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A few months after the WHO declared the covid pandemic, this site's chart shows Microsoft SEC filings said 180k employees and a year later they said 220k employees, so they gained 40k employees when the pandemic forced many people online and businesses/organizations bought service contracts from Microsoft.

So, Microsoft is laying off 10k employees. I'd say it is not because the workload decreased but because the workers got better at the job so fewer were needed (so then it became employee screening like EuchreJack posted).

The caravan guards... :p

You could argue that diagonals shouldn't reduce water pressure, but you could also argue that doors and bridges shouldn't reduce water pressure to 0. The question with diagonals might become, "how much should they reduce water pressure"? And, could dwarfs build a 1-tile construction that allows a n/7 liquid through every n ticks? Maybe the quality level of a door could determine how much water will leak through it...

Some "bugs" are the equivalent of "making a decision to round the numbers in one direction instead of the other", until a better way of doing things is done.

Can creatures can see through them? Plant gathering while dangerous things roam above...

Run it at a lower FPS, you'll see the dwarf's icon change when they go prone.

The prime reason for that example is to show the problem with using 1-wide corridors when alternate routes exist.

In a 1-wide corridor, dwarfs only will pass each other when there is no alternate route. If there is an alternate path, they will use it.

Here is a DFFD 50.05 example with two rooms connected by two 1-wide corridors, and three stockpiles linked in a loop. It should load up with two dwarfs heading towards each other in one corridor. When they meet, one reverses direction to use the other corridor, and there meets another dwarf but because there is no alternate route, one dwarf goes prone so they can pass.

How can I know if it is indoors or outdoors (apart from the obvious)?
Can I change outdoors into outdoors and otherwise?
I'm mostly interested in windmills (can I make them work underground) and farmplots (can I plant cave plants outside and regular plants in the caves).

You cannot see the information currently, but it will probably be back soon. It is likely all the info in the wikipedia from 47.05 is still accurate for farmplots and windmills (and someone will say if it is not).

To determine if a tile is "indoors" or "outdoor", check if there is a roof anywhere above the tile or attempt to build furniture that needs be be built indoors (bed, table, etc).

To determine if a tile is "light" or "dark", the method I know is to built a 1-tile farm plot and see what plants can be built there.

It used to take 17 uses of a skill at 30 xps each to gain a rank in architect, so put an unskilled dwarf in a locked rooms with 34 blocks, then save and test building 17 four-tile bridges (will use 2 blocks). You'll find if you get more than 30xp for multi-item constructions and what skill it trains.