JackbyDev
@JackbyDev@programming.dev
Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.
- Comment on They know I'm not cool, I know I'm not cool. Cool. 2 days ago:
Why would someone not act 100% rationally 100% of the time?
- Comment on frenly warnin 5 days ago:
Gee, I wonder if Aryansoldier1488 knows if 1488 is a dog whistle for Nazis? I’d hate for Aryansoldier to get caught up in this. It was probably a random number.
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 6 days ago:
This could be a good meme template.
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 6 days ago:
For me it was seeing people say that the character mechanics of Total War: Three Kingdoms were like a watered down version of CK. I hadn’t heard of it before. CK2 was the latest at the time and the UI in it is awful. Luckily CK3 came out soon.
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 6 days ago:
CK3 is really cool. It’s completely spoiled me on games like Civilization now. Being able to play as a person instead of some abstract concept of your empire is so fascinating to me. Things like worrying about how your child’s holdings will look once you die based on succession is fun.
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 6 days ago:
I don’t see any new posts since 7 months ago. (Unless my instance stopped federating.)
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 6 days ago:
You can’t say something like that without elaborating! How did it change you?
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 6 days ago:
I think Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was amazing. The only gripe I have is that the Switch just can’t handle it very well.
It’s hard to answer this because if you’d asked me 5 years ago my answer would be different (not just because TotK hadn’t released) because my tastes change.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 1 week ago:
This bit me before. It seems like some PlayStation game ports use those commands. Both Helldivers 2 and Death Stranding wouldn’t work for me because of this.
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 1 week ago:
They give Nazis a platform. I don’t watch it because of that. Plus I try to avoid rage bait content as much as I can.
- Comment on Why hasn't video quality improved much over the past ten years? 1 week ago:
Is that “real” uncompressed or using a lossless compression? Or are uncompressed video streams inherently losslessly compressed because they only show changes, not sending a full image every frame?
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 1 week ago:
There is probably sticker shock involved. Someone who gets a raise will see a new amount of taxes witheld and may be upset. It could even be they didn’t know what the amount taken out before taxes was.
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 1 week ago:
One of those rage bait YouTube channels had a young person who made that claim in a debate. Pictured is Sam Seder who was the debate opponent. He made this face at the camera.
- Comment on You better say "Thank You"! 1 week ago:
No, this is real, my parents sent it to me via Facebook.
- Comment on New Report Shows Working-Class Americans Live 7 Years Fewer Than Rich 1 week ago:
For fuck’s sake please stop robbing this man of his presumption of innocence.
- Comment on New Report Shows Working-Class Americans Live 7 Years Fewer Than Rich 1 week ago:
Surprised it’s only 7 tbh.
- Comment on Welp. 1 week ago:
I interpreted it as meaning lone words as in only a few here and there.
- Comment on Dunning-Kruger 1 week ago:
Tacology
- Comment on Dunning-Kruger 1 week ago:
Exactly. They just don’t care. They’re not necessarily ignorant and participating in good faith.
- Comment on Musk shares post that Hitler didn’t kill millions, public workers did. Union rages 1 week ago:
Jesus fucking Christ. This is actually fucking happening… Fuck.
- Comment on I wonder if the "money can't buy you happiness" people ever lived in a car. 1 week ago:
But by giving the poor money we’d be robbing them of their ability to reach self actualization by creatively solving their own problems! (/s obviously)
- Comment on Scarlett Johansson Wants Marvel Fans to Let Black Widow Go: ‘Let Her Have Her Hero Moment’ 1 week ago:
RDJ being Dr. Doom makes me think it’s just going to be Tony Stark “but what if he was evil” since Iron Man and Dr. Doom have relatively similar schticks. (Keyword: relatively. Nobody should read this and feel the need to tell me why they’re different. I only mean they’re both egotistical geniuses in metal armor.)
- Comment on Scarlett Johansson Wants Marvel Fans to Let Black Widow Go: ‘Let Her Have Her Hero Moment’ 1 week ago:
No idea what the plot is of this, haven’t consumed any version of it, but it feels pretty fucking stupid to respond to something about the skin color of the protagonist by suggesting they should also want a child sex scene. Like, what??
- Comment on How can a military buy fighter jets that the seller has kill switches for? 1 week ago:
Yes. Until pretty recently Java didn’t contain unlimited strength encryption algorithms by default because of this/not getting around to updating
en.wikipedia.org/…/Java_Cryptography_Extension
bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-7024850?focusedId=119…
I’m not gonna dig deeper, but it seems like the actual policy change was as late as 2011 based on the comment, but they didn’t get around to changing it for another few years.
- Comment on What is the point of the Nicole spam? 1 week ago:
Did you call dibs?
- Comment on Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys? 1 week ago:
The refusing in the statement I made is being done by god, not us. I’m asking if god refuses to do the opposite of what he did to Pharaoh to end modern day genocides since you believe it wasn’t robbing Pharaoh of his free will and you believe that free will is necessary for repentance.
- Comment on Are Autocracies more powerful than Democracies? 2 weeks ago:
How can you say “flawed due to its reliance on people” with a straight face? We are people. Anything we create will “rely on people” in some way. Even if we make some machine to rule us, if it messes up, well, “it’s flawed because it was made by people.”
Unless you mean something different, which could very well be the case. Maybe you mean that democracy relies as people as a group while autocracy relies on an individual person or something?
- Comment on Are Autocracies more powerful than Democracies? 2 weeks ago:
This is an extremely nuanced topic with thousands of mitigating factors affecting it in the real world and subjective definitions about what “power” means. “Doomed to fail?” What sort of a loaded question is this? Isn’t every civilization “doomed” to fail given the ultimately finite nature of life? If a democracy does falls to an autocratic uprising or autocratic, was it “doomed” to be so?
This question is just way way way way way too broad and to expect any sort of narrow or succinct answer. I don’t believe we can really say any form of government is more “powerful” than others or that any are “doomed” to fail (or we can be reductive and say they all are).
- Comment on Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys? 2 weeks ago:
So there’s a certain amount of spiritual conviction god could give genociders to convince them to stop while it still being considered free will but refuses?
- Comment on Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys? 2 weeks ago:
But god can force Pharaoh to sin by hardening his heart to Moses’s pleas arbitrarily lengthening the Israelites’ suffering and robbing a human of his free will in the process.