sevnin · HackerTrans

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

It didn't open a pandoras box, Russians are very creative in the escalation warfare. It was known for quite a bit of time that Russians were mapping these cables out. They are probably, like always, just testing to see the response (rather lack of it).

sevnin

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

If he worded it like you did now "Russian line", I would agree--but he didnt. He used a word that Russia loves to use in cry bully situations. It implies that Lithuanians are doing this because they just happen to hate poor russians while they have legitimate reasons to be scared and are forced to react.

You may think that Im pedantic or whatever but Russia has history of subtly playing with words and thus dictating the discourse. For example term eastern europe was hijacked by soviets to enshrine and justify their sphere of influence which was a completely made up term which descends from germans and their ostsiedlung--the settling of lands to the east of germans states by germans.

sevnin

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

No I disagree, what are you even refering to? What are these particular actions?, curiously we never refer to russian actions as anti-ukrainian, anti-polish, anti-european. Its always the other way round.

sevnin

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Anti-russian? Russia is a major security threat to Lithuania that engages in cyber warfare, disinformation and sabotage campaigns.

- Two months ago there were major arson attacks and failed attempts linked to Russians in multiple states like Poland and Germany.

- Russian linked agents at the beginning of school year dissiminated false information about bombs being planted at schools in Lithuania which disrupted the process in general and undermined trust of parents and children.

- They are also constantly creating false narratives about ongoing social events with ant-lithuanian anti-european spin and spreading them online.

- Lets also not forget that Russia is constantly using migrants to attack borders of European states.

Russians are trying to wage war in every gray area they can find. Why this paragon of free speech (kekw) constantly engages in anti-lithuanian policies?

Even more interesting recently they started mapping out locations of optic fibers scattered across the ocean. Lets hope they wont use this information.

sevnin

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

It supports selective indexing, you can specify paths to exclude from indexing or you might open just a single module, here is more info: https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/indexing.html

sevnin

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Don't know on what version of Sublime you are but the newest release has indexing built-in and it works really well.

sevnin

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Why are you assuming that all people try to become experts in order to impress, make an impact, earn money? Frequently top performers that commit themselves to these things are only partially motivated by them. Take for example e-sport youngsters, these people don't even have these things in sight but they still commit themselves fully into whatever they are doing.

sevnin

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

I agree with you but then I don't think you can call this deliberate practice, deliberate practice is not just sitting down and pushing boundaries, it's also having a clear path. In programming (since you said Alan Kay) sitting down and knowing precisely what you need to do in order to get good is very rare. Here everything is displaced - once you know what is good, everything is downhill. The problem is always overcoming X - that place where you don't know where you are, you don't know where you are going and you somehow need to get to your destination.

sevnin

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Quite a lot of work went into those docs. I won't use it (because I don't have a need for it) but the examples look quite pleasing, nice work!

sevnin

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

He said "I think" implying that he is not fully sure about the etymology. There is a history section on wikipedia for refactoring if you are interested.

sevnin

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Sure, I agree. You could even respond to me fully selfishly - treat me as a stepping stone just to form your argument, nothing wrong with that.

sevnin

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

My man, thanks for the explanation but I understand the concept I just didn't agree on definition.

sevnin

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

To be fair OOP of today is much more similar to Simula then to Small Talk, reading the wikipedia I can see almost 1:1 mapping including the modeling philosophy and all that, people mostly yoinked the name from Alan Kay.

sevnin

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Huh, I guess that's true, even on wikipedia. I will have to stop using the word then. Though I'm pretty sure most people use it in day-to-day with much more abandon.

sevnin

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

"By definition" proceeds to define the word in a way that most people won't agree with. Okay mate. Your definition is ass. The person that wrote the article doesn't agree with you, I don't agree with you. I will still use the word refactor when I talk about simplifying the application such that code becomes simpler through simplifying and improving the design.

sevnin

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

My point is that there is no clear line between a heap of sand and a bunch of sand grains. But at some point the grains become a heap of sand regardless of this. Its easier for us to think about this multitude as a singular object. In the same way a collection of people as a whole can have goals, we can speculatively discern that even though a company has hundreds of people, all with their own goals and ideas. We can discern the general structure of all of them as a singular unit because it might be a useful insight. If a company as a whole given a decision always goes for the decision which will bring the most capital then we can say that the true goal of this company is to pursue money even though all the people might not be aware of this its still a useful and valid idea that is capable of predicting reality and so on.

sevnin

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Yes but the overarching structure they participate in is designed to pursue the goal of making money. If not every single person has the same idea then we cant deduce anything from the group as a whole? When you look at the heap of sand you also start saying things like this is not a heap of sand its just a bunch of sand grains?

sevnin

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

That's simply not true, goal of most businesses is to make money. You can clearly deduce this goal much more the bigger the company gets. What you say only makes sense if you are confusing the stated publicly goal, the appearance that company maintains and its true goal which is pursued by the executives (the capital).

sevnin

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

If by abstraction you mean identifying unifying concepts then I cant understand how you reasoned yourself into thinking that identifying a common method and sharing it between multiple classes by the means of the super class is not abstraction. You have identified a commonality - the common code, common method. By your definition it's abstraction.

sevnin

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

That's a great question. Some might say it's because of the network - that makes microservices messy and so on. But I dont think so, from what I remember plan9 (the os, successor of unix), Rob Pike wanted to make it so that there is no difference between an object being on the network or outside the network. In unix philosophy, things have the same interface, it's easy to communicate. For microservices it would be REST api which is unique to network things. I honestly see a direct link between these ideas. Unix here is projecting a much nicer, simpler image but nonetheless they seem to overlap a lot. The result in both cases seems to be a hard to debug network of small utilities working together. The saving grace for unix is that you are mostly using stable tools (like ls, cat), everything is on your system so - you don't get to experience the pain of debugging 5 different half-working tools.

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