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Wow, "Painting 1946" is super creepy

Haha, right. Francis Bacon painted the metal one in 1953.

Not this Francis Bacon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon that died in 1626,

but this one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon_(artist)

It was based on a painting by Valazquez in 1650.

I have seen that one, and I agree. I didn't know about the 14 black ones tho, thanks for the info.

That's ok. Edit: What I mean is, that's a valid argument. If it doesn't speak to you, that's ok. It spoke to me, filled me with a little dread when I first saw it - like it was made by a giant spider. And fear is a cool thing to get from a painting, I think. But if it doesn't do anything for you, that just means we've had different life experiences, and ya know of course we have.

She's a practicing member of the cult of cthulu.

Here's a write-up from the Smithsonian: https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/girl-i-left-behind-me-11492

It says it's based on this song: https://youtu.be/FW0b7O5EFS8?si=zjDgbS8CL5zZagbz

In case you were curious, from Wikipedia:

Moscovium is a synthetic element with the symbol Mc and atomic number 115. It was first synthesized in 2003 by a joint team of Russian and American scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia. In December 2015, it was recognized as one of four new elements by the Joint Working Party of international scientific bodies IUPAC and IUPAP. On 28 November 2016, it was officially named after the Moscow Oblast, in which the JINR is situated.

Omg, you saying that is giving me 3-body flashbacks. Book 2 or 3 I think.

Maybe the Rapture or something like it? There's another figure floating away in the background.

Obligatory, thanks for posting this, I've never seen it before and I love it. (I feel like I say that so much I need an abbreviation. Perhaps TFPTINSIBAILI? It kinda looks like Tennisball... maybe that would be better.)

Anyway, I did some research...

If you go here https://association-emile-friant.fr/index.php/en/november-2021, you can see even more detail. It shows the woman is actually wearing a veil, as if at a funeral. There is also an interesting interpretation of the piece, although a little too "this is what you're looking at" for my liking.

The Franco-Prussian War

In case you didn't know (because I didn't know until this research), Prussia basically means Germany. Prussia began as a united group of kingdoms occupying parts of today's northern Germany.

And they had this really smart Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, who had risen through the ranks of the political structure of Prussia. This chancellor wanted to add more German kingdoms to Prussia, so what did he do? He provoked Napoleon III (Napoleon's Nephew) into starting a war with Prussia over areas formerly held by the Austrian Empire.

And France took the bait. If you can believe it, they invaded Prussia! So what did Prussia do? They mobilized their army quickly and invaded Northeastern France, near Dieuze, where the artist, Friant, was living at the time.

Friant

Friant grew up with his parents, in Dieuze. His mother was a dressmaker, and one of her best customers was a rich couple (the Parisots) who never had any children of their own. When Prussian forces invaded, the Parisots took Friant while his parents stayed behind, and fled to another city, called Nancy. His parents would come later, but the Parisots semi-adopted young Friant. This gave him unprecedented access to cameras, which he used to aid him in his art.

During this time Nancy quickly became known as the second home of art (after Paris), because the invasion caused many French to come to the area. This was during the Art Nouveau period.

Friant painted a self-portrait at 15 and became a minor celebrity in art circles.

This is the self-portrait:

He would go on to wow the Salon and win many prizes. He finished his career as a teacher.

Pompeii

In 79 AD about 2 hours southeast of Rome, Mount Vesuvius erupted. The sun couldn't be seen through the ash clouds. Pompeii was right in the path of the ash. It literally rained fire and brimstone for days. Pompeii was buried under 20ft of ash.

For 1500 years it sat, dormant and mostly undisturbed. It was rediscovered by accident in the 1500s, but kept secret so the erection of an aqueduct could continue unfettered. Official excavations began in the 1600s, uncovering art of the classical period. The discovery became an essential part of the "Grand Tour" (a trip wealthy students would take to visit cities in France and Italy to study art).

Because of these discoveries, and as a reaction to the lavish ornamentation of the Baroque, Neoclassicism was born. A rededication to the simplicity, realism and symmetry of classical art.

This piece has elements of both Baroque and Neoclassicism. The drama of the Baroque and style of Neoclassical. You might even call it part of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood movement (the emo of art styles) if it was 20 years earlier and british.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Friant
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Friant
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Prussian_War
• https://rehs.com/eng/default-19th20th-century-artist-bio-page/?fl_builder&artist_no=115&sold=1
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii#Rediscovery_and_excavations
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoclassicism
• https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/grtr/hd_grtr.htm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Raphaelite_Brotherhood

Oh, ok. Thanks for the clarification.

