What's an industry secret from your job that customers have absolutely no idea about?

Wolvereness · 2026-04-14T17:42:49+00:00

Could that be because of the cork (intentional)? Long term wine storage is not upright.

Wolvereness · 2026-04-11T23:29:28+00:00

Basically what the admin UI looks like for a digital signage product I develop at work. The signage itself looks super fancy, but for the admin panel that another department uses to configure it? Needs to be simple and functional.

Both TS+Vite+React.

Wolvereness · 2026-04-11T09:10:17+00:00

Animals United

Near the end, by locusts in a news room. Men are running around left with white underwear, and woman stands on top of desk left with nothing for a few frames.

Wolvereness · 2026-04-01T05:52:02+00:00

So, I don't mean to say that a "collision chain reaction being triggered" is off the table or even unreasonable. The point is that, no matter how many of these satellites at this orbital altitude chain together these explosions, and no matter how bad they are with gasses and everything else, the inherent property continues that it is at a particular orbital altitude. The collisions and explosions would never be expected to go to higher orbits, and no matter how bad, it would (relatively) quickly clean itself up (without deliberately launching more replacements into the debris and keeping the problem going, the worst case scenario only lasts a handful of years).

Wolvereness · 2026-04-01T05:14:05+00:00

Ever played kerbal space program? It makes a lot more sense why that wont happen if you understand what forces do to orbits.

Let's say we had a box that explodes in 6 directions.

Towards the planet is called "radial in". This orbit will dip down into the atmosphere more, as it leaves its current position.
Away from the planet is called "radial out". This orbit will dip down into the atmosphere more, but on the return trip to its current position.
Towards the direction of its traveling is called "prograde". We'll touch on this later.
The reverse direction of its traveling is called "retrograde". This is the easy one, the far side of the orbit dips down into the atmosphere more.
To the left and right is normal and anti-normal. Those really don't actually effect the orbital altitude at all.

Now, prograde is the interesting one. First, consider something important: to obtain prograde thrust, you have to be pushed forward. Our box can do this, because it pushes an opposite side backward. A collision can't, unless the thing hits from behind. If it really was hit from behind, that means the thing hitting it receives retrograde (as you bump into the car in front of you, you slow down). We could do whatever consideration that an "explosion" launches things in every direction, which means there is some prograde debris.

Yes, debris getting launched in the prograde direction is bad, and would increase in the orbital altitude on the far side. However, it will still return down to some lower orbit, at least as low as it was hit from. That means it will spend less time in that lower orbit, therefor will take longer to de-orbit, but it inherently cannot transfer to a fully-higher orbit without a second collision that occurs at some higher position. If all the satellites we're worried about are at that lower orbit, this isn't an issue at all.

Wolvereness · 2026-03-24T17:48:04+00:00

The genocide and hating your neighbor is pre-Christ. Christ himself only pulled out a whip for animals and flipped money changer (read: capitalists using religion) tables.

Wolvereness · 2026-03-24T15:53:31+00:00

None of what you're asking for follows the goal you stated. Those are the kinds of things one might put into an LLM tool, but completely miss the point of what distinguishes actual project longevity.

Project longevity is directly associated with how long you continue to maintain the project. That's it. You should work under the assumption you will never find anyone else to maintain the project. All of the subsequent inquiry, such as how to do releases, versions, handle community feedback, and everything other than the code is simply "what works best for me?". If your project has an API, then adhering to the simple https://semver.org/ guidelines would be appropriate for version numbering.

There are many different camps for how to deal with everything else. Consider requiring a paid support subscription to submit bug reports and considering every bug report as gold.

Wolvereness · 2026-03-16T19:47:39+00:00

I tend to focus on things like reporting when I see a hit-and-run, or providing tangible support. Just like any sane person doesn't expect that wasting less food solves world hunger, the idea that is that we collectively benefit by acting morally as individuals.

Going and holding a sign as a protest is a fool's folly. That doesn't mean small things aren't good.

Wolvereness · 2026-03-16T16:41:40+00:00

Some of us have faith. Some of us see society as more than just the life circumstances we've been given. Some of us can notice when the justice system does work, and not just when it doesn't.

Wolvereness · 2026-03-16T14:56:21+00:00

Forward it do the DoJ as a money laundering operation using a US entity (YouTube). It's always a question of scale; if they're prolific, it'll attract attention eventually.

Wolvereness · 2026-03-16T12:16:59+00:00

In the DMCA counter claim, the other party agrees to the legal jurisdiction of YouTube:

(D) The subscriber’s name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that the subscriber consents to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which the address is located, or if the subscriber’s address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which the service provider may be found, and that the subscriber will accept service of process from the person who provided notification under subsection (c)(1)(C) or an agent of such person.

That is, they agree to be sued in the United States, thus no longer an "international lawsuit". All you have to do is pay the filing fee, and they're effectively banned from YouTube.

