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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.

  • Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails

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  • Really comparing missing a day of a language learning app to alcoholism recovery?

    Your streak doesn't go up on days you use a freeze.

  • Lamp detention

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  • Fucher but with a poorly drawn h. I can see it.

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  • "Did the alarm go off an hour ago or just now?" lol.

    That's a crazy fucking story. A bit of a scared straight moment for me, though I'm not really sure what I should be changing. Heart stuff really freaks me out, and I guess the idea that it could manifest as something so seemingly trivial is terrifying.

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  • No, you don't. It's only when you lose hearts. You get to make 5 mistakes. You can use gems to replenish them or they replenish over time. After playing for a while you earn plenty of gems to restore your hearts mid lesson every now and then. You can watch an ad to replenish your hearts between lessons, but not during. If you're not making mistakes then you can keep going. It's not that difficult to not make mistakes either, a lot of times they flat out give you the answer by tapping on words.

    There are plenty of things to shit on Duolingo as a company. Calling the app pay to win really isn't one.

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  • You're just pretending you are doing something useful with your life instead of just slaving away at your job enriching others.

    /s, obviously. What a wild take they have.

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  • A completely optional, side objective that has no bearing on anything else? You can completely ignore the leader board and still progress. It's not competitive.

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  • To win what? The lessons are not competitive.

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  • Jesus fucking Christ, lighten up lol.

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  • I'm a long time user of Duolingo and you earn plenty to give yourself the occasional streak freeze if you can't go two days without doing a lesson. It's not really as predatory as it sounds. It's nothing like pay to win type games.

    Fuck Duolingo for the AI shit though, don't mistake me for a Duolingo simp thinking their blameless. It's just that the monetization is not as predatory as it sounds.

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  • So trees are the "evolve to crabs" meme and wood is like a crab shell. Or, I guess just exoskeleton, because things that aren't crabs also have hard shells.

  • An Elaborate GitHub Comment on Microsoft's new edit CLI Text Editor Asking for Simplicity and Predictability

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  • Just add .editorconfig support for insert_final_newline.

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  • Are at least all woody plants related?

  • Anime Recommendations

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  • Of course!

  • Anime Recommendations

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  • Outlaw Star! Aisha Clan Clan, my beloved queen. The first cat girl crush lol. Very nostalgic.

    I remember this as a kid on Toonami, one day they said "asshole" or something (I don't remember) and my dad was angry and told me I can't watch it anymore because they swore.

  • Filter? What Filter?

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  • 2: A hollowed out place.

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  • You're right, and Anubis was the solution they used. I just wanted to mention the IP thing because you did is all.

    I hadn't heard about Anubis before this thread. It's cool! The idea of wasting some of my "resources" to get to a webpage sucks, but I guess that's the reality we're in. If it means a more human oriented internet then it's worth it.

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  • So many companies let perfect become the enemy of good and it's insane. Recently some discussion about trying to get our team to use a consistent formatting scheme devolved into this type of thing. If the thing being proposed is better than what we currently have, let's implement it as is then if you have concerns about ways to make it better let's address those later in another iteration.

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  • They said this tool is useless because of how trivial it is to work around.

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  • Leave your doors unlocked at home then. If your lock stops anyone, they weren't good thieves to begin with. 🙄