There is a myth of an ancient city Atlantis that was flooded, we also name the Bronze Age collapse as caused by the invasion of Sea Peoples. I drove this strange parallel lately, maybe the story is not exactly about the water?
> Every time something makes things easier, you get a wave of beginners set to create things they are not qualified to do. And because you now need software for everything, leaders also get into positions where are not qualify to make some decisions about it. You pair unqualified leaders with unqualified devs, and you get this.
How easy it is to call other people not qualified because they have different opinions.
I've seen more projects failed because the only thing the devs cared about was an abstract code correctness, which made even basic PRs getting polished for weeks. I don't think you need to worry too much about types or tests if you are just doing a prototoype to validate ideas or your user base is 0.
Totally agree about the mobile aspect. Initially, I focused on making the website mobile-first, but we received numerous requests for a mobile app.
Since I'm not well-versed in mobile development and we're self-funded with a tight budget, I opted to super optimize the website for mobile instead. I figured optimizing for free traffic through SEO would be a fantastic starting point. Surprisingly, I stumbled upon a ton of high-traffic keywords with little to no competition, which got me pretty excited.
I had some gut issues and switching jobs to WFH friendly made it all gone away. It's much easier to change your bad habits when you have more control of your environment. It wasn't in COVID times though, it was around 2015.
Well, the victory in Ukraine is low cost high profit business for the US.
There is unprecedented growth of oil and natural gas sales to Europe, which completely displaced Russia as the biggest supplier. The arms contracts are rising heavily, making at least half of the world's armies interested in replacing old equipment. Prices are rising as well as profits.
Secondly, securing Ukraine would add up to the capitalistic market huge amounts of resources like grains and metals. This is a huge area of future investments that would provide gains for capital markets for years. Not to mention educated, hard-working populace.
There is also a matter of prestige. It is hard not to see the military advantage that western weapons have over the soviet ones. The risk of any other conflict is lower elsewhere. Still, the US is considered a worthy ally, whose guarantees are reliable.
Those are the advantages. Costs? Old military equipment that should be replaced anyway. Some money as well, but hey, banks are being given free cash as well. No boots on the ground, NATO expansion, many of the help come from allies. You can't make it cheaper.
And above all, morally you are still on the right side. Incredible.
In wars factories making guns make money selling guns. You could as well say Iran or Turku engineered the conflict to sell drones. Maybe the North Korean 152mm shell manufacturers are behind it all.
Raytheon didn’t invade Ukraine. Boeing didn’t invade Ukraine. There’s one country with one leader that invaded Ukraine, and that is where the sole responsibility lies for that decision.
He did so solely and specifically in response to the expressed democratic wishes of the Ukrainian people. That is what this war is about. You know it, I know it, the rest is just distraction.
I can see the mutual partnerships are on the rise. There is a brand new polish-korean cooperation for producing various weapons. India may produce its own equipment by finding a reliable partner that would help with know-how.
There is a shocking reality of how short-sighted and strategically shallow the opinions of people may be, even very literate ones with unlimited access to information.
There are very long tensions between Japan and Russia about the Kuril Islands, that both countries have a claim on. It is very possible, that the same vague claims used on annexing Crimea today, or Donbas, would be used against Japan, and may not stop there. What is more, Japan is an ally of the United States since WW2, and seems to benefit much both militarily and economically. What is more, another raising power in Asia and growing tensions around Taiwan may have the same consequences for Asia, which may threaten japanese influence in the reqion. We are also seeing proliferation of nuclear weapons, and the threats and blackmail is rising, when deescalation is seen as a sign of weakness.
Usually, being united against common threat is the cheapest strategy, and to pay a few bucks less for oil might turn to be very expensive in the long run. If there would be no punishment for disrespecting international law, the chaos would come.
Could you please list any other war of conquest with that much casualties, armour usage and refugee issue in Europe?
And what punishment are we talking about, voluntary economical sanctions? Those numbers of atrocities, stealing children, mass graves - I still can't understand how the international response is so mild.
Also note “of conquest”: presumably, if the purpose of Russian invasion was to just hang Zelensky and institute a regime change with government sympathizing with Russia, and not to annex any territory, that would have been OK too.
> and strategically shallow the opinions of people may be, even very literate ones with unlimited access to information
The problem with unlimited access to information is that you can find a thousand people arguing for a thousand different opposing things with all that information.
There is nothing wrong about arguing if all the parties are interested in truth. Discourse is a backbone of free people.
In my perspective, there is no doubt about japanese government stance on the matters in Ukraine. And any other non-totalitarian society. I am ready being convinced otherwise.
I don't think events related to what happened in Iraq has any relevance to Japan's view of international relations, or any other democratic society.
The question was about if Japan has any reasons to feel threatened by what happened in Ukraine. My reason is, any democratic society should be, which is not hard to imagine.
The question of "who is more saint" does not have any strategical significance and is clear reflection of russian propaganda. Obviously, nobody is saint. That doesn't make what happened in Bucha less shocking.
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It's like asking people on the internet what you should eat for dinner or who you should marry. Unless you don't learn programming just for the sake of it (assuming that's true based on the question you are asking), you either haven't learned enough yet to broaden your horizons to get ideas, or don't have enough geeky hobbies to put your new skills in motion. Have fun finding out what it is.
The true goal of event-driven is the separation of concenrns, so you don't call `execute_payment`, `send_confirmation_email`, `include_in_report_dashboard` etc inside a `complete_order`.
Instead, you emit "order_issued" event and all subscribers can act based on the event, completely unknown from `complete_order`.
There is a slight distinction between a dictionary and a class. Dict is a mutable key-value storage, so can be used as a collection of objects (or values) and benefit from its dynamism. Dataclasses are meant to define an object, so the emphasis is on clearly declaring the purpose of it upfront, enhancing readability.
