Nearly every video is extreme left propaganda like black actor playing English queen Charlotte. That was so dumb and disgusting to watch that a lot of people canceled subscription on that time.
Bridgerton, set in an alternate universe is a show that has had a pretty intense trigger effect. The idea of black people playing Regency era personalities is unacceptable for some despite being obviously far from historically accurate to the point of being classified as “dumb and disgusting”.
Bridgeton is simply enjoyable and a bit silly, lots of heart. Its a bit of a new formula though. I know many who stiff it for being "historically inaccurate". The period is merely the setting for a story in my view. If it's your preference to get more of a dose of history and accuracy, thats your thing, not a requirement. Think kids of different backgrounds playing make-believe, can they not pretend to impersonate someone they admire, of another race? That aside there are some shows we watched a few episodes of that were dripping with what its creators think must resonate, but it comes of cheap and without conviction. Just woke throwaways.
I agree that it's ridiculous to assume everyone disliking the show is a racist.
However your race-bending example is not a good analogy because MLK was a Black rights leader whereas nobody (reasonable) admires queens for their white leadership. The queen's whiteness is not a defining factor in her historical character, at least from white folks' perspective. Compare this to how many Black historical figures do have their blackness as an integral part of their character's story. There is an in-built asymmetry here which makes race-bending arguments unconvincing.
> Blacks would burn and loot
This phrase is dripping with dog whistle and I almost didn't take the time to reply. It likely accounts for all your downvotes.
You can have your cake and eat it too. You can turn the screws on the woke-religionists and their moral panic, while still acknowledging that society has a lot of growing to do on race-centered topics.
Oh how I would love people to actually know what "extreme left" meant before being insulted by the massive propaganda coup which is a black person playing a historically white person. Kind of like that critically slammed and forgettable propaganda piece Hamilton, right?
You wouldn’t believe how many near-FAANGS have hundreds of large backend services on Python without any issues and from times where typing was in docstrings.
I one had a database-backed website serving 50k unique visitors/day written in Django and hosted on a low-budget vps. Worked like a charm with very few hiccups.
Right? I do not understand why the comparison of Python is always, "But when you hit 10 million daily users, you are really going to be feeling the scaling pain." You can hit a very serious audience size before ever having to worry about performance characteristics at all. Computers are fast.
I was curious so i had a bash at comparing the cost of just buying another server to throw at the problem vs telling a FAANG dev to optimise the code.
A dedicated 40core / 6Tb server is around $2k but will be amortized over the years of its life.
It needs power, cooling, someone to install it in a rack, someone to recycle it afterwards, ..., around $175/yr
A FAANG dev varies wildly but $400k seems fair-ish (given how many have TC > 750k).
So that's about 12 hours of time optimising the code vs throwing another 40c / 6Tb machine at the problem for 365 days.
The big cost i'm missing out of both the server and the developer is the building they work in. What's the recharge for a desk at a FAANG, $150k/yr ? I have no idea how much a rack slot works out at.
Unless i've screwed up the figures anywhere, we should probably all be looking at replacing Python with Ruby if we can squeeze more developer productivity!
Adding hardware doesn't improve single-request performance, so slow stacks can require a bunch of optimizing or caching work that wouldn't be needed on a faster one. At some point it also impacts productivity when the test suite is slow, the app takes a long time to restart, etc.
Sure it does, my home lab servers have a single thread performance approximately half that of a server today.
What’s the ping latency from US East to Europe? 80ms-ish? What’s a roundtrip to postgres with a regular business app type query, 20ms-ish? What’s the latency on a beefy rails app’s request handling, 40ms?
We’re talking 140ms best case for a slow stack. What can you get that down to with tuning work?
When your user comes along on their 4g connection with 800ms latency, will they be able to tell the difference?
Don’t get me wrong, I’d far rather invest time in making the stack efficient but from a business point of view, it might not make sense vs. just throwing hardware at the problem and spending your expensive engineering resources on making it possible to deliver more utility to customers.
