JackbyDev
@JackbyDev@programming.dev
Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.
- Comment on Why do people say "quote unquote something" and not "quote something unquote" ? 3 hours ago:
Archipelago.
- Comment on Why do people say "quote unquote something" and not "quote something unquote" ? 3 hours ago:
Because “quite unquote” is done for a laugh typically and “quite unquote” sounds funnier and more pleasing to the ear.
- Comment on Will Firefox die for good if Google is forced to sell off Chrome? 3 hours ago:
Currently, Google pays Firefox’s bill by having them set their default search engine to Google.
This will no longer be when Chrome is in the hands of another party. DOJ is currently advocating for this forced sellout.
Why does Alphabet not controlling Chrome mean Alphabet would suddenly stop paying Mozilla to make Google Search the default search in Firefox? That’s totally unrelated.
(Saying Alphabet instead of Google to help differentiate between Google and its products.)
- Comment on Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool. 5 hours ago:
I remember reading that when people have racist reactions like what you’re describing it’s like a different part of their brain triggers and then their frontal lobe (for higher logic) sort of suppresses it. I really wish I could remember more about this but I definitely remember learning about this in psychology. Something like when a baby sees someone of a skin color they haven’t seen before they get nervous, but when they’re older different parts shut it down. The memory is very fuzzy.
- Comment on Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool. 5 hours ago:
Surprisingly, it never works.
The Holocaust happened and Trump got elected. If those two things don’t count as examples of this hateful strategy working then idk what does.
- Comment on Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool. 5 hours ago:
That’s a good point. And political movements like trans exclusionary LGB are there to piggy back off of.
- Comment on Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool. 5 hours ago:
Because of tropes like tvtropes.org/pmwiki/…/CreepyCrossdresser from movies like Silence of the Lambs, Dressed to Kill, and Psycho. It puts the idea of men dressing like women as a means of tricking women to attack them into the collective unconscious.
Because Trump spent $19 million on transphobic ads during football games in battleground states. Because they need a Boogeyman to rile up their base.
It doesn’t have to make sense. You might as well be asking how can the KKK hate people of color or how can Nazis hate Jewish people.
- Comment on Bro 😭😭 10 hours ago:
It’s fun to take pics with my friends and share online.
- Comment on Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die." 1 day ago:
I chalk it up to either a working clock being weird every now and then or prompt engineers trolling.
- Comment on If Open Source is so great... 1 day ago:
Fork me, baby 🫦
- Comment on [Official Art] Big Daddy Early Designs - Bioshock 2 days ago:
I definitely remember they had drugs to make them affectionate of and protectors of the Little Sisters. With things like concept art it’s hard to know how early in the process it was. Big Daddy’s could’ve been nothing more than “boss type enemy with old timey diving suit.” They could’ve been concepting their origins and purpose as well. The “guns” the middle and left are holding could also look like a tool. It could be something that serves as both. The mech suit from Aliens comes to mind, which was essentially the equivalent of fighting a bear with a forklift lol. Or maybe something like the rail spike gun from Fallout is a better comparison.
It could also be that they planned on each Big Daddy being a little different, or at least more different types than there were. I just double checked the wiki and there were two in the first game: the Bouncer (the iconic one from the cover) and Rosie. Also, it’s saying the original candidates for the Big Daddy program were criminals and dissidents. The idea that in the right wing dystopia of Rapture they’d force invalids into the Big Daddy program to make them “useful” isn’t terribly far fetched.
Maybe it was scrapped because there weren’t many spaces where wheelchair bound enemies made sense.
- Comment on Amazon is allegedly canceling orders for the "Megalopolis" Blu-ray release. 2 days ago:
:( I was actually thinking about buying it. This isn’t even a joke
- Comment on Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die." 2 days ago:
- Comment on [Official Art] Big Daddy Early Designs - Bioshock 2 days ago:
Loving the salad tongs on the third.
