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JackbyDev

@ JackbyDev @programming.dev

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Any pronouns. 33.

Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.

I'm using a new phone keyboard, please forgive typos.

  • Klarna for rent

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  • It's probably like 98% every other week/twice a month, 1% monthly, and 1% weekly.

  • Klarna for rent

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  • Given that those fees are typically meant to cover processing fees and credit cards typically offer rewards because they effectively give you a cut of the processing fee this would make sense.

  • Me while waiting for a passable alternative

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  • That's amazing. I'm gonna tell my mom that, she'll love it.

  • What bothers me...

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  • I suppose you could view it like that lol. I'm not sure if modern video formats found a way to compress audio and video together. My guess is not because they're so inherently different. Films (like ya know, movies on film) had the audio on the film besides the frames.

  • What bothers me...

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  • The signals were not coupled, at least not in that way, and at least in NTSC. None of the bandwidth of the audio signal overlaps with the video signal. In fact, the audio signal was just a standard FM signal that you could tune into with a radio.

    Maybe in those days they just played a loud noise that didn't actually replace the sound and that was cheaper than setting something up with bandpass filters to mute it for a moment.

  • Me while waiting for a passable alternative

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  • The thing is that Discord is sort of like three or four things all in one and it's really difficult to find a good replacement that does them all while still having a nice userbase.

  • Me while waiting for a passable alternative

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  • This is the part where my mom would mention party lines.

    In some rural areas there was something like not every house had a unique phone number, but as a side effect you could just pick up the phone and talk to all the people on that same party line at once.

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  • Thanks. When I see it in the future I will leave a comment about it.

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  • On the viewer's side or creator's side?

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  • I really dislike the sound they use for censoring. It's so annoying. Plus, why make it so loud? I think they genuinely do it to make it seem worse and grab your attention.

    Another thing I hate is when the subtitles are censored but not the audio. That's actually pretty ableist if you think about it. They should match. If the audio is censored, censor the subtitles. If the audio is uncensored, don't censor the subtitles. It infantilizes people who are hard of hearing as if they can't handle a swear.

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  • Identity documents submitted to our vendor partners are deleted quickly— in most cases, immediately after age confirmation.

    Define "quickly" and why is it not always immediately after confirmation?

  • 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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  • That joke is NSFW, please present facial verification and ID now or you will be banned and reported to the authorities!

  • 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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  • One of my Discord friends has a stalker and can't get anything but automated messages.

  • 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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  • Guilded went to Roblox-only in 2025. I'd never heard of it until someone else mentioned it as an alternative.

  • 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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  • ☝️🤓 Discord said they're going to delete the data!

    The "someone" is referring to Discord, not you.

  • Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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  • Yes, that's the one small silver lining one the pile of bullshit this is. Plus you won't need to do it multiple times anymore.

    It comes down to is Discord really deleting it once they're done and not training on the facial scans.

  • What additional concepts should I learn before starting to learn rust?

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  • Disclaimer: I am not a rust developer, but I am a professional developer with over ten years experience.

    I think folks telling you things like "you should learn X language before Y language" are not giving you the best advice. I often understand their arguments. The advice is typically "don't learn X high level language before Y low level one." But if we need to start lower, where would that advice end? Must someone really understand transistors before writing hello world in Python? No! Absolutely not.

    Learning any programming language will make you better at all programming languages. There is no perfect starting place. There is no bad starting place.

    Think about it like this. Someone tells you before learning to drive a car with automatic transmission you should learn manual. They say it'll make you appreciate the automatic transmission more and that it's easier to go from manual to automatic than from automatic to manual. Well, a more relevant question is do you plan to ever drive a manual on a normal basis. If the answer is no, you don't plan on ever using it apart from learning how to, why bother? If you ever need to learn it, you can learn it. You'll be better at driving by then and can focus on shifting gears without having to struggle to also focus on all the rest of the driving things you do (like staying in the lane, going the right speed not hitting people, etc.)

    If you only want to learn C just so you better appreciate things in other languages, don't bother. Learn the language you want to use. If you want to use C, go for it! There's nothing wrong with it. A lot of folks want to learn both Rust and C because they want to learn both and stick their toes in everything. That's fine too! Just don't feel obligated because you think it's the best way forward.

  • I'm In Danger!

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  • Oooh if you want the actual look with an animal sketch, do one of that orangutan trying to use a hammer and nails.

  • We mourn our craft

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  • It's hard to paint it in broad strokes, but yeah that was part of it. The one that really comes to mind for me is this thing called ilog which tried to map phrases in English to code (sort of like Gherkin does for tests, but I actually like Gherkin). It effectively hid very important logic for how the system worked in this really weird layer that you had to use a special IDE for that was super difficult to get working properly. I remember that seeing the text descriptions was sort of easy but seeing what actually happened was really difficult. There was a view that would actually give you something that was like code but it was just too difficult to get to. Even then, it was something generated, not something you could edit.

    I've sort of thought about this a lot because it's fascinating to me. I think the best option for stuff like this if you want to really pursue it is to use "beginner friendly" languages (Python comes to mind, despite me hating it lol) with some sort of easy web interface to upload and download them. Maybe use JavaScript since it works nice in the browser and can be run right there for tests or whatever. Make some sort of sandbox to limit what can be done or just have devs more actively review it (maybe a PR process). Maybe even have the webtool just be a front end for a tool that interacts with git (or some forge like GitHub specifically if it needs to do stuff like opening pull requests).