessaE evening, LazyJ
03:44 LazyJ Howdy VanessaE ;)
03:45 exio4 man, EVs are so awesome
03:45 exio4 Teslas changed the market for vehicles by making a fancy electric vehicle which actually had awesome range, etc :P
03:45 exio4 expensive car for sure
03:45 exio4 but still
03:46 VanessaE an EV would do well here, with this hilly terrain.  regenerative braking :)
03:47 est31 EVs can accel so fast
03:47 est31 really cool
04:01 exio4 I'm just so hyped about the fact that they're so efficient
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05:06 Xiong Ahh. Disassembling a moretrees tree is not short work. I feel I've accomplished sth.
05:07 Xiong When I started this world I sought rubber trees... and found one almost at spawn. I resolved not to touch it and I've gone to take others. Unfortunately, the prize was hemmed in by seven cedars.
05:09 Xiong Now the cedars are gone... and there is a nice fence about the rubber tree and whatever shrubs happened to fall within its limits.I'm delighted with myself... doesn't happen daily.
05:17 Xiong VanessaE I used to have a washboard. It was rigged to play as a percussion instrument. Long ago. When I settled on the banjo my then-partner took up the wasboard. Then the mandolin, but tuning that became my job... not a natural musician she. Dunno the washboard ended up where the brass clarinet went.
05:18 VanessaE dude, kill the joke dead, why don't ya :P
05:18 Xiong Once saw a good washboard player at a folky fair. I swear she was hitting sixty-fourth notes.
05:19 Xiong Normally I wait for percussion solos to end. Not this.
05:20 Xiong Sorry? No joke. Really did play washboard a time.
05:20 VanessaE not play.
05:20 VanessaE literally use as a washboard.
05:20 VanessaE you mentioned washing your socks
05:21 Xiong Well, not well. Not a great banjo player either.
05:21 Xiong Oh. Figure of speech. I send them out.
05:23 Xiong I decided long ago I was too poor to do my own laundry. About a year ago I was feeling poorly, recovering from never mind, took my stuff to Laundromat to get out. Felt good to move around but never again.
05:23 Xiong Laundromat eats time better spent working. For me anyway.
05:24 Xiong Erm... also Mama Wang does a much better job. ;)
05:25 tune Wait, what? How can you be too poor to do your own laundry? I would think it'd be cheaper to do yourself (as most things are).
05:26 tune I guess electric dryers use a lot of power. You'd have to compare the cost of regularly using your own equipment to how much you spend at the laundromat per month, I suppose.
05:26 tune (or wash and dry via more traditional methods, maybe scrub with soap and hot water in a sink and then dry in the sun on a clothes line)
05:27 Xiong BTW have rebuilt hydro plant to MV past 10 kW... plenty if room for expansion. I just have the mills in vertical stacks, with cable in a stack to rear. Works great 100%, thank you!
05:27 VanessaE Xiong: kEU, not kW :P
05:29 Xiong Time is money, tune. I'm self-employed so if I never ate or slept I'd be rich. As it is, older I get, more I must rest.
05:29 VanessaE time != money >:(
05:29 Xiong The Electrical Unit of power is the watt.
05:29 VanessaE nonono
05:29 VanessaE an EU is an "energy unit"
05:30 Xiong Well... there are other units.
05:30 VanessaE they're more analogous to a joule than a watt
05:30 VanessaE (or more like 1EU is some tens or hundreds of thousands of joules)
05:30 Xiong Um sorry no. A joule is one watt second... or a watt is one joule per second.
05:31 VanessaE well anyway, EUs are both a unit of energy and of power.
05:32 VanessaE I guess when used as a unit of power EU/m would be roughly right.
05:32 Xiong So the energy stored in a battery or capacitor can be measured in joules. The output of a generator is a rate, so watts.
05:32 VanessaE RBA and I went a few rounds over this -- he explicitly wanted to avoid relating technic power to watts/volts/joules.
05:33 VanessaE but in the absence of a more fitting measure, we stuck to volts at least.
05:33 Xiong No unit of measure can apply to both power and energy. That'd be like measuring area with a yardstick.
05:34 VanessaE I know that, and you know that, and so did RBA.  but here we are :P
05:34 Xiong Oh, call 'em what you like.
05:35 VanessaE anyway, a battery stored EU, but power on a line is best thought of as EU/min.
05:35 VanessaE stores*
05:35 VanessaE this DOES need addressed some day.
05:35 Xiong I just... think in conventional terms. Realistically an industrial grinder would burn kilowatts... quite a few. But I stick to watts in my head.
05:36 Xiong But then "realistically" opens so many cans of worms we could open a seafood restaurant.
05:37 VanessaE if we just change all labels "EU" to "EU/min", except for on batteries (and adjust their charge/discharge rated) I think that would be enough.
05:37 VanessaE nore ^
05:37 VanessaE what say EU? ;)
05:37 Xiong Well. If you do... change battery capacity to watt hours. That's the US convention.
05:38 VanessaE no.
05:38 VanessaE technic isn't a US mod :)
05:38 Xiong Well then use European units. Never no mind.
05:38 VanessaE RBA was from germany, though I imagine they use watts and watt-hours pretty much everywhere
05:39 Xiong Watt isn't incompatible with the metric system.
05:39 Xiong Hell you can use horsepower.
05:39 VanessaE um...okay?
05:39 Xiong Or ergs.
05:41 Xiong Anyway it's all abstract. You have lossless cabling... superconductors. It's just a model.
05:41 VanessaE yup,
05:41 VanessaE hence the fictional EU.
05:41 sofar EPTU
05:41 sofar EU -> per time -> EPTU
05:42 VanessaE or just EUM :)
05:42 VanessaE EU (per) minute :)
05:42 sofar MEH
05:42 VanessaE heh
05:42 Xiong Well go ahead. But you gotta decide whether it's a unit of power or energy. Until then, I stick with watts and joules.
