> Yep, if Russia wants to expand its conflict against Europe, Narva in Estonia is most likely place for it. Over 90% of its population is ethnic Russian, and it's located right next to the Russian border. It's the perfect place to send some armed "separatists" to see how NATO responds.
Fortunately while close, the border runs along a fairly wide river with just a single bridge across, so logistically somewhat complicated to supply with heavy equipment from the Russian side. At least covertly.
But definitely a scenario that needs to be considered.
Are you implying military personnel aren't a legitimate target in a war?
I'd understand if you were arguing against using excessive force, eg using thermobaric weapons in residential neighborhoods against an individual target, but there hardly exists a more targeted method than the pager attack / arson of specific houses.
Russia isn’t using these recruits for anything more than meatwave attacks, so their life expectancy isn’t long enough to be useful for sabotage. By the time they’ve been transported to the front, they will be dead whether they go willingly or not.
It makes perfect sense when you consider that the average Javascript developer does not know that business logic can exist outside of React components.
Yea I understand maybe 10-20% of these AI clowns don't know what they're doing, but to suggest they're all making a mistake this silly doesn't stack up IMHO.
I keep seeing this implication that microservices somehow allow teams to move faster, but every company I've seen them at has moved at a snails pace mostly because of the clusterfuck of microservices. What would've been a trivial change in a monolith became a cross-team nightmare.
Because, as I said in a previous post, they are adopted as a technical rather than organizational solution. Which means that either these organizations adopted the wrong technological solution for their problem without really understanding it, or that they should've tackled their organizational issues instead which could've been unrelated from microservices being the actual solution.
Gonna give you an example.
Dazn, the european sports streaming service unicorn, adopted both microservices and microfrontends as an organizational solution: they had multiple teams across different offices in the world, and this posed a lot of organizational strains.
There's a series of talks (he mostly focuses on micro frontends, but the concepts are the same) on Youtube from Luca Mezzalira (principal serverless engineer at AWS, previous chief architect of Dazn) on the topic, and he does *not* shy away from the idea of micro services and micro frontends being a subpar technical solution more often than not.
But sure, if you adapt micro services because you don't know what you're doing and you're not understanding the engineering difficulties, then you're shooting yourself in the foot and I've seen the very same phenomenon you describe: short-term velocity gains with long term penalties.
This is the main issue with tankies, not that they go bizarrely out of their way to defend the PRC (and weirdly sometimes the Soviet Union or even North Korea), but, as Westerners, every geopolitical analysis they have is Americentric. Every news article for them is framed as, "How does this affect, or, is influenced by, American hegemony?"
It often results in them completely disregarding the opinions, motivations, and agency of anyone that isn't American or a citizen of the PRC.
Most people are equally bad at math with or without a calculator. The problem for the average person isn’t that they can’t add two numbers, it’s that they can’t tell which numbers they should be adding in the first place.
Fortunately while close, the border runs along a fairly wide river with just a single bridge across, so logistically somewhat complicated to supply with heavy equipment from the Russian side. At least covertly.
But definitely a scenario that needs to be considered.