JackbyDev
@JackbyDev@programming.dev
Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.
- Comment on Why do people refer to characters in movies by their actor's names? 1 day ago:
Go the Oceans 13 (12?) route and just be like “You look like Julia Roberts.”
- Comment on ‘We were bored of traditional fantasy cliches’: inside Playground Games’ 10-year effort to revive Fable 2 days ago:
Sometimes subverting the cliche becomes the cliche to stop repeating.
- Comment on Why do people refer to characters in movies by their actor's names? 2 days ago:
Unless a movie says a character’s name A LOT I will forget it. I’m so so bad with names. But I hear actors’ names all the time. It’s that simple. If I remembered the characters’ names, I’d use them. I suppose also for more obscure movies that I like, I’d probably use the actors’ names if I think other people don’t know the movie.
- Comment on What happened to NFTs and what where they in retro spec? 2 days ago:
Yes, but that’s generally a bad thing that the majority of people want to avoid. If someone controls over half of the mining pool then you have bigger issues.
- Comment on I will not be opening for Ed Sheeran 6 days ago:
I have stepped out of the tour as well.
- Comment on Blizzard is reviving StarCraft as an open-world shooter, but it'll be a long wait 1 week ago:
Mm, so the only thing that can make something original is the playable factions. Noted. Indeed a weird hill to die on.
- Comment on Blizzard is reviving StarCraft as an open-world shooter, but it'll be a long wait 1 week ago:
10k? Well that’s pretty original, because I’ve never heard of it.
But on a more serious note, it’s just too reductive to say “there is nothing original in StarCraft because it feels like Warhammer 40k.” All media is inspired by media that came before it. Lion King is similar to Hamlet, does that mean there’s nothing original in it?
- Comment on How did he do that? 1 week ago:
Nobody ignored it, we saw it, chuckled, and continued.
- Comment on How did he do that? 1 week ago:
People do this shit all the time. In that infamous meme showing Ariana Grande getting darker skinned they did the same thing.
- Comment on Blizzard is reviving StarCraft as an open-world shooter, but it'll be a long wait 1 week ago:
It feels pretty reductive to say something doesn’t have original ideas. Pretty much every story has been told in one way or another at this point in history, especially if we get really reductive about it. It doesn’t mean things can’t be interesting or unique.
- Comment on I remember 1 week ago:
I’m not saying they didn’t have more air than chips then, I’m saying as a specific Internet meme it felt more like a 2017 thing.
- Comment on I remember 1 week ago:
I really like the pic you posted, wonder if I share it, would you mind? I know a couple people online who would like it, please reply.
- Comment on I remember 1 week ago:
I don’t specifically remember lays bags being empty a big joke in 2012, but I wouldn’t be surprised. I do remember the rest of these.
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 1 week ago:
I’m not began either, but it feels very strange for non-vegans to dictate to vegans what is and is not vegan and who is and is not a vegan.
- Comment on Anon comes into some money 3 weeks ago:
Ramen noodle
- Comment on Anon has seen it all before 3 weeks ago:
Maybe get off Internet Explorer and you’ll understand memes from 7 years ago.
- Comment on Anon has seen it all before 3 weeks ago:
It only has one memory cell, but we’ve fully implemented real computation
- Comment on Anon has seen it all before 3 weeks ago:
Sunar System
- Comment on Anon has seen it all before 3 weeks ago:
Why did you post a picture of a random empty background?
- Comment on Not Enough Hate 5 weeks ago:
Don’t you know? Click bait headlines have to say “someone”
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 5 weeks ago:
The difference here is that I can reasonably believe the quarter second of spray being an accurate serving, but nobody has just one tictac.
- Comment on How hopeless is getting a job with a CS degree? 5 weeks ago:
It’s honestly hard to say. It’s very impressive what AI coding can do, especially in the past year, but all AI companies are not making a profit. They’re effectively subsidized by investors. They’re focused on growth. At some point they’re gonna need to make a profit, they cannot continually operate at a loss and focus on growth. In fact, when Microsoft started charging properly it was such a massive deal that they called it the tokenpocalypse.
Honestly, I hate to say it, and I’m not trying to be a tech bro, but I think AI is here to say. What exactly it looks like long term, it’s hard to say. I can say this though, knowing how to program will make you a better vibe coded (I feel dirty saying that seriously). So even if AI becomes the norm, you’ll be better positioned if you know what you’re doing.
When things turn though, it’s impossible to say. It could be in the next year, could be like five years out. It could be that when you’re done with your four year degree, they’re still out here doing this “AI is gonna fix everything and we don’t need junior devs” song and dance.
TL;DR: AI is not profitable now so will get more expensive meaning they’ll have to use it less. Either way, knowing how to program without AI will make you better at programming with AI.
- Comment on An impossible choice 5 weeks ago:
Always take the lump sum!
- Comment on You Used To Be Cool. Pfft, Sell Out 5 weeks ago:
My mom was weirdly prudish in the '90s and early '00s, I don’t really know why. Like she wouldn’t let me watch Dexter’s Lab because she thought it was gross or something? Idk. Weird time.
- Comment on You Used To Be Cool. Pfft, Sell Out 5 weeks ago:
My mom told me never to click “I’m feeling lucky” because she thought it had something to do with porn because it’s a phrase people would say about sex.
- Comment on not again! 🤦♀️ 5 weeks ago:
They’re really gonna make me buy Sex 2 after I paid for all the cosmetics for Sex 1?
- Comment on success 5 weeks ago:
This but unironically.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 5 weeks ago:
AI has gotten scary good over the past year.
- Comment on Would an LLM AI model trained wholly on consenting open source projects with a license requiring all derivative works be open source licensed still be problematic? 1 month ago:
Barring environmental concerns, no, I don’t think so.
