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Is sending Factorio to your competitors' engineers a cost-effective means of sabotage?

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In light of the above tweet, and Ned Beauman's How ‘Factorio’ seduced Silicon Valley — and me (permalink), I wanted to approximate the magnitude of damage you could inflict with a Mass Steam Gifting Event of Factorio. My mate Huw recently made this funky library called dist, a lightweight alternative to Squiggle designed to be used with a batteries-included notebook environment such as Observable, where Squiggle is a minimalist programming language for probabilistic estimation. Let's put dist, and my HTML-embeddable notebook environment @celine/celine through their paces: First, we'll import dist and make it available globally. It's got a bunch of useful distribution creation functions mirroring those in Squiggle. Let's take a look at the engineering compensation levels of some random company on Levels.fyi. I dunno, uhhh, Anduril. Compensation distributions are typically lognormal, so plugging in $228kUSD as a 5th percentile and $406kUSD as a 95th percentile seems fine. Let's

January 10, 2025 In light of the above tweet, and Ned Beauman's How ‘Factorio’ seduced Silicon Valley — and me (permalink), I wanted to approximate the magnitude of damage you could inflict with a Mass Steam Gifting Event of Factorio. My mate Huw recently made this funky library called dist, a lightweight alternative to Squiggle designed to be used with a batteries-included notebook environment such as Observable, where Squiggle is a minimalist programming language for probabilistic estimation. Let's put dist, and my HTML-embeddable notebook environment @celine/celine through their…

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