This isn’t a comment on your broader point.

https://searchengineland.com/google-chrome-page-will-have-pa...

https://community.adobe.com/questions-638/adobe-flash-instal...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/filesubmission

https://www.findmysoft.com/news/google-gets-pushy-with-chrom...

Etc. This stuff was very real and is a ten second search away, maybe try that before accusing parent of having a faulty memory because it doesn’t agree with yours.

The GPU cost to pretrain on that page once will dwarf by 2-3 OOMs the CPU cost to compute Anubis, scrape and post process it. And you’re not going to just train on it once!

At best you’re creating a speed bump for wannabe players scraping with no real plan. The folks training models people use just do not care.

Eg you don’t need city blocks making circuits, just pipe in molten metal and make them with foundries and EM plants. And then you also get steel, copper wire, gears, whatever else you might need.

There are a few exceptions of course, like lubricant for electric engines, but it’s not nearly as complicated as it was pre Space Age.

It’s inefficient but has a very low cognitive load.

You can improve the efficiency a little by increasing the quality floor each level, eg rare iron ore, epic iron plate, legendary steel. But in my post endgame playthrough I was drowning in so much legendary ore with this method I didn’t bother.

Also my late game experience is probably not representative of the phase just after victory where trains may have a slight edge - there could be a sweet spot there where the decoupling is worth it because you can horizontally scale through bottlenecks.

By the end I was using dedicated patches for each science so trains just get in the way.

I did a 1m eSPM base though, and I don’t think the totality of all of that would bring me back to trains. Belts are extremely reliable, and I have never managed to make trains so.

It’s possible my interpretation wasn’t correct and the author was citing Kernel’s approach as sanity. That would make sense technically.

My i9 2019 MBP with discrete graphics was probably the worst laptop purchase I ever made. Docking it to an external monitor would enable the GPU, so even when idling it would run the fans and drain the battery.

I’d read cautionary tales about Windows laptops being pulled out of backpacks scorching hot as they failed to shut down. But that happened to my Mac all the time, too.

The M series though is incredible. I can’t imagine buying a Windows laptop now.

I don't see politics, I see frustrated maintainers of a hobby project that aren't particularly professional.

Folks generally tolerate issues if they believe they’ll get better with time. I know I did for a while. If that confidence collapses, that’s not politics.