- Comment on [Official Art] Big Daddy Early Designs - Bioshock 2 days ago:
I don’t know all the BioShock lore, but maybe that concept art was meant for a hypothetical version where they use disabled people as bid daddy’s. (I don’t remember where they canonically come from.)
- Comment on They're called leaves for a reason. 2 days ago:
I really fucked up my lawn by putting red clover down in addition to white. Red clover is perineal and grows tall and falls flat on its side. It decays into this horrible straw like shit. I hate it. Horrible horrible decision.
Because it’s sort of fucked for a few years I guess, I’ve been a lot more hands off with leaves. Because hey, even if it kills off some of the stuff there then that’s fine by me. I think I only mowed once this year. I only blow leaves off the driveway and onto the yard.
This summer I’ll see the fruits of my labor. I’m really curious to see if there are substantially more fireflies.
- Comment on They're called leaves for a reason. 2 days ago:
If you see bumblebees then you know they’re waking up.
Depending on where you live you may need to be more perceptive. In the southeast US what most people think are bumblebees are actually carpenter bees.
- Comment on Frog's Gift 2 days ago:
Wait until they hear how much military aviation spends on screws.
- Comment on Currently happening 3 days ago:
I think the times we befriend loners and it’s goes positively are easier to forget than the times we go out of our way to try to include someone only to find out that they’re toxic to be around.
- Comment on Currently happening 3 days ago:
Damn, wish the racists at my high school had no friends.
- Comment on YouTube devs be like 4 days ago:
Yeah, especially when you consider that if you’re nostalgic for any time on YouTube prior to 2015 it wasn’t profitable at the time.
- Comment on Currently happening 4 days ago:
I’m copying this from a comment I made on a thread about ghosting people.
I ghosted someone I knew on Discord. They were exceptionally clingy. Like message me four times a day, every day, without me messaging in between. Message me the second I get online. It was so annoying. Constantly asking me if I was mad at them after I didn’t answer them immediately. Even after I told them I wasn’t mad and not to think I am if I don’t answer. I told them so many times that the only thing that was annoying me was them thinking I was annoyed when I don’t answer immediately. Just so so pouty all the time. I couldn’t handle it.
I took a break from Discord for other reasons and when I came back I just ignored them. I couldn’t handle it anymore.
From the way other people talked to them on servers and things they said, I get the feeling this is a common pattern with them. They start to make some friends, then get super clingy and sobby if you don’t answer them right away and people get frustrated and stop talking to them. Which sucks, but, I’d told them so so so many times exactly what they were doing that was annoying me and they never stopped. It’s so infuriating for someone to just be so sad about something and for you to try and tell them in no uncertain terms “I’m not mad at you, but when you think I am mad because I don’t answer right away it makes me annoyed. Just stop that. That’s all I’m upset about.”
- Comment on Thinking of starting a little beehaw minehut server for minecraft what version should I go with? (java) 4 days ago:
Infdev
- Comment on Anon tries to understand his coworker 4 days ago:
Facts:
- Anon intended for this to be a date.
- Anon never said this was a date.
- Anon never asked if she was single.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand his coworker 5 days ago:
Context matters: they’re coworkers.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 5 days ago:
It might have been different back in the day
It was very different back in the day.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release 5 days ago:
A number followed by a period is Markdown for an ordered list. To make it easier, the renderer always starts from 1 and counts properly. So on your app it is probably rendering this as an ordered list with one item instead of as two sentences.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release 5 days ago:
The physics puzzles, whole still functioning fine, feel extremely goofy today. It’s easy to forget how revolutionary they were. I’m not saying the game shouldn’t have them or anything, but some are just so silly lol.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 5 days ago:
No it’s about nuclear waste and where to store it,
Is this video inaccurate? This isn’t meant as a gotcha comment. youtu.be/4aUODXeAM-k
- Comment on Anon tries to understand his coworker 5 days ago:
This was in November 2023. It may have just been that day or it may have changed since then.