Friday Facts #28 The pack is back

[slpwnd]

So are the Friday Facts: http://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-28

[Rwn]

A bit unrelated, but do you follow/save the number of copies sold each day on the home page of Factorio? I'm under the impression that the sales accelerated since about last December; that would make an interesting topic in a future Friday Fact

[Nova]

"floating point operations non-determinism across different platforms" << What? I though every processor and OS use the IEEE 754 format and computes the same result on any computer (with some exceptions, like IBM or supercomputer).

[cube]

"floating point operations non-determinism across different platforms" << What? I though every processor and OS use the IEEE 754 format and computes the same result on any computer (with some exceptions, like IBM or supercomputer).

Well, almost. This depends mainly on compiler optimizations, what specialised hardware the compiler decides to use, when it moves values between registers and memory ... complex stuff, and probably hard to get right on different platforms. There is an interesting article about it: http://gafferongames.com/networking-for ... terminism/

[Gammro]

I just upgraded to furnace attendant. But the scenario pack that's on my profile page still says 0.7.5. Is there supposed to be another link available for the new version?

[slpwnd]

I just upgraded to furnace attendant. But the scenario pack that's on my profile page still says 0.7.5. Is there supposed to be another link available for the new version?

Thanks for the report. It is there now. Also I noticed that it is possible just "click through" the supply challenge, because I forgot some debugging code in the control.lua (for those interested to actually play it lines 404-409 in data/scenario-pack/scenarios/supply/control.lua should be uncommented).