05:43 VanessaE calling it a unit of energy is easiest, then EUM/EPTU/whatever becomes the unit of power and is merely a label change.
05:44 VanessaE "a battery stores 20,000 EU and charges at a rate of 10,000 EUM" or some such
05:44 Xiong sofar yeh but how much time?
05:45 VanessaE (that's just an example. I do not recall how fast batteries can charge/discharge)
05:45 Xiong Units of measure are kinda like numbers. You can do math with them. But they must be defined.
05:46 Xiong VanessaE This is in a world where a day can pass in an hour. In my world I've stopped time... it's always noon. So I wouldn't worry about it. Just do what's easy and stick with it.
05:50 Xiong I look at a grinder, I think watts. I look at a battery... well, I think amp hours, then I think I don't wanna peel the wallpaper off "MV" so I think watt hours and now I'm turned around so I think joules. And wrap some more duct tape around my head.
05:51 VanessaE heh
05:52 Xiong At least technic cable handles well... very well. I have a real distaste for mesecons. What world does a blob of solder cost a whole block of magic? These are lightweight signal connections.
05:53 VanessaE "a blob of solder"?
05:54 Xiong Never know where they'll connect. A roll of bell wire would serve in place of about 12 different mesecons nodes.
05:54 VanessaE when I last checked, a mese block could ultimately split into something like 81 wires
05:54 Xiong Yah. All of them weird.
05:55 Xiong And the verticals are different. And weird in other ways.
05:56 VanessaE strange, I thought regular wires made sense just fine, though verticals can be a little confusing, which is why I often use stacks of mese blocks instea
05:56 VanessaE d
05:56 Xiong In fact I should forget tinkering with the drill modes. That only matters to anyone mad enough to run technic on a phone.
05:56 VanessaE and anyway, there are insulated wires, they connect only and precisely how you place them.
05:57 VanessaE unified mesecons mod in there will let you colorize them, also
05:57 Xiong I should tackle mesecons and replace all the weird stuff with "bell wire".
05:57 Xiong You don't do a lot of breadboard eh?
05:58 VanessaE not in years.
05:59 Xiong I don't sit down with a box of 18 scraps of wire. I have a roll and cut off what I need. I can't imagine throwing out a piece of straight wire because I need a bent one.
05:59 Xiong Look at technic cable. It just works.
06:00 VanessaE so does mescons.
06:00 Xiong Haha.
06:00 VanessaE it just uses a different model.
06:00 VanessaE remember, mesecons is meant to act like redstone
06:00 Xiong Well stinks.
06:00 VanessaE so it has to lie flat on nodes' surfaces.
06:00 Xiong Forget mc.
06:01 VanessaE whereas technic sorta models redpower II if I remember right
06:01 VanessaE tell that to Jeija
06:01 VanessaE :)
06:01 Xiong You can't place two mesecon wires in the same node. So adhering to one face is moot.
06:02 VanessaE of course you can't.
06:02 VanessaE that's an engine limitation
06:02 VanessaE not a mod limitation
06:02 VanessaE however,
06:02 VanessaE there is an insulated crossing wire.
06:03 Xiong In fact... in my hypothetical redo... that would be sth to fix. Place a second wire in the same 1 meter box, wow. Maybe even three.
06:03 VanessaE impossible to fix.
06:03 VanessaE can't be done.
06:03 Xiong Ohno. Replace the single wire with a double-wire node.
06:05 Xiong You know much better than I how to do it. Grinders don't really turn on... they're replaced with ?_active.
06:05 VanessaE there has to be one node definition per wire shape, because the engine doesn't have a "mesecons-like" or "redstone-like" drawtype, so it has to be done manually.  I forget how many shapes, maybe 30 or 40?  double that for on/off (light, no light) states.  add a second wire to the node?  that'll be 80*80 = 6400 nodes, and that would be just one color.
06:06 VanessaE technic gets away with it because its cabling can use the connected node draw method, and it doesn't have light/no-light states.
06:06 Xiong Need a new tool... pliers. Reach into node, twist the wires around. Go through messy formspec probly.
06:06 VanessaE there's an "extrawires" mod that may help
06:07 VanessaE it implements some of what you want.
06:07 Xiong No, the isomorphism group of a cube isn't that large.
06:07 VanessaE the what?
06:08 Xiong There aren't very many ways to define a set of cube faces as connected.
06:09 Xiong The mt engine is okay with rotations.
06:09 VanessaE rotation isn't enough :P
06:09 VanessaE and mesecons predates the modern methods.
06:09 Xiong Nope but isomorphism up to rotation is a small group.
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06:10 VanessaE remember, mesecon wires don't just connect horizontally.  they climb, too.
06:10 VanessaE that's why there's do many unique shapes.
06:10 Xiong Right. A cube has six faces. They should be distinguished but handled alike.
06:11 Xiong Wait, I'll dig up an eli5.
06:11 VanessaE a cube has six faces.  a cube with climbing walls has 9 (no top).
06:12 VanessaE a wire can enter from one side, let's say X+, connect to wires crossing from say Z-/Z+, and then exit going up a hill along X-
06:13 Xiong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube#Uniform_colorings_and_symmetry
06:14 Xiong Ignore the stuff about colorings. Also see that only max three wires can pass the cube.
06:14 VanessaE "can pass the cube"?
06:14 Xiong There are only six faces; each useful wire must connect at least two.
06:15 VanessaE you're ignoring climbing hills.
06:15 VanessaE in that instance, a wire may connect up to 6 faces.
06:15 Xiong So the isomorphism group collapses. You can practically count them on your fingers, up to rotation.
06:16 Xiong Yes ... one wire six faces. Then no room for any more wire. Where would it go?
06:16 VanessaE there are four more faces to consider.
06:17 Xiong Nono. That's one case: one wire six faces.
06:17 VanessaE no.
06:18 Xiong There's also one wire two faces adjaccent, and two faces opposed.
06:18 Xiong Then one wire three on corner
06:19 Xiong And one to three in a U shape.
