I was rewatching the film recently and again I was impressed by the use of language. In the training scene with Gurney, there was a direct quote from the book - "you're not in the mood for fighting? Wtf?" (Paraphrase). Most of the film also used Dune language. But I felt that when Paul and Jessica were alone in the desert, they stopped speaking "Dunish" and started speaking English. Did anyone else notice this / feel this way too?

If it helps, it was Verstappen who did it on a British circuit. Based on ~~a dream~~ real events

I really love sci-fi novels and I read a lot of books. I read 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson a while back and that book is particularly interesting to me. Rather than each chapter advancing the narrative of the story, there were occasional breaks where a chapter would have a list of semi-random words which just gave the vibe of what's happening, or some history of a scene, or a recipe for how to build an asteroid.

There's another book that I have heard of but neglected to write the name down, where the reader of the book is a character within the book, and the narrator speaks directly to you (but not a choose-your-adventure style book).

All of this got me interested in finding other books, preferably sci-fi or maybe fantasy, where the concept of being a book is played with and new ideas are tried. Any recommendations?

TLDR: Please help me build a smelting array that doesn't get jammed with single pieces of stone / iron plates in the furnaces.

I'm playing a ribbon world and I've designed an industrial smelter, where a train full of ores pulls in, everything is smelted, then the same train leaves with all the finished products.

The problem is that furnaces get jammed with single stones or iron plates when I'm trying to make stone bricks or steel. I need all furnaces to empty completely so that they are ready for the next train which may hold different materials.

I can read the incoming material from the train (and there will never be mixed materials on a single train) and set the stack size accordingly, but the stack size behaviour isn't exact - an inserter will grab only one item if only one item is available rather than waiting for a full stack. Maybe there's a mod to change this behaviour?

Edit to add screenshot and blueprint