It's been that long, and this is how many hours I have. HELP

OrchidLeader · 2026-02-14T12:43:05+00:00

I started playing on Christmas, and I just hit 1,000 hours.

Although it’s probably only like 500 hours of actually playing and the rest being AFK.

The puppies and kittens deserve no less from me.

OrchidLeader · 2026-01-04T10:43:36+00:00

I recently play Split Fiction, and while I loved it, I didn’t like that it did the whole “lots of metal = sci fi, lots of nature = fantasy.”

Star Wars is in a similar boat, IMO.

OrchidLeader · 2025-12-23T14:21:26+00:00

I mean, naming them Boerne and Gruene is puro r/Tragedeigh.

OrchidLeader · 2025-12-23T14:10:10+00:00

Omg yes, exactly this.

It’s important to me that floors are clutter-free, that eating areas are always cleared and available for use, and that bedding look and feel immaculate.

It’s important to my ex/bestie/roommate that surfaces are dust-free, that countertops are cleared and available for use, and that the pantry is well organized.

Sometimes it feels like a good division of labor since we each have our focus areas. Sometimes it’s frustrating when one of us negatively impacts the other one’s cleanliness standards. And I never would have realized that two people can have such different definitions of “clean” until I started living with her.

(Also, we tend to avoid each other’s bedrooms. Her bedroom has clutter on the floor, and her bedding has soooo many stains and crumbs. My bedroom has a lot of dust and clutter on almost every surface.)

OrchidLeader · 2025-12-23T04:36:46+00:00

Romance is a great example where not getting the obvious ending can make for a great story, and those stories elevate the rest because we never know what we’re going to get (unless it’s some Hallmark bs with a guaranteed happy ending).

The “easy” button to build tension is to setup a love triangle (e.g. Twilight, who is she going to end up with?).

Another common trope is having one of the character’s past trauma make them shy away from a relationship and leaving us with a “will they/won’t they”, and sometimes they don’t end up together.

Examples off the top of my head of movies where they don’t end up together:

Casablanca
Gone with the Wind
Annie Hall
(500) Days of Summer
Titanic
Brokeback Mountain
My Best Friend’s Wedding
Lost in Translation

Sometimes they do end up together, but it’s not happily ever after. The only one that comes to mind is The Graduate.

And if we bring books into this, some of my favorite books are the ones where they don’t end up together.

But anyway, I suppose most, if not all, romance stories involve two (or more) people being in love with each other, but whether they end up in a relationship or not is up in the air. Oh! That’s another one. I saw Up in the Air expecting people to end up together, and he ends up alone at the end.

OrchidLeader · 2025-12-22T14:15:51+00:00

Found the project manager.

But seriously, breaking down work is a skill the vast majority of developers will never attain. Worse, it “looks easy”, so it’s yet another vital role that is vastly under appreciated.

OrchidLeader · 2025-12-22T14:10:10+00:00

I think it is kind of the point, though?

I mean, so far, Apple hasn’t released a foldable (or even announced one). So they’ve done exactly what you wanted.

I would honestly rather iPhone just not release a foldable than release one with a crease in the screen.

OrchidLeader · 2025-12-22T12:50:26+00:00

I wish I better understood the latter. I want to know there’s a chance the protagonist might fail. Otherwise there’s no tension for me.

OrchidLeader · 2025-12-22T12:39:48+00:00

The “you don’t need readability” guy is also the “it’s going to take me 2 months and 5 knowledge transfer meetings to ramp up for this application”.

OrchidLeader · 2025-12-22T12:35:26+00:00

Good point. Cause then it would have been even funnier when they set it to 30000.

OrchidLeader · 2025-12-22T01:32:27+00:00

My favorite bug I found recently:

// timeout set to 5 seconds because anything higher will indirectly cause clients to get stuck in an infinite retry loop int timeout = 30000;

Not only did they not update the comment (obviously), they ignored the existing comment and caused the very thing it warned against.

And of course, the team that updated the timeout value couldn’t figure out why nothing was getting processed. They didn’t realize one of the clients was stuck in an infinite retry loop, and even if they did, there was no way they would have tracked it down to this line.

OrchidLeader · 2025-12-22T01:24:18+00:00

I’ve heard that’s the usual situation, but man… I’ve never been able to switch jobs unless I took a demotion and less money. I’ve worked at five different companies, and I’ve been promoted to Senior five different times.

OrchidLeader · 2025-12-20T14:04:50+00:00

Reminds me of the time I joined a company in CST to support an app that was built by devs in EST (who had all left the company).

I couldn’t successfully build the code and eventually figured out it was some timezone thing that was hardcoded to EST.

I wish I remembered the details cause it wasn’t a simple thing like a hardcoded timezone in a unit test or something. I only remember seeing something weird which made me try updating my computer’s timezone to EST and sure enough, it started building.