06:20 VanessaE well maybe I'm wrong on the total numbers
06:20 VanessaE but my point stands.
06:20 Xiong one wire four-face... all same no matter how you do.
06:20 Xiong Sorry. Two forms.
06:21 Xiong One wire five faces one form.
06:22 Xiong We'll ignore the empty set for now but in practice just as easy to leave the  wire in the nide and completely disconnect it.
06:23 VanessaE well however many individual node definitions there are, what you're asking for (some kind of generic, free-form wiring with up to three conductors in a node) would take lots of node defintions.
06:24 VanessaE I don't think mesecons uses rotation for its shape defs, but let's assume it does, so you have like 10 unique definitions.  that's 1000 nodes to allow for three conductors, if they are all the same color.
06:24 VanessaE double that because they have on/off states.
06:24 Xiong Well. As many as moretrees, plantlife, and that damn seaweed? (Not that I don't appreciate the authenticity of the pest).
06:25 Xiong Nonono. Nowhere near 1000.
06:25 VanessaE how do you figure?
06:26 Xiong Erm... you need to be comfortable with geometry and group theory?
06:26 Xiong Dunno.
06:26 VanessaE when I last checked, it would be number of states ^ number of positions
06:26 Xiong I'm a funny guy. My mother was funny but not quite the same way.
06:26 VanessaE so if we have 10 node defs and three wires, that's 10³
06:27 VanessaE and then, we couldn't use that because it assumes rotation.  without rotation, there are far more nodes defined for just one wire, hence my guess of around 30 or 40
06:28 Xiong Rubik's Cube came out, I was in the Army. Army gives you stsnd around and wait. I carried the cube in my pocket every minute, took it apart. Took me five months to crack it.
06:30 VanessaE well if you think you can math it out, I'm sure Jeija would be interested.
06:30 Xiong I took it apart again, gave it some silicone grease, and got my average time to about 45 sec. Feelin good. Then home, I showed my mother. Remember, this was a new thing then.
06:32 Xiong She took one look and said Yeh, I saw that. The solution is obvious. It's just the rotation group of a 3 cube yattayatta... (I'm not a mathmatician) and the minimal path is X and the hoge is piyo
06:32 VanessaE yeah, see maths is not at all my thing.
06:33 Xiong So I handed the cube to her; she wouldn't take it. She said she lacked the manual dexterity needed actually to work it. *rimshot*
06:34 VanessaE but the bottom line is the more wires you want to pass through the node, the more node defs you need, because they'd have to be able to go any which way, and you wouldn't be able to use rotation, as that would complicate the circuit math too much
06:34 VanessaE minetest does not have a concept of micro blocks.  one unique shape, pattern, mesh, whatever, is one node definition.
06:35 Xiong Except rotation is okay. Called "facedir".
06:35 VanessaE I know that, you know.
06:37 Xiong Actually I don't know why there can't be exactly one nodedef... with a tiny bit of metadata attached.
06:37 VanessaE because the engine has no support for such a thing.
06:37 VanessaE the closest is connected nodeboxes
06:37 VanessaE which is what technic uses
06:37 Xiong Eh? All kinds of nodes have metadata. Look at a chest.
06:38 VanessaE but those can't climb walls.
06:38 Xiong ???
06:38 Xiong Of course. I have often built chest walls.
06:38 VanessaE the engine has no support for using metadata to alter the appearance of the mesh.
06:39 Xiong I think you're hung up on the visuals. I don't care what it looks like.
06:39 VanessaE I am hung up on what I know the engine can and cannot do.
06:39 Xiong So...
06:39 VanessaE mods cannot alter the engine behavior, so we can't just add new drawtypes at-will.
06:40 Xiong So...
06:40 VanessaE as I was saying,
06:40 Xiong Howabout the same as LV cable?
06:40 Xiong Or pipeworks tubes?
06:41 Xiong That's visual enough for me.
06:41 VanessaE the closest to what you want (one node def no matter how many shapes it can make) is connected nodeboxes like tubes and technic cables use, but they can't climb up/down to meet other nodes *in response to a neighbor above or below*
06:41 Xiong Eh?
06:42 Xiong I have no trouble connecting cables and pipes. None.
06:42 VanessaE the engine simply does not check anything except the nodes to the 6 sides.
06:42 VanessaE ok ok, look
06:42 Xiong Right.
06:43 VanessaE imagine a 3x3x3 volume, as in a rubik's cube.
06:43 VanessaE your target node is at the cented.
06:43 VanessaE center*
06:43 Xiong Do not want the wires zipping across the room. The adjacent 6 nodes are the universe.
06:43 Xiong "Target"?
06:43 VanessaE the place where you put your first piece of wire or tube.
06:44 Xiong Right right.
06:44 VanessaE with the drawtype used by technic cable, and pipeworks tubes, only the 6 nodes adjacent to that space'
06:44 VanessaE s kfkldsjoj;gfhjspkwhgjpikhhijpshaijghodsa
06:44 VanessaE with the drawtype used by technic cable, and pipeworks tubes, only the 6 nodes adjacent to that space's sides are checked when deciding what connects to what
06:45 Xiong Having done so I now have a solder blob in midair, half a meter from the floor.
06:45 VanessaE in the rubik's example, that's the middle of each outside face, right?
06:45 Xiong I drop another blob to one side, a third on top of the first.
06:46 Xiong I think three dimensionally. So okay.
06:46 VanessaE right.  now, what happens if you fill in that fourth spot to go around the edge?
06:46 Xiong The third blob has no knowledge of the second. So?
06:46 VanessaE gah never mind.
06:46 VanessaE just forget it.
06:47 Xiong Why?
06:47 VanessaE because I'd need to make a few sketches, but you being on a mobile is going to complicate it
06:47 Xiong Either the fourth blob touched an existing blob or does not. If not, it's not an issue.
06:48 VanessaE ok let's do it this way:
06:48 VanessaE erase your mental whiteboard :P
06:48 Xiong I agree a sketch would be handy. But go on...
