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The painting used is Barge Haulers on the Volga - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barge_Haulers_on_the_Volga https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barge_Haulers_on_th
by datameta 3y ago
The painting used is Barge Haulers on the Volga - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barge_Haulers_on_the_Volga https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barge_Haulers_on_the_Volga
Can someone please expand on the significance of this achievement to someone used to shooting their foot off in C++ in a predominantly single threaded manner?
- mhd 3y agoNever mind that a lot of Volga boats were very single-threaded. https://www.amusingplanet.com/2021/12/belyana-russias-giant-wooden-boats.html https://www.amusingplanet.com/2021/12/belyana-russias-giant-...
- 3seashells 3y agoYou can even see the steam ships that replaced the slave in the background.
- beatcracker 3y agoThey were not the slaves, but unionized workers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlak https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlak
- mananaysiempre 3y agoAFAIU an артель artelʼ usually did not engage in collective bargaining as such, so calling it a union is not really accurate; you might compare it to a guild but I think there’s no implicaton of a monopoly on a particular trade either. The most accurate description I can think of is perhaps a cooperative combined with a mutual insurance fund.
- beatcracker 3y agoAgree, I might've stretched It a bit. Your descriptions is more accurate.
- Iwan-Zotow 3y agoYEp, somewhat resemblance to Teamsters
- datameta 3y agoFun fact - this was painted about 8 to 10 years after the abolition of serfdom in the Russian Empire. Coincidentally, it happened two years prior to the US Emancipation Proclamation. I've wondered from time to time how linked the two events were, if at all.
- Iwan-Zotow 3y agothey were not slaves, but something like Russian Teamsters
- perihelions 3y agoIt's a logging framework! :D
- aldanor 3y agoStreaming logging framework
- hathym 3y agoI hope the author is not picturing developers using his engine.
- drums8787 3y agoBarge hauler 4th from the back appears to be checking his messages.
- tetris11 3y ago"Tut tut, those poor Canadian renters..."
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- datameta 3y agoAs an addendum - a fair portion here should be in one way or another familiar with Ilya Repin's Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (aka Zaporozhian Cossacks are Writing a Letter to the Turkish Sultan) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cossacks https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cos...