JackbyDev
@JackbyDev@programming.dev
Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.
- Comment on Brainstorming a grift. 19 hours ago:
You want to try and grift people who are against snake oil?
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 23 hours ago:
It’s a thought experiment though, in the magical world where we could have all of humanity tied to rail road tracks by an omnipotent being, I don’t assume there to be a finite number of people.
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 1 day ago:
“double it and give it to the next person” was sort of a trend with street interview type content. Like “Do you want a cookie or double it and give it to the next person.” Then the second would be “Do you want two cookies or double it and give it to the next person?” Eventually someone takes the cookies. It wasn’t cookies necessarily, sometimes money, sometimes other trinkets, whatever.
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 1 day ago:
But I don’t know if I trust literally infinite people. It might be better to kill one. Because unless you believe all humans are 100% willing to never kill someone then you’re risking a number of deaths larger than 1. (Potentially much larger.)
- Comment on If God was real (just go with it), then how he's portrayed in the Bible might not even be how he actually is. 2 days ago:
What if I bred animals only to torture them. Would I be evil? Yes. I would. There’s no reason why a “creator and universe-sustaining God” can’t inherently be evil.
- Comment on If God was real (just go with it), then how he's portrayed in the Bible might not even be how he actually is. 2 days ago:
But when you look at things like canonization and other religions adding on (like Mormonism) it gets fuzzy. Yes, Christians believe that the Bible is the inspired word of God, but can you really be certain that each step of the process was 100% correct? You don’t think there’s any room for human error in canonization or translation?
- Comment on It's a bit ridiculous that our government would sooner use Discord than a federated social media alternative 2 days ago:
That’s insane lol.
- Comment on Why Trump hijacked the .gov domain 4 days ago:
Top level domain. “.com” “.gov” etc. are top level domains. The headline is slightly incorrect.
- Comment on What would community moderators want in an automod for the Fediverse? 4 days ago:
No, only top level comments specifically.
- Comment on What would community moderators want in an automod for the Fediverse? 4 days ago:
One thing I see a lot of instance specific meta communities that only allow top level comments from users if that instance. Auto removing those form other instances would be useful.
- Comment on What would community moderators want in an automod for the Fediverse? 4 days ago:
No, it’s impossible. The tech just isn’t there yet. We need AGI to be able to detect a string.
- Comment on The wall of this bathroom really intimidated me 4 days ago:
Please be joking.
- Comment on The Last Truly Custom Nintendo: A 3DS Retrospective 4 days ago:
Modern touch screens work well enough to not really require styluses to feel good though. So modern styluses feeling annoying isn’t as big of an issue for most uses.
- Comment on In franchises that establish a multiverse (ie the MCU or Star Trek) almost all fan fiction is technically canon compliant 4 days ago:
Not really, there’s sort of two types of multiverses. There are multiverses where the universes are separate but similar things and multiverses where branching timelines create new universes (and disgustingly ones that intermingle the two and muddy the concepts). If you’re writing about a specific universe in a multiverse that doesn’t strictly use the timeline branching model and you change things then you’re no longer “canon”.
Big quotes around canon because obviously fan made stuff isn’t canon, I just mean in the shower thought sense.
- Comment on Is Kagy web browser worth it? 4 days ago:
I’m not paying for a search engine. Duck Duck Go for everyday usage. Yandex when I’m looking for media.
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 5 days ago:
In the US right now, we’re seeing this unfold. With the talk about classifying transgender folks as nihilistic violent extremists, who fucking knows.
- Comment on xkcd #3163: Repair Video 5 days ago:
Or, another annoying one, you find a thread, solve it yourself, and can’t post because the thread is locked for whatever dumb reason. You make a new thread and it never gets traffic from search engines. Only the old one. So nobody ever solves the problem because some mod is worried about necroing, oh the horror.
- Comment on Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles 5 days ago:
Won’t someone please think of the random ass holding company that owns the rights to that old ass game nobody except for like three people want to play?