06:48 VanessaE draw a rubik's cube, split into slices of 3x3 pieces.
06:49 VanessaE assume there is a piece at the center, instead of the toy's 6-way hub.
06:49 Xiong Yes. The center cube touches only the six face cubes.
06:50 VanessaE let's number the spaces from top to bottom, left to right, back to front.  1-9 on the top slice, 10-18 on the middle slice, 19-27 on the bottom
06:50 VanessaE so out center is space #14
06:50 ShadowBot https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/14 -- Jack o lantern by Myu-Unix
06:50 VanessaE shaddup, bot.
06:51 Xiong The face cubes touch only the center cubes and four edges each. Each edge cube touches two faces and two corners. Each corner touches three edges.
06:51 VanessaE don't overthink it.
06:51 VanessaE just put your "blob of solder" on space 14.
06:51 Xiong I have overthought the 3-cube long ago. Sorry.
06:52 VanessaE add another blob to space 15, with a wire connecting back to 14.  then another on/to space 5.  that's what you mentally drew earlier, right?
06:52 Xiong Blob in center yes. ID 14.
06:53 Xiong No sorry, your model insufficiently specified. Let me draw okay. See you in a few.
06:54 VanessaE my model is a 3x3x3 volume of cubes, as in the game.
06:54 VanessaE just split into slices to make it easier to draw.  like "3d chess" from star trek :P
06:55 VanessaE Xiong: does this site work for you?  https://awwapp.com/b/uyoy7t6e3/
07:08 Xiong https://i.imgur.com/zSTEU5b.png
07:08 Xiong Sorry it tool so long. I think it is unambiguous.
07:08 Xiong Nothing works on Android.
07:09 VanessaE try anyway?
07:09 Xiong Does my model stink?
07:09 VanessaE no, but it doesn't reflect what I described.
07:10 VanessaE (not surprising, doing this over text without a realtime whiteboard is a pain in the ass.
07:10 VanessaE )
07:10 Xiong erm it reflects a cube dissected into 27 smaller cubes.
07:10 VanessaE yes, but the spaces you highlighted aren't the ones I indicated.
07:10 VanessaE gimme a second.
07:11 Xiong It's easy to talk about each subcube precisely.
07:11 Xiong No. I chose those exemplars for surety in orientation.
07:13 Xiong We can't  see 111 but we both know where it is. We also know where 012 is. And so on. Unambiguous.
07:13 Xiong I even put Y up, although I think it's silly. But this is how we roll.
07:13 VanessaE wait.
07:13 VanessaE busy...,
07:14 Xiong While you do that....
07:15 Xiong I say I put a wire... which the first just looks like a little cube or blob like a lone bit of technic cable. For talking, we say that wireblob is at 111.
07:17 Xiong Second I place wire at 112. This is adjacent, so connects. Third at 121, adj to 111 so connects to it... but not to 112.
07:18 Xiong I desire earnestly to know where the fourth wireblob goes.
07:19 VanessaE https://i.imgur.com/PnW2gFm.png
07:20 Xiong There are no numbers or words.
07:20 VanessaE the red dots are the example I was trying to give. tubes or technic cable.  they'll form a loop, right?  the green dots represent two mesecons wire.  if using the same drawtype as tubes/cables, what you see is what you'd get.
07:20 VanessaE meh forget the numbers, just look at the layout.
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07:21 Xiong Unclear your point. They're unconnected dots.
07:22 Xiong Two of the sketches are the same. One is empty.
07:22 VanessaE anyway, the green dots represent a mesecons circuit climbing a hill.  two pieces of wire occupying two node spaces.   the green cuby things at the top right, that's what they'd do in-world.
07:22 Xiong Hill?
07:22 VanessaE yeah.
07:23 VanessaE you know, going from a start point to let's say X+1, Y+1?
07:23 Xiong In our terms there are only nodes... locations.
07:23 VanessaE yes, same thing
07:24 Xiong What is so broken with my model that you will not use it? A highly specific language is established... terse and unambiguous.
07:24 VanessaE knock that off, please.
07:24 VanessaE ok, look...  if you placed four tubes or technic cables at the spaces marked in red, what would it form?
07:25 Xiong No. Took me 13 min to draw and post. Not invented here?
07:25 VanessaE *facepalm*
07:26 Xiong It's exact, simple, and durable. It's obviously extensible to more than 27 cubes.
07:26 VanessaE your model isn't usable because I can only see 3 faces of the volume, and thus some of the sub-cubes are hidden.  that's why I said to split it into slices, as in my drawing.
07:26 Xiong I can see all 27 cubes in my head.
07:27 VanessaE I'm not in your head.
07:27 VanessaE I can see all 27 in my drawing, flat otui.
07:27 VanessaE flat out*
07:27 Xiong Yes but you can see them all in your head too. No?
07:27 VanessaE yes, but in my drawing I have already laid out the example I was trying to describe earlier.
07:28 Xiong The red cube is 000. The center is 111.
07:28 VanessaE sigh
07:28 VanessaE will you please just use my drawing
07:28 Xiong And I can't make heads or tails of what you've drawn, sorry.
07:30 Xiong Life is give and take. If you can't take what I give, you need to say why it sucks. I can draw the model differently. Perhaps the model is not self-consistent. But I don't think it's broken.
07:30 VanessaE what's wrong with it?  two 3x3x3 volumes split into three slices apiece. the left stack containing the example I was trying to give, the right stack a different example (ignore the thing at the top right, for now)
07:30 Xiong Well it helps to add words.
07:31 VanessaE the four red dots are at X, X+1, Y+1, and X+1, Y+1
07:31 Xiong What's socially wring with your drawing is, I posted mine first. Yes that matters.
07:31 Xiong Dibs.
07:32 VanessaE which I guess would be 000, 100, 010, and 110?
07:32 VanessaE (or I dunno what, your coords don't make sense to me)
07:33 Xiong Okay... why not? Really, I don't think I'm perfect.