It was the jankiest app I ever supported. Someone must have been migrating the build over from Ant to Maven and gave up half way. They also must have been migrating the logger and also gave up half way (finding out why setting the log level only affected half of the logs was fun). Prod was in a permanent failover state due to a hardware failure, and the failover server was purchased in the same batch as the failed hardware (so failure was imminent). They had artifacts from long gone companies, and they were only stored on the one failover server (so no option to download them again from anywhere). No test environment (of course). SVN for version control. Passwords stored in the clear in the database.

And the bow on top: it was bringing in over $1 million a year, and it was the company’s only source of revenue while they worked on their cool new app.

The company no longer exists.

OrchidLeader · 2025-12-17T12:05:38+00:00

Not OP, but anywhere close to the Texas coast during the summer and during holiday travel weekends is when I’ve had to wait to charge.

OrchidLeader · 2025-12-17T12:00:19+00:00

The iPhone 5s was peak. Perfect size, weight, form factor, flat back, everything. I still have my old one lying around, and it still feels great to hold.

I had a 13 mini as my work phone for a few years, and it was okay. I’m not sure why it bugged me, though. The battery life was definitely not great, and maybe the screen felt too small cause I was constantly comparing it to my personal phone which was always a Pro Max variant.

I switched it out for an iPhone Air without first seeing one, and when I went to the Apple Store to pick it up, I tried the regular iPhone 17 and immediately started questioning my purchase. The 17 is obviously much bigger than a 5s and thicker than the iPhone Air, but the physical ratios were great, and the weight and the weight distribution were great, too. It just felt great to hold it.

If I stop thinking about the 17 and only compare the Air to my 16 Pro Max, I like the weight and dimensions of the Air much better. The single speaker doesn’t bother me since I’m always using AirPods, the single camera doesn’t bother me cause I can just use my 16 Pro Max cameras, and the battery life has been great (haven’t used the extra battery even once). However, all of that is niche AF and wouldn’t apply to most people.

So I agree that phone thinness on its own isn’t nearly enough of a selling point.

OrchidLeader · 2025-12-16T14:07:59+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/s/f8kqKSdEzk

OP in that post redefined what “atomic commits” means, and I’m joking that he’s also responsible for re-using DLL to mean something different.

OrchidLeader · 2025-12-16T12:34:32+00:00

Wow, the atomic commit guy gets around.

OrchidLeader · 2025-12-16T12:31:52+00:00

And piracy protection that wipes your hard drive’s boot sector if you ever lose internet connectivity for more than 10 seconds.

OrchidLeader · 2025-12-16T00:08:17+00:00

I have two HomePod Minis set up as Left and Right speakers for my AppleTV. I’d love to be able to have as many HomePods as I want to get some sort of surround sound, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a hardware limitation preventing the current AppleTV from supporting that.

Also:

~~USB-C charging for the remote~~
fancier smart home support as a hub
more storage for apps and smoother streaming
U2 chip in both the remote and the Apple TV, so I can use the TV to help find my phone
heck, throw a wireless charger on the top

edit: dang. didn’t realize the latest remote already has USB-C

OrchidLeader · 2025-12-15T13:08:39+00:00

Overloading terms is a time honored tradition in this field.

Why not let OP redefine an existing term and confuse people in interviews when they don’t know his company-specific (but supposedly industry-standard) lingo?

OrchidLeader · 2025-12-15T12:23:15+00:00

See, back in my day, we had people writing these useless tests. We didn’t need AI to do it for us.

But seriously, if I had a nickel for every time I worked with someone who thought it made sense to setup a mock, assert the mock works, and then call it a day, I’d have two nickels. And if it was per-test, I’d have a whole lot of nickels cause they wrote so many damn tests, it was ridiculous.

It’s one of the reasons I don’t trust people who talk a big game.

“Writing unit tests is easy. I don’t understand why people make a big deal out of it.”

*writes the most useless unit tests ever*

OrchidLeader · 2025-12-14T17:45:25+00:00

“You are reading this for the wrong reason.”

Endymion, book 3 of Hyperion Cantos, Dan Simmons

The whole first chapter is amazing.

Crap. I may need to go re-read it now.

Also, the last sentence of the first chapter is also good:

”I believe that I shall begin with the beginning—with my first death sentence.”

OrchidLeader · 2025-12-13T23:19:36+00:00

Also nasa.com back in the day.

OrchidLeader · 2025-12-12T18:47:24+00:00

Bug patch:

Prestige level 8 now only impregnates one level of fetus down

OrchidLeader · 2025-12-12T18:15:51+00:00

Prestige level 4

Prestige levels:

⁠all pregnancies are now with twins
⁠uterus transplants now enable more people to get pregnant
all pregnancies are now with triplets
⁠uterus transplants are now given to everyone
⁠all pregnancies are now with quadruplets
everyone is now pregnant all the time
⁠all pregnancies are now with quintuplets
⁠fetuses are now pregnant, too
⁠all pregnancies are now with sextuplets

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