Thanks for sharing. I just recently deactivated Instagram for ~3 weeks, logged back in to download my photos, and then tried to deactivate again.
At first, it failed and threw an error message about enabling cookies which made no sense. Then I got a pathetic error message stating "Sorry, you can only disable your account once a week. Try again in a few days." Pretty pathetic.
Meh, I bought it back in 2016 in the 20s. Also bought Twilio around then. Hit some downturn/burnout freelancing and sold it not long after. You win some and you lose some.
Reading that article it actually makes sense. But to potentially spend between 78,000 and 120,000 dollars a year to manage your SaaS would require a high assessment if it's worth it. Especially when they are targeting small to medium companies, for which that money could be spend on a few junior developers, sales people, or on ACTUAL SaaS.
Most cross-platform solutions are great in the beginning and then the problems start to come to surface as teams grow, requirements change, bugs are harder to track down, code needs to be updated, the next hot cross-platform framework comes along with new promises, etc.
Sure but, these issues come to surface much quicker.
Every time I've started a new iOS project in the past ~2 years, I've reached out to a handful of developers and managers on how cross-platform is going for them. None have been completely sold on it. The ones that are, are the ones that have been doing it for a few months. I've come back around to talk to them months later and they aren't so confident in the decision anymore.
It's surprising, but people are still debating whether animals actually experience something or they are actually just complex robots that appear (incredibly convincingly) to experience things.
One could make that claim about every human being on the planet other than our own self. While both are interesting theoretical philosophical arguments, I don't believe either are true. It's pretty convincingly clear that most animals, higher mammals certainly, and birds and reptiles probably, experience the world in almost essentially the same way we do. From an evolutionary and developmental angle, every animal has their brain wired up the same way; it would be extraordinary if they didn't experience the same world we do in the same, or very similar, way to ourselves. Similar body plans, similar senses, similar emotions, similar learning, memory and recall. The physiological differences are superficial. The only distinguishing feature we have is advanced spoken and written language, and it's not clear that other species couldn't take that step eventually. Some already have language of sorts. Some, such as Chaser the collie, who passed away a short time ago, can learn huge amounts of human vocabulary and grammar, if they are motivated.
About 20 years ago, while an undergraduate biologist studying immunology, I worked for a short time in an animal facility studying tropical diseases in mice. This philosophical argument, and others, were discussed during our training. It didn't take long to quickly disabuse myself of any lingering doubts that this argument had any merit whatsoever, and I never did live animal work ever again after that.
This article resonates with me. As of late, social media has been a negative for my life. It is terribly distracting. I pay attention to who interacts with my content more than I should. I just deactivated Instagram (user ~#66,000 so I signed up in the first few days) for the first time this week (after deleting the app many times) and it has been very refreshing.
This is why I like tiktok more, I rarely see the same people twice. Kills the whole "celebrity" aspect entirely for casual users like me. It's comfy to sit just before bed for about 15 and laugh a bit with tiktok.
A little bit later. It was a demand of various labor movements starting in about the mid-1800s (essentially in response to the industrial revolution) and started to be broadly implemented around the turn of the century.
At first, it failed and threw an error message about enabling cookies which made no sense. Then I got a pathetic error message stating "Sorry, you can only disable your account once a week. Try again in a few days." Pretty pathetic.
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