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Comment · 1 year ago
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).
Comment · 2 years ago
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.

Comment · 2 years ago
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.
Comment · 2 years ago
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.

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Comment · 2 years ago
Don't know on what version of Sublime you are but the newest release has indexing built-in and it works really well.
Comment · 2 years ago
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.
Comment · 2 years ago
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.
Comment · 2 years ago
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!
Comment · 2 years ago
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.
Comment · 2 years ago
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.
Comment · 2 years ago
My man, thanks for the explanation but I understand the concept I just didn't agree on definition.
Comment · 2 years ago
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.
Comment · 2 years ago
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.
Comment · 2 years ago
"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.

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