07:33 Xiong They're just like mt... except I likely reflected them.
07:33 VanessaE because in a minetest world, the center of a volume is 0, thus negative and positive coords.
07:34 Xiong Well if the red blick is at 000 then the rest are all east, up, or north of it.
07:36 Xiong I can redo the model using negative numbers but dunno why. We're unlikely to run out of positive integers. Lemme do that for you though.
07:36 VanessaE just nevermind.
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07:36 VanessaE I'll add your coords to my drawing.
07:39 Xiong Ha. I did screw up.
07:40 Xiong No. I thought I was wrong but I was mistaken.
07:41 VanessaE https://i.imgur.com/fGCVqKd.png
07:41 VanessaE if I got your coord system right.
07:43 VanessaE (forgot to add:  the thing at the top right with the cuby green blobs, the base 3x3 layer under them is Y=0 in the same coord profile)
07:43 VanessaE (forgot to add:  the thing at the top right with the cuby green blobs, the base 3x3 layer *incompletely-drawn* under them is Y=0 in the same coord profile)
07:45 VanessaE in this drawing, again assuming I have the same coordinates as you, if you put a technic cable in those four node spaces marked in red, it'll form a loop, right?
07:47 Xiong Hadda pee. /me looks
07:48 Xiong I just don't see the need to explode the model.  But okay. Let me read scrollback.
07:50 Xiong So I see you depict two situations. The green situation you drew twice. Fine.
07:50 VanessaE ignore the green situation for the moment
07:50 Xiong I agree the red situation forms a loop.
07:50 VanessaE ok.
07:50 VanessaE NOW pay attention to the green
07:51 Xiong The two green nodes are not adjacent in mt terms.
07:51 VanessaE if you put a technic cable, tube, or any other "connected nodeboxes" node in the two spaces, you'll get something that resembles the green cuby blobby bit at the top right, right?
07:52 Xiong Dunno. I'm thinking in abstract terms
07:52 Xiong The nodes are nonadjacent, full stop.
07:53 Xiong Each considers itself alone in the world.
07:53 VanessaE well in-world, that's more or less what you'd get.  this is where the problem lies, the engine not only doesn't consider those two spaces as adjacent, it has no way to force them to be treated as such - no draw type or mode exists that will visibly connect the two nodes together.
07:53 Xiong The red blobs associate.
07:53 Xiong Well good that. We want no shorts.
07:54 VanessaE except:
07:54 VanessaE in mesecons, we *want* those two nodes to connect.
07:54 Xiong If I wanted them connected, I'd add a third blob.
07:54 VanessaE no
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07:54 Xiong Whatta you mean "we", white man?
07:55 VanessaE that ain't how mesecons has to work.  remember, it's intended to mimic how redstone wires are positioned.
07:55 Xiong Perhaps. I have no idea how anything works in mc.
07:56 VanessaE in the old days, it used the raillike engine drawtype, which *does* treat those two green-marked nodes as adjacent, but at a cost:  wires went up and down at angles, and tended to rotated wrong, and just plain looked horrible
07:56 VanessaE (that drawtype works fine for rails, not so much for wires :P )
07:56 Xiong I consider mc offal. No offense to any good person inadvertently swept uo in the conspiracy. But this is minetest.
07:57 VanessaE well be that as it may,
07:57 Xiong No angles in mt. Everything orthogonal.
07:57 VanessaE everything except raillike, yeahj.
07:57 VanessaE -j
07:57 VanessaE so anyway,
07:58 Xiong I don't see why you want nonadjacent nodes to connect.
07:58 VanessaE because redstone does.
07:58 Xiong And....?
07:58 VanessaE no and.
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07:59 VanessaE since mesecons has to "fake it" to make wires climb up the sides of a wall to meet a diagonally-adjacent, it has to define one node for each unique mesh/shape
07:59 Xiong I spit on everything not minetest.
08:00 Xiong Not interested. If all mt can do is open sounce clone mc.... why? Our game is better.
08:00 VanessaE yeah yeah, you don't like MC.  got it.  but its redstone gave us a circuit layout model to follow.
08:01 Xiong A bad model... which I think I'm trying to overturn
08:01 VanessaE never going to happen.
08:01 Xiong That's where I began an hour ago. I don't like mesecons.
08:01 VanessaE Jeija will never agree to something that'll break how circuits are laid out.
08:02 Xiong So... too bad. In FLOSS, nobody needs permissions.
08:02 Xiong I didn't offer to join the mesecons team.
08:02 VanessaE sure.  but you'd be trying to develop yet another competing project.
08:03 VanessaE I've lost count of how many there have been :)
08:03 Xiong I think the system is bad... I don't like it.
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08:04 Xiong Perhaps I won't do it. But all this talk about... what? Preserving compatibility?
08:04 VanessaE yep
08:04 Xiong *shrug*
08:04 Xiong Either a new thing has merit and thrives or lacks it and dies.
08:04 VanessaE but, all of that aside.
08:05 VanessaE you started out wanting to route more than one wire through a node.
08:05 Xiong No not teally.
08:05 VanessaE [12-18 01:03] <Xiong> In fact... in my hypothetical redo... that would be sth to fix. Place a second wire in the same 1 meter box, wow. Maybe even three.
08:05 VanessaE no?
08:06 Xiong I think I started out furious that mesecons connected funny. One wire per node would be par.
08:06 VanessaE so what ARE you hoping to accomplish then?
08:06 Xiong Three is gravy.
08:07 Xiong But I abhor the zillion bits of wire stuff. And I cannot figure how to build a simple circuit without going funky or flattening it out.
08:08 Xiong So I want one node that will connect any of its faces to any other... configurably.
08:09 VanessaE that would require an engine change.
08:09 VanessaE if you want more than one wire in a node, that is.
08:09 Xiong Back to that?
08:09 Xiong I think obviously not. Chests carry much more metadata.
08:10 VanessaE minetest doesn't work that way.
