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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.

  • Another smart move

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  • Arrays not starting at 1 bother me. I think the entrenched 0-based index is more important than any major push to use 1 instead, but if I could go back in time and change it I would.

  • Random Oddities

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  • But you can't just magically remotely view somewhere you can't see.

  • Random Oddities

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  • Then you don't know where he is!

  • If scientists could make you immortal but could only do it by transferring your consciousness into a single video game for ever, which game would you choose?

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  • So just pick a game with permanent death if you get existential dread about living forever.

  • If scientists could make you immortal but could only do it by transferring your consciousness into a single video game for ever, which game would you choose?

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  • Choosing BotW and not TotK is wild. You wanna get lasered by guardians for eternity?

  • Random Oddities

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  • This reminds me of Shrek when Pinocchio gets around lying by saying "I don't know where he's not," but if you think about it for one second you'll see that knowing where someone is also means you know where they aren't at. So it's still a lie.

  • DOGE employee

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  • I just hate two column paginated lay outs. Give me pageless single column text.

  • DOGE employee

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  • I'm still mad there's no straightforward way to convert a PDF into semantic HTML. There's plenty of tools to convert it into HTML that looks the same with pages and such, but I just want the content.

  • Nintendo patent explains Switch 2 Joy-Cons’ “mouse operation” mode

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  • You're joking, surely. While the analog stick drift is a huge problem in terms of quality, the motion controls are objectively better. Go play Mario Galaxy on the Wii and play it in 3d All Stars on Switch and tell me the Switch version isn't better. The fact that you aren't bound to pointing directly at the screen due to the motion bar thingy is huge. The sort of tilt assist aiming in games like BotW and TotK are worlds better than any point aiming mechanics from the Wii.

    Nothing I've said before is about the life span of the parts. The analog sticks breaking on Joycons sucks and is awful, but don't sit here and act like that makes the Wiimote better. Motion controls on Switch are so much better than Wii.

  • Nintendo patent explains Switch 2 Joy-Cons’ “mouse operation” mode

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  • I'm wondering if a lot used it in minor ways so you forget easily. I remember Brawl would use it when you selected a character, but I may only be remembering because it was a meme on TikTok for a bit. I remember one microgame in Warioware using it when you answered a phone which was funny.

  • Nintendo patent explains Switch 2 Joy-Cons’ “mouse operation” mode

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  • Here's my thing, so many Wii games that leaned too heavily into the Wiimote were annoying. I don't necessarily believe games leaning more into the game pad would've made them enjoyable experiences. I think it's just nostalgia. We remember things like Wii sports because it was fun and everyone had it, not because it used the Wiimotes.

  • It is my practice to delete the hash lines after question marks in URLS to defeat tracking... but the question mark has disappeared

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  • Yeah. TikTok's generated share links don't have separate params for the content and tracking making it difficult to get around without copying the link into the browser yourself. Because it's mostly used through an app and not the browser, you cannot just copy the URL and you have to use the share button.

  • It is my practice to delete the hash lines after question marks in URLS to defeat tracking... but the question mark has disappeared

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  • Query parameters follow everything after the ? and take the format a=foo&b=bar. Essentially, key value pairs using = and separated by &.

    There's no perfect way to know what is and isn't part of a tracking stuff. We just use our intuition. In this case, when we look at a YouTube video we see links like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ. Notice the v=xxx? So, in the URL you shared, we can deduce that v=W_svsNc6seE is needed and the si=xxx is the tracking stuff. You should also then remove the & because it's no longer separating two entries. Leaving it doesn't seem to hurt anything though. So https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=W_svsNc6seE without &si=22MYOxMc5wMcdatU.

    I don't know what si stands for, but in my head I see it as "share ID". A lot of services use si or something similar for the tracking stuff.

  • This was Likely Recently Auto-Installed on your Phone.

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  • The technician test is pretty easy if you remember some stuff from physics and you study. https://hamstudy.org/ (you don't need to make an account here to practice).

  • The /r/piracy link to lemmy /c/piracy hit the reddit frontpage with 7K+ updoots!

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  • When referring to communities on Lemmy please use the proper link format. !community@instance

  • What's the wrongest thing a teacher ever told you?

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  • Another funny thing nowadays is that most ROM is EEPROM meaning it's not read-only.

  • What's the wrongest thing a teacher ever told you?

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  • No, its not technically correct! I know the whole "state's rights to what" meme is fun, but seriously, the south was trying to compel the Federal government to infringe on the rights of other states with regards to fugitive slaves. If they were the true bastions of states' rights that lost causers argue they were, then they wouldn't have had a problem with that.

  • What's the wrongest thing a teacher ever told you?

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  • Best in that you don't have adult responsibilities.

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  • I was told General Lee was an honorable person.