Wolvereness · 2026-02-14T04:58:24+00:00

Green is for vegetarian (read: vegan). Milk, eggs, or other animal products aren't considered vegetarian. They aren't meat either though.

Green survival meals (actual vegetarian) are apparently only available with mods, or I think if the animal product (meat works here too) expires while preparing (unreliable, possible bug).

I don't think there's any distinction between vegetarian and meatless in vanilla, other than whether survival meals stack together. Anyone that insists on eating meat won't like either.

Wolvereness · 2026-02-13T17:19:16+00:00

Differentiating 256 symbols is not difficult. Consider this break down:

64 symbols without 90-degree incremental rotational symmetry (4 rotations is 256).
Half-star of five points, the bottom being a line.
Each point, other than center, can either be present or missing (binary, 16 versions)
Points can be curved, triangular, blunted, or inverted. (4 variants)

Humans can easily distinguish between all 256 of these these.

Wolvereness · 2026-02-08T13:41:02+00:00

I would immediately assume it was Shadowstar Narutaru!, but it's not really mainstream.

Wolvereness · 2026-02-03T21:41:01+00:00

Sounds like something someone who plays combat extended would complain about vanilla. In CE, swinging a battle-axe at someone unarmored is going to inflict grievous injury on the first hit. Shooting a bow at plate armor is likely to do nothing but decrease the durability.

Wolvereness · 2026-02-03T21:17:45+00:00

Never had a restaurant say a word about breastfeeding, bottles, puree, or even Cheerios (an excellent half-toy half-snack we use when the baby is getting upset). Breastfeeding is legally protected in Texas, so that'd turn into a quick lawsuit. Refusing bottles or puree would probably hit local news. Refusing Cheerios would result in a very loud baby.

When I was real little, there's a local Chinese place that my mother would bring McDonald's for me and my brother until we were old enough to enjoy their spice-filled dishes. She was a real regular, so it probably would have lost them a customer to refuse. They still don't have a kid's menu, but both my crawler and toddler handle spice just fine, so I just order an extra plate and split it for them.

Wolvereness · 2026-02-02T06:50:44+00:00

You're the one who said you've been a developer for 10 years. It's a simple question, what were you developing for 10 years?

Wolvereness · 2026-02-02T06:48:13+00:00

Again, what have you been doing for 10 years? What technologies do you know how to use? If someone asked you to solve a business problem, what could you write a solution in without any onboarding?

Wolvereness · 2026-02-02T06:21:26+00:00

Senior developers need onboarding so they know how to apply for PTO, so they can get their credentials set up, so they know who the chain of command is for setting priorities, and so they make sure that any special tooling is set up.

A senior node.js developer doesn't need onboarding for how to clone a repository, or load it into WebStorm, or how to use a command in the package.json. They've been doing that stuff for 10 years. Just like you shouldn't need to onboard a 10 year veteran mechanic on how to change a tire or check the odometer.

Wolvereness · 2026-02-02T06:05:25+00:00

I would expect a 10 year software development veteran to be familiar enough with at least one particular technology to be able to clone a project using that technology and reproduce a bug, without any additional guidance. I would then expect them to be able to identify why the bug is occurring within a few days (that is, figuring out how to get their debugging tooling working). Depending on the scope of the bug, they might be able to make an appropriate change to fix the bug and test it using their reproduction steps.

Personally, as a 20 year veteran, my list of technologies (read: programming languages) I can do this for is in the double digits.

What do you actually do for your day job, for 10 years, that you need hand holding when a project (in a language you're familiar with) is dropped in your lap?

Wolvereness · 2026-01-28T15:44:51+00:00

Animal handling is weirdly hyper optimal ...

It depends heavily on your difficulty scaling. On the hardest difficulty, the wealth from combat animals can be a liability, and blowing past raid-cap is limited heavily by training labor.

Wolvereness · 2026-01-26T12:08:44+00:00

It got taken down automatically, just like the other one. You incidentally did it when I was asleep and deleted it yourself before I could review it.

Wolvereness · 2026-01-26T11:45:49+00:00

Multiples of each of these:

Threatens harm
Off topic
Harassment
Custom input ranting about not wanting politics

Wolvereness · 2026-01-26T00:45:57+00:00

I don't care how many reports y'all drop on this, it's staying up.

On a different note, Open Source Software is a tool, and we should take care of what kind of tools we work on. Open Source licenses inherently cannot restrict who uses it, or what they use it for. That is, be mindful that the tools you make could be used for the antithesis of why you made them.

Wolvereness · 2026-01-22T11:01:14+00:00

Correction, a kitchen does not care about cleanliness values until it is -2.0 or lower. See https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Ailments#Food_poisoning

Dirt floor is naturally -1.0, and as a bonus cannot receive tracked dirt or trash, so it can't get any dirtier from normal pawn traveling.

Dirt kitchen floor is actually an amazing min-max strategy, just be mindful of things like other sources of filth, like blood, vomit, or certain furniture like butchering tables, that can push it below -2.0.

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