You need to refresh your knowledge because macbooks have fastest ssd on the market so the ram and ssd memory is shared. You can run apps that require 64gb of ram with same performance as with native 64gb ram
>You can run apps that require 64gb of ram with same performance as with native 64gb ram
You should inform yourself about how RAM and SSDs work and read actual benchmark instead of parroting some wild claims that even Apple's marketing does not mention since having NAND storage at DRAM speed is just absurd.
Plus, using your SSD as RAM not only takes a performance hit but induces premature NAND wear turning your unrepairable M1 MacBook into e-waste sooner.
Durov doesn’t ban Russian government channels calling to literally nuke US and EU, posting fake news, etc. FSB easily tracks anti-regime/opposition channel authors by copying SIM-cards and getting access. Durov also doesn’t call war in Ukraine as war. He exchanged Russian userbase.
This is what I see in my country (Czechia) as well. Right after covid propaganda started to collapse even in mainstream media, we have another distraction. In fact, we have here devastating inflation and prices of food going up like 20-50%. Last month I've got new prices for gas. Bill is 600% higher. But media don't care. It's ticking bomb for poverty.
Beside of this, our gonverment signed new law that is above our constitution and basically give ministry of health unlimited rights to close business, put individuals to quarantine by message and so on. For our safety, of course.
To be fair Covid-related news disappeared almost completely from the media of my country (Romania) once the crisis in Ukraine starting getting real serious.
There were some stats and graphs showing quantity of posts in Twitter related to anti-covid topics and how they changed after February 24th. Russia has extremely large bot-farms where low-skilled people just copy-paste same things from main distribution channels into social networks like Twitter. They had to change narrative due to newly introduced war.
To be fair, it was pretty common to refer to the Soviets as Russians, even if not strictly accurate. Though I don't think I'd ever phrase it as Russian Ukraine if I were writing it out.
The Eastern part of Ukraine used to be called "little Russia" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Russia); just like eastern Belarus was simply "White Russia". That's also why from 1721 the Czar was called "Emperor of all the Russias".
Interesting fact I learned a while back. Belarus is named white russia because mongols used color based cardinal directions ( gold = center, white = west, black = north, red = south, blue = east ).
So white russia means west russia ( west of russia ). Red and black ruthenia means south ruthenia and north ruthenia. White, gold and blue hordes, you get the idea.
If you ever wonder what made white russians white as opposed to other russians, not you know. For the longest time, I thought it was because it snowed more in belarus.
Before Ukraine became an independent country in 1991, it was part of the USSR. The plane and space shuttle etc were part of the USSR.
I'm using the term 'Russian Ukraine' because it describes the fact that it was part of the USSR when created. Its not my own term - I read this earlier today, and I think it indicates the placement in time accurately.
Do you object to the term 'Russian Ukraine'?
And what does my age have to do with it? How old are you?
Edited to say - 'Soviet Ukraine' is probably an even better term.
> Ukraine was pretty much always at least partially owned by russia. One of the first centralized slavic states were the kieven rus.
This is wrong on so many levels :)
In times of Kievan Rus Moscow was a far province of forests and marches. Kyiv was the capital.
What you're saying basically: "Italy (Ukraine) was always owned by France (Russia) because Roman Empire (Kievan Rus) was the first centralized state there".
If you insist on applying modern names to historical states it was the other way around - Ukraine "owned" Russia back then.
Also for a few centuries Ukraine was owned by Mongols, Lithuanians and Poles. And Russia was only starting to exist (and wasn't called Russia at first - just Muscovy). But that's besides the point.
I think it's up to Ukrainians to say if it's offensive to them (probably).
Is it wrong? I don't know, is it wrong to call the Sun cold, or the Universe small? Maybe not. Googling "russian ukraine" will not result with articles about Ukraine, it will result with news about the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Can you point to some respectable sources that use the term "Russian Ukraine"?