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 6 days ago:
“Robot, parse this statement, ‘this sentence is false’.” The robot explodes because it cannot understand a logical contradiction.
I swear, that’s what this argument sounds like to me. Also, I’m genuinely confused why people don’t think that, if we can simulate randomness with computers in our world with pseudo random number generators, why a higher reality wouldn’t be able to simulate what we view as true randomness with a pseudo random number generator or some other device we cannot even begin to comprehend.
Either this paper is bullshit or they’re talking about some sort of very specific thing that all these articles are blowing out of proportion.
I don’t believe we are in a simulation but I don’t believe this paper disproves it. Just like I don’t believe in god but I don’t believe the question “can god make a rock so big he can’t pick it up?” disproves god.
- Comment on Candles are the percent gift. Of the receiver doesn't like them they can set them on fire and remove the problem. 6 days ago:
Cats have spines but are bendy… Hmmm…
- Comment on Michael 1 week ago:
You can argue that enabled bad practices but it also enabled many good things in gaming.
- Comment on So...I feel like there are a lot of elephants in the room, could i get some help? 1 week ago:
This post is very rambley and I really don’t understand what you’re asking. If you mean things like basic life skills like laundry and stuff with money then there’s too many to list in a Lemmy comment in a succinct way. At times it sounds like you’re describing escaping an alt-right incel pipeline; if that’s the case then yeah, it’s still sort of difficult to answer “what you should have been taught” in a succinct way, and I don’t wanna assume that’s what you meant because it seems rude. I could be cheeky and say you should have learned to ask questions better, but that is really mean given the context that you seem to be going through a very tough time.
I’ll say this. You mentioned being in your late 20s. I’m 33 now. I remember through my 20s I consistently didn’t feel like an adult. I distinctly remember the first time I felt like an adult was when I was 28 years old. I don’t remember why, but I remember the thought entering my head again and I finally sort of thought, yeah, I feel like a real adult.
Your 20s are an odd time because you’re legally an adult and might even be living on your home but inevitably you’ll always have gaps in your experience with various things as a teenager as well as not having experienced many things adults consider to be universal adult experiences just yet. Know that a lot of people in their 20s feel this way even if they’re better at hiding it.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 1 week ago:
Nah, engineering wise you can’t verify if a man actually has taken a pill and the sad reality is that women get stuck with the child and abortion rights are under attack. It’s like trying to implement authorization without any way to verify that the user is actually authorized. You can’t just go on vibes alone.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 1 week ago:
Please do not eat the condom.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 1 week ago:
I do think that birth control pills having 1 week of sugar pills to force periods rather than 1 week of optional pills to allow skipping periods is pretty fucked up though. The term conspiracy is pretty intense though. But it’s super fucked.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 1 week ago:
I know a lot of people who take birth control pills to regulate their bodies rather than prevent pregnancy.
- Comment on Michael 1 week ago:
Counterpoint, you can categorize chess as a game and not a sport while still acknowledging it’s difficult and worthwhile.
- Comment on Michael 1 week ago:
I’ll bite. If you want to pick a singular thing to point at and say it’s ruined gaming you should be more upset about micro transactions, especially those in mobile gaming. We live in an era where so many people have a device that is physically more capable than the handheld gaming devices of the past but the entire mobile gaming market is just slop meant to be addictive and extract as much money from you as possible. Imagine a world where Nintendo was making mainline Pokémon games for phones. What if X, Y, Sun, and Moon weren’t made for the 3ds but for phones (or both).
- Comment on What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported? 1 week ago:
I was born in 1991. For me, it’s gotta be 9/11. I can’t really specifically remember anything from before that, and I was only 9 when it happened, so I didn’t really pay much attention to the news.
There was a time I was on the news because my grandfather got asked about something at the airport. I have no idea what it was or if it was before. But it certainly wasn’t major and either way I don’t remember the actual story that happened. If I had to guess it was something about asking people about airline delays, but that’s genuinely just a guess.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 1 week ago:
The comment said why not go open source, not why not go source available though.