08:10 Xiong ???
08:11 Xiong Where dors it all fail? Diagonal connections? Do not want.
08:11 VanessaE just adding meta to a node, no matter its purpose or how you've specified it, will do nothing unless you alter the engine itself to be able to use that meta to alter the node's appearance.
08:11 Xiong Each wire has exactly six neighbors... all day.
08:12 VanessaE so for your simple 6-directional wire, you need nothing special.  not even meta.  just connected nodeboxes.
08:12 Xiong Argh. An hour ago I said I didn't care much how it looked. Technic cable look is great.
08:12 VanessaE you're missing the point
08:13 Xiong Right. Nothing special. Easy.
08:14 Xiong Your concerns may not be my concerns... nor the reverse. No offense. But just because I want it, I don't expect anyone else to agree.
08:14 VanessaE look, you said you wanted two wires to occupy a node.
08:14 Xiong The rendering is irrelevant to me.
08:15 Xiong Three wires is good. And it will, in your eye, look shite. I'll be delighted.
08:17 VanessaE the engine has no way to even *represent* such a thing, that's the problem.  ok, so you use some meta to tell one wire from another, but at some point you have to *draw* the damn things so that you can place and dig them.  whether they're thin wires, thick cables, zig-zags, pieces of leaves..  *something* has to be drawn
08:17 Xiong Do you realize I can pass three streams of product through one of your sorter pipes? They'll come in here, go out there.  They won't collide. Nothing will go the wrong way.
08:17 VanessaE tubes don't use nodes for the items.
08:18 Xiong So? Does mesecons use nodes for signals?
08:18 VanessaE yes.
08:18 Xiong No... nodes for wires.
08:18 VanessaE and for signals.
08:19 VanessaE wires have a visual "on" state, and that's how mesecons routes a signal, if I remember correctly.
08:19 Xiong Well that sucks.
08:19 * est31 logs back onto IRC
08:19 VanessaE i.e. the logical signal is directly tied to the visual
08:19 est31 you guys are still talking :)
08:20 VanessaE technic doesn't do that with its cables because it doesn't even track the cables at all during power updates -- it's all done strictly by logic (and finding stuff in-world, but not the cables)
08:20 VanessaE tubes, I forget. I think the mod tracks when an item needs to turn a corner, but otherwise lets the client move the item entity.
08:20 Xiong But obviously each node can communicate with its neighbors more sensibly than that. Even a machine can look at a cable and see if it's powered.
08:21 VanessaE in technic, individual machines don't check cables.  rather, the switching station does all the work to determine if a machine should be powered or not.
08:22 VanessaE (well, batteries and supply converters make their own checks, but that's kinda unrelated)
08:23 Xiong You may think my ideas silly because they're different. I might have to work to overcome features baked into the engine. But... if I didn't think as I do, I'd never have done anything I've done. And I'd still have my first job.
08:23 VanessaE so ANYway.. your two- or three-conductor node.    you can do all the fancy logic you want, using meta or something else to track which wire in the node has which signal, but at some point you have to not only draw them on-screen, you have to be able to place or remove any one of those conductors, right?
08:24 Xiong Mt engine is obviously Turing-complete. So it can do anything deterministic.
08:24 VanessaE Lua is, sure.  the engine is not.
08:24 Xiong Why is it so important that I not even think about trying to do this?
08:26 VanessaE why?  because you're disregarding the visuals of it.  how is a user supposed to tell one conductor from another?
08:26 Xiong No, the engine is t-c. Anything can be done with it. Extract square roots, play chess. May slow server, may melt it. But until the hardware fails, you're good.
08:27 Xiong Oh, the user can tell this from that because this is here and that's there. Anything else is gravy.
08:28 VanessaE and how do you plan to represent it?
08:29 Xiong I once built a small computer out of relays, a discarded traffic light controller, and about 30 feet of wire... all one color. I had no trouble identifying anything in that rat nest. Boss hated it.
08:29 VanessaE I don't mean wire colors.
08:30 Xiong No. What? There's nothing to decide except a few texture.png
08:30 VanessaE I mean what do you plan to draw them as?  big fat conductors like technic?  thin like mesecons (nevermind the way they join)?  in the center of the node, or on the bottom?  can they turn corners, jump over each other, etc?
08:31 Xiong Um... one solder blob. Two, a wire. Three, a blob again.
08:32 Xiong Center of node. I'm impartial.
08:33 VanessaE and I am correct in assuming you want to only display 1, 2, or 3 wires, as needed?  Not have three visible all the time?
08:33 Xiong You might want colored wires weaving in and out. That's typical of your work, VE, and believe me I appreciate it. But wires are not decorations.
08:34 VanessaE never. mind. about. colors.\
08:34 VanessaE let's just say three black wires running through the node.  all 3 always visible, or just whichever ones are neede?
08:34 VanessaE needed*
08:35 Xiong No. For me, at worst, a silvery blob at node center... about 1/4 m diameter... all the time for every.
08:36 Xiong No change, no nothing. You either know how it's wired or you touch each one and find out.
08:37 VanessaE it sounds like you're more inclined to do something akin to digilines (where any one "wire" is more like a 3-wire I²C bus)
08:37 Xiong Colors are a nice idea but that's a nonlocal concept.
08:38 Xiong Hey, that's another nice idea. All wires connect everywhere.
08:38 VanessaE ...
08:39 VanessaE I'm just trying to save you some work.  the concept you have in mind will fail miserably.
08:39 Xiong But you forget I'm an old hardware dog. I'll be happy to be able to wire two gates to each other in under half an hour.
08:39 Xiong Fail by your standards, certainly.
08:40 Xiong Sorry VE. You do excellent work but others... even outsiders... have ideas that are valid to them. Really.
08:41 VanessaE no one is going to want to use a mod that requires the user to manually examine each node in a circuit to determine its layout.
08:42 Xiong I can't come to #mt and only repeat what I've heard... or prescreen for orthodoxy. I'm a born radical. Can't help it. Been trying all my life.
