- Snacklive parentRecently i bought a book from Kindle because i couldn't find it in any other platform and I'm so happy it only cost me 1$ because i haven't been able to download the ePub version, none of the methods on the internet have worked for me or they need to use a physical kindle device. God it's so frustrating i just want to read a 1$ book on my Kobo
- This was already a thing, it played a massive role in the events following the past election.
After the election, every sane person knew that Maduro lost, however as the government didn't recognize the results and Maduro was declared president once again
A number of protests started in various cities, so the government instructed their followers to use the app to report any activity, during the following months it was scary to leave the house, the military and cops got free pass to search any citizen on sight, they were allowed to just take your phone and if something against the government was found they could take you to prison or use some kind of extortion.
Also, Maduro gave a free pass to the "Colectivos" basically criminals supported by the government with weapons to just terrorize the common people. IT WAS WILD, to be on the street, hear a group riding motorcycles and needing to take cover in a building if you didn't want to be shot
Much of this stuff was coordinated using the reports given by the app
- > But in plain ones.. nope. C++, Java, whatever - noone checks things at runtime. Most of those do not have a way to know what some n-bytes represent
But then my question is, what are you doing that you need to manually check for types ? I mean i get it at some point, usually at the time of user input usually you need to run checks to actually convert some input into a valid type. But once it is inside your program you don't need to check anymore because well... static typing and all that, you should know what you have in every step just at a glance
- i vividly remember getting bitten by a poor example in the android documentation when i was a beginner. It was a typo and a weird use of the " | " to separate some values.
It took me hours to debug why it was faulty in my app, until i asked for help on a discord server and someone answered me saying that the same mistake happened to them a few months back...
It seems small, but it really does help.
- sometimes when sleeping or falling asleep i "wake up" or so. Basically im awake but i start having hallucinations about my surroundings, kind of like the description of sleep paralysis but i can move. I only have experienced sleep paralysis twice in my life so i wouldn't really know.
But hallucinations while semi sleep are wild, idk if it is normal, i haven't really considered before
- Yes, i find myself really uncomfortable with the idea of having my "real" self online.
And it's not because i want to do something illegal or anything, and to be honest i can't point to the exact reason but i think it has something to do with the idea of people being able to extract a large portion of your life just from your internet information.
- > However, fast forward couple of years and thousands of follows, and your feed is a mix of strangers posting about crypto, crossfit, and whatever other passing trend. It's no longer interesting. It doesn't feel like a feed that's based on your current interests.
is that the case ? I used twitter for a couple of years following a multitude of different people and never had the issue of my feed populating with a topic i wasn't interested in. In fact one of the reasons i leave twitter was the feeling of being inside an echo chamber of just stuff that i liked and i wanted to explore a more diverse set of interests