JackbyDev
@JackbyDev@programming.dev
Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
While drunkenness isn’t a blanket excuse for behavior, I don’t believe it’s inherently fair to say we are our true selves while drunk. Alcohol affects our reasoning, it doesn’t merely remove filters.
- Comment on If you lose your memories, are "you" dead? If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still "your relative/friend"? What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories? 2 days ago:
Well, you’d be interested to know that people with amnesia and cannot form new memories still become accustomed to people are are friendly around them despite not knowing who they are or why they feel friendly. It’s in a different part of the brain. Also some forms of muscle memory are literally stored in your muscles.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 3 days ago:
I loved it, and don’t take this as a dig because tons of games had this problem. It was one of the first games in played where environments were fully destructible. Trees? Nah. Trees are invulnerable to everything, including literal bunker buster bombs.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 3 days ago:
I think I need a band aid.
You want me to throw my shoe?
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 3 days ago:
Jak and Daxter as well as Ratchet and Clank are both fun series. Jak was always weird in emulators for me, but maybe it works now.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 6 days ago:
I don’t think all women are perfect (and never said such), but this post is 100% a fake screenshot that’s misogynistic rage bait.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 6 days ago:
These girls are predators, and they tried to treat him like a chump
You’ve been successfully baited by a fake screenshot and are displaying misogyny.
- Comment on Crap, not again! 1 week ago:
I don’t print like this.
- Comment on In this essay... 1 week ago:
Lambda calculus be like
- Comment on Halloween is coming up, folks. So here's your third idea for a group costume 1 week ago:
Beware the groove!
- Comment on Crap, not again! 1 week ago:
Not saying it’s bad or not, it’s just a bad comparison. It’s implying it looks like crap, but the alternative is not what’s on the left. The alternative is what’s on the left with no blooms or leaves.
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 1 week ago:
If I’d known that I would’ve bought it years earlier.
- Comment on Crap, not again! 1 week ago:
I don’t like aggressive pruning but it’s not done while they’re in bloom. Mine is taking over the sidewalk so I need to do this, but it’s also not flowering or even has leaves at the moment.
- Comment on Being a dude sucks 1 week ago:
My hearing is way better than my wife’s so I typically just know what sounds are. But they got me in sight, I can’t find jack shit. Which is funny because my eyesight is actually better, I’m just bad at spotting.
- Comment on Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out. 1 week ago:
Ermmm actually you “just believe” the earth is round. /s /most obvious s
- Comment on Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out. 1 week ago:
an lider
- Comment on Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out. 1 week ago:
Yeah it’s so dumb. Cats obviously don’t think the things over ten times their size that walk on a different amount of legs are the same as them.
Further, another “fun fact” I see a lot (equally questionable) is that cats meow only to communicate with humans, not cats. But that’s mutually exclusive with cats thinking humans are the same as them.
- Comment on Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out. 1 week ago:
I don’t buy this because cats will react totally differently to cats than people. Regardless of posture. If my cat sees someone walking down the street she doesn’t get angry. If my cat sees a cat outside she’s already on the defense.
- Comment on Anon makes games 1 week ago:
I remember after I left the movie as a teenager with my parents two older dudes were bickering about whether poor people in our actual world are able to escape poverty or not if they work hard.
- Comment on Anon makes games 1 week ago:
I don’t see the problem with that balance. You shouldn’t be hoarding cheese as an adventurer for healing or for selling. Something like a potion should be used for healing and should be appropriately expensive.
That said, I agree gameplay is more important and economic simulation, I just don’t think the example was the best. It’s already off that in games like Skyrim we collect random trinkets until we can’t carry anything else and sell it all to any random shop keeper. It’s weird and, to be honest, not actually fun. (Mildly hot take.) Finding and selling things that are actually rare is fine. Like weapons, gems, etc.
Because as an adventurer you’re not a peasant. You’re an adventurer. It’s a high risk high reward profession that’s difficult to get into.
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 1 week ago:
I don’t think about that stuff. If it’s a game or movie involving killing I suspend my disbelief. It’s only annoying when they suddenly do care about it.
- Comment on whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders? 1 week ago:
It’s sadly a common thing. Something gets removed temporarily and people realize they like not having to deal with it better than the perceived benefits it offers.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 1 week ago:
Sure! Happy to talk about it. I was never a fan of the crypto but you can disable it so that’s not my problem. My problem is that a while back they added affiliate information to links you clicked so that they got money. To me, something a browser should do is go to links you click on as you click on them and not mess with them (apart from privacy/security things). It’s a huge loss of trust.
Apart from that, I view all Chromium based browsers negatively nowadays because I don’t want to give Google de facto control of web standards. Chromium has a monopoly on browsers, basically. Especially since even Microsoft Edge is Chromium based now. The ad blocking changes were part of this, but just in general. I don’t think one company should just be able to make a change and have everyone passively adopt it because they’re downstream consumers of it. And yes, Brave is Chromium based.
- Comment on nostalgia 1 week ago:
I thought the one on the right was AI since it “went viral” recently. But maybe it’s older than I thought.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 2 weeks ago:
Most workplaces I’ve been at let me pick, but one did not let me use Firefox (only Chrome or Safari).
Weirdly one place didn’t block things but Brave wouldn’t install because the installer was actually a downloader and I couldn’t set it to use the corporate proxy. (Also don’t hate me, I don’t use Brave anymore and am not a fan, this was back in 2019.)
- Comment on How could I order a package without my parents finding it? 2 weeks ago:
There’s no way to guarantee a delivery date so there’s no way to guarantee your parents won’t be home. Getting a PO box might work.
But I just wanna say I think what you’re trying to do is a bad idea. Not judging, just don’t want you to get in trouble.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 weeks ago:
Yes. Ceres was considered a planet when discovered in 1801 and around the 1950s began to be classified as an asteroid. It is now considered a dwarf planet like Pluto. It’s the largest thing in the asteroid belt but is still sort of planet shaped.
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 2 weeks ago:
The great filter turned out to be an atmosphere fire. We’re lucky we got nitrogen.
- Comment on Steady 2 weeks ago:
Still better to take the standard deduction for most people.
- Comment on Steady 2 weeks ago:
Consider that the other patients that didn’t successfully bind may have had worse numbers. (Idk if those were shown in the movie.)