08:42 VanessaE I get the "radical" individualism, I really do.
08:43 Xiong I would love it. I am not nobody. I take that seriously.
08:43 VanessaE but if you're going to invest time to make a mod, you have to focus on usability.
08:44 VanessaE what you propose, you'll find unusable after a while as well.
08:44 Xiong I'm playing singleplayer. Why? Nobody can see my great stuff. When I'm dead, it vanishes.
08:44 Xiong Why do I bother?
08:44 VanessaE because its fun, naturally.
08:45 VanessaE but is it fun to use a mod you wrote, that turns out to be a usability nightmare? :)
08:45 Xiong I find mesecons unusable now. Will you rest tonight knowing an unconverted heretic is loose?
08:45 VanessaE not talking about mesecons.
08:46 VanessaE I'm talking strictly your "make it all a solder blob" model
08:46 Xiong Well I was. I want sth better.
08:47 Xiong Yes well. That all-blob wouldn't be best. But it would be an improvement over mesecons... depending on how it looked.
08:48 Xiong You and I have vastly different standards. That's okay. I wouldn't dream of imposing mine. I like what you do now.
08:49 Xiong What do you see when you see a car? The color? The make or model? I see sth else.
08:50 VanessaE I see a vehicle designed to get me from A to B in relative comfort, with a user interface that's at least somewhat standardize (as in steering, turn signals, gas/brake, PRNDL, fuel door on the left, etc)
08:50 Xiong My mind has an abstract schematic of the car. Drive train, physics governing, legal history. This stack of info is what I see. Color is way down the list.
08:51 VanessaE (first thing I usually notice is its cosmetic condition, which can be an indicator of how well-taken-care-of the rest of the car is, e.g. it's more likely to BE a beater if it looks like one)
08:51 Xiong My eyes... I don't see the same world you do. In fact I know very few who see or think as I do.
08:52 VanessaE as far as cars go, I generally don't care about color too much
08:52 VanessaE (though I'd choose a light color over dark, for heat reasons)
08:52 Xiong I need to make a particular effort to reassemble the body back onto the car or I can barely see it.
08:53 VanessaE don't you suppose maybe, just maybe, you are looking at things the wrong way then? :P
08:54 Xiong Often thought. Now I know the question is moot. I yam what I yam.
08:55 Xiong I have Xray vision... and am otherwise blind. Oh well.
08:55 Xiong Life stinks.
08:57 VanessaE ...
08:57 Xiong You're a thoughtful person; you see below the surface. You chew your way through layers of superficiality. Good on you. Most look at the surface only. Hence bling.
08:58 VanessaE that's why I am so insistent that you not conflate the engine's abilities with those of the modding language :)
08:58 Xiong For me, the world is sort of a goo obscuring the abstract reality.
08:59 Xiong Not conflation. I challenge you to provide a counterexample.
09:00 VanessaE Lua can calculate a square root.  there's no API call into the engine to do that.
09:00 Xiong A minetest world fits the classic description of  T machine.
09:01 Xiong I don't need a library call. I can spawn shrubs until the calculation is complete.
09:01 VanessaE doesn't work like that.
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09:01 Xiong Really. It's a cellular automaton.
09:03 VanessaE um..
09:03 VanessaE this ain't Game of Life :P
09:03 Xiong Cellular automatons operate with one rule for all cells, each of which changes state according to its immediate neighborhood.... and fixed rules. Cellular automata are Turing-complete... some are.
09:04 Xiong I can write a Life mod.
09:04 Xiong In fact, pretty sure by now, someone has.
09:04 VanessaE yes you could, but Lua would be doing all of the work aside from the set_node() operations.
09:04 Xiong Oh well.
09:04 Xiong So?
09:05 VanessaE when Lua is doing something, the engine isn't
09:05 Xiong And?
09:05 VanessaE and?  they're two separate things.
09:05 Xiong By itself the engine draws me in midair in an empty world.
09:06 VanessaE something like that.
09:06 Xiong So...?
09:07 VanessaE meh.
09:08 Xiong So while you are undoubtedly right that mt can't extract a square root or play Life... I shall happily load mods and do what I will. Where's the issue?
09:09 Xiong https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?t=12421
09:09 Xiong Mentions Life specifically.
09:11 VanessaE I am referring to your comment much earlier, "Right. The engine. But in world I don't see an engine"
09:12 Xiong Correct. I live in the world. Most people live in the real world and have no idea how physics or what's a prime number.
09:13 Xiong They are able, though, to boil an egg and dispense the last porkchop.
09:14 Xiong This is why you and I had such communication difficulty around the MV mill. You said the mid did this, I said the mill did that. We were both right.
09:14 Xiong ... the mod....
09:15 VanessaE when you start up minetest, about half of what you see it just engine.
09:15 VanessaE (i.e. no mod/game code is running at first)
09:16 Xiong No doubt. Startup stinks.
09:16 Xiong The phone makes it much worse. Laggy servers stink too.
09:17 VanessaE indeed.
09:17 Xiong Then there's the heisenbug I cried over earlier.
09:18 Xiong Then there's the weirdness of a world that doesn't exist until it's explored.  Ah well.
09:18 VanessaE that doesn't seem to weird to me
09:18 VanessaE too*
09:19 Xiong I believe the entire universe exists, rightnow. And will be largely unchanged when I die.
09:21 VanessaE pretty much, yes.
09:21 Xiong We cannot see them but in this vast spacetime there are undoubtedly great star empires, furious battles, exploding stars, dying kings. They are just as real for all that I know nothing if them.
09:21 VanessaE it'll expand by a few tenths of a percent, but otherwise no meaningful change
09:23 Xiong When we finish pecking our way from this eggshell we will go forth and see who is nearby. They will not care for our preconceptions. They will... have been already. So yeh, mt is weird. It's a clever weirdness.
09:25 Xiong When a tree falls it makes a sound. Observer not needed. (I handwave at quantum uncertainty.)
09:25 Xiong When I'm not staring at the grinder it stops working!
09:27 Xiong Back when, I built a reactor underground and quarried. I spent much effort keeping my mining area within the mapblocks loaded by my character.
09:29 Xiong If I'd studied up harder, I probably wouldn't have tried. As it was, one of the wheels spent much time looking over my shoulder.
09:31 Xiong I'm blathering again. I'm coming to when the oast is more real than the present. Where were you going with the engine? The engine runs mods, the mods do fun stuff. Then?
09:31 VanessaE nothing, forgot where I was going with it.
09:31 Xiong Me too.
09:32 Xiong Better for me to go dig some coal... perhaps meseblocks.
09:33 VanessaE have fun with your solder blobs :P
09:33 Xiong More power!
09:33 Xiong Nah. Unlikely to invest. I have enough undone.
09:33 Xiong See you!
09:33 VanessaE cya
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10:54 twoelk wow, just learnt a lot about energy and power transmission concepts in minetest by reading the recent logs  :-D
10:55 twoelk somebody really should wikify some of that revealing info
10:56 * twoelk hides in fear of someone saying - you want it, then do it yourself -
10:57 riff-IRC I have fake powerlines
11:01 twoelk fake as in simply deco? or as in faking visually but getting the desired funktion?
11:01 riff-IRC Fake as in deco
11:02 riff-IRC When you mean transmission, you mean transmission over wires?
11:03 twoelk as I don't like them much in blocking my view in real life, I never saw the need to add them to any of my mt buildings :-P
11:04 twoelk only place I might accept them would be in a steampunky setup I guess - but then more steam and as little electrikery as possible
11:05 * twoelk wonders when Catweazel might be redone
11:06 riff-IRC so is there any defined voltage present on the lines?
11:08 twoelk no voltage in mt only EU as in EnergyUnits or such
11:08 riff-IRC o
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11:10 twoelk http://irc.minetest.net/minetest/2018-12-18#i_5462125
11:10 twoelk see discussion earlier today
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11:40 Xiong WWRAD? https://imgur.com/gallery/n2oDUHp
11:42 Xiong twoelk You want it, you do it. Feel free to ask for help.
11:48 Xiong riff-IRC I've never seen definitions of mt LV, MV, HV. Given what's connected, I kinda think LV is 220-240 V. Then MV at 660... should be three-phase. Dunno about HV. Metro catenaries run a few kV but mostly, past a point, what you save in copper you pay for in ceramic.
11:48 Xiong IRL, not much HV in distribution.
11:51 Xiong Erm... not to wax pedantic... if your fake power lines are "telephone poles" that's distribution. Transmission is the big steel god monster tower.
11:53 Xiong Back to mt. Dealing in watts... called EUs... sidesteps a lot of complexity. There's no concept of amperage so no need to deal with voltage. The three kinds of juice might as well be AC, DC, and raspberry.
11:55 Xiong Note the converter. Watts in, watts out. I like the 10% loss... would kill for anything that efficient IRL. But this makes planning straightforward.
11:58 Xiong And now back to your fake wires. I say, jazz 'em up. Package some decent streetlights with them. People must run your ugly wire to run your elegant lights. Worked for Tom... for a while.
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15:11 exio4 i love electricity
15:11 exio4 it's a concept which is both simple and mind-blowing and to think how dependent we are on electricity is just even crazier
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17:23 Xiong Simple? My professional life was built around electronics and I still don't understand it. I don't yet have in my head a mental model of a common silicon BJT... not one that satisfies me, fully transparent and intuitive
17:24 Ingar QM is neither transparant, nor intuitive :D
17:25 Xiong Put me and three other hardware dogs in the room, whisper one word and run away. We will argue about that word for an hour and only agree at long last that you are wrong. That word is "ground"
17:26 Ingar I"m the IT guy, I'll sit there and get paid whil you define ground
17:26 Ingar tell me whjen I can implement it :D
17:26 Xiong Yes well because microelectronics are engineered devices there's no uncertainty left.
17:29 Xiong Well there's no such thing as ground. There's earth, chassis, neutral, shield, zero volt, safety ground (one word), off. Any of which may or may not meet at some point.
17:31 Xiong I love electricity too. I also hate it. It's the battleaxe wife that keeps me up all night moving the living room furniture.
17:31 Ingar I do find it interesting, I hate Kirchhoff though
17:32 Xiong Why? The math is what bails you out.
17:33 Ingar not sure, because the math actually isnt that hard
17:34 Xiong When all else fails, break out the notebook and analyze the sucker. Assume nothing, measure everything, calibrate your instruments, write it all down. It's physical; the issue will fall to method.... eventually.
17:36 Xiong Trouble is, never enough time on the job. Clock ticking, boss shouting, bank growling.
17:39 Xiong One time boss set me and another young guy on a small machine that didn't ship.... a small dial index machine, under $200K. Leak tester for natural gas shutoff valves. We crawled all over the thing with a box of valves trying to get it to sort them the same way twice.
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17:41 Xiong I mean, if the part leaks now it should leak ten minutes later. If not, not. Basically two brass castings and a bolt.
17:44 Xiong I had a machinist turn out a steel dummy, same size as the part but a solid blank... guarantee no leak. Two days later, we agreed it was the damn seals. The silicone rubber wasn't conforming consistently to the rough castings. We were certain. So we changed to softer seals and tada.
17:48 Xiong Boss chewed us out with an evil grin for screwing around for two days, eliminating every possible cause, before trying different seals. Time is money and the customer doesn't pay until we ship. We were both smart, educated, and hardworking... but inexperienced... which was boss's point.
17:49 Xiong But yes if you can, bust out the method and pulverize the issue. It can't elude you forever.
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21:59 Xiong Technic autosort doesn't seem to behave as expected. The button is ON but new stacks tubed in do not sort with previous contents. Check by pushing manual Sort button. Am I doing sth wrong? Are my expectations off target?
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