I appreciate your emacs perspective, thanks for the input.

I get the sense that programmerhumor hates prefixes, but I'm telling you, they have changed my life. Next project-for-fun, just give it a try and see what happens. I think you'll be surprised.

To many of your points, I say I agree that a lot of naming conventions depend on context. The environment you're working in, the IDE, the team you're working on, the language you're coding in.

However, prefixes I'm firm on. I think it's unpopular because it's from a bygone era where IDEs were non-existent. And while yes, ides have replaced many of the uses, they have been the most radical change to my readability and comprehension of the code I've written.

Also, I'm mostly a js programmer, so yes, very different from emacs.

Also, for calc_SumYears, I literally meant to add the years together, hense the prefix. So, maybe the prefixes are a little more useful than you give them credit.

Thanks for sharing this, I've never seen it before and loved it. And I was curious, so I did some research:

What is the Arch of Constantine?

The Romans built arches like this as a sign of respect for a conquering army commander. They built them along the route the army would take when it came home - think of the V-Day celebration in NYC with the guy kissing the girl - an equivalent would be Congress building an arch in Times Square to celebrate Roosevelt. Or rather, an existing arch in Times Square would be reformatted to show Roosevelt's face, rather than Washington's.

Similarly, the Senate voted to replace the figures of older victorious leaders with Constantine's - and really only his face. Notice the faces are gone as of 1745:

Constantine vs Maxentius

It's kinda a long story, but Constantine was named emperor while in England. His rule was briefly usurped by Maxentius. During this time, Maxentius rebuilt much of Rome. Constantine found out and rolled into Rome, killing Maxentius. The Senate, in order to keep the peace, remade the arch in the image of Constantine, pretending it was always him they were in support of. Later he rolled out, back to England and didn't return to Rome until many years later.

If you ask me, maybe there shoulda been another emperor to look after the state of Rome, although by that time, much of the power had moved out of the city. Anyway, that's why it's called the Arch of Constantine.

The Painting

Canaletto was a tourist painter. Think of the people who will paint you as a caricature on the sidewalk in tourist hotspots. Similarly, Canaletto would paint pictures of places. He usually painted Venice, as that is where he operated, but in the 1740s he briefly dabbled in other places. This is one of those artistic excursions. Tourists would buy the paintings as a keepsake of their travels.

The Statement

Notice the figures in front of the arch.

The man with a cane in the lower-right:

The Woman sitting, leaning against the arch:

The man looking at the man carrying stuff, looking at the woman:

Notice the general disrepair of the arch and colosseum, mainly the greenery growing:

These are statements of societal class and the state of Rome. The man to the left, dressed in fancy clothing is rich and annoyed that his servant has stopped to talk to the woman on the ground. The man with the cane ignored by everyone.

It's interesting to see the wealth disparity outside of our own current context. This is 30 years before the creation of the United States, and 200 years before she started forcing her form of capitalism on the world. It's also interesting to note that through most of human history, cities were where people didn't want to live. They were run-down, stinky and dangerous places.

Now, they're the opposite. They attract the youthful or wealthy, willing to live in destitute or dish out money to be close to the action - although more recently, the balance has tilted to the latter, where the poor live in close vicinity to the wealthy, and more are pushed out every day in desire of larger tax revenues.

This is similar to Rome at the time of the arch - 315. The city was only for the wealthy. The servants lived outside of town or in retched squalor.

The Now

Here's what the arch looks like from the same view today:

You can't even see the Colosseum any more for the apartment buildings built between. There are high price tags to live among the views of ancient relics, and this is another statement that can be gleened. However, it should be noted the artist moved the colosseum to the left for the sake of composition. I'm not sure how far.

I have to disagree on some points, but I def feel like you're helping me learn, so for that I am grateful.

I feel like you're speaking from the perspective of a perfect coding environment, which if you have that, that's great. Maybe all your code is in one place, maybe you have an IDE that does a lot of the work for you, and that's great. However, for most of us, that's rarely the case.

Prefixes have been an absolute game changer for me personally, and I will never not use them again.

I have also found that verbosity of variable name and readability are mutually exclusive. A long variable name, most of the time, takes away from the logic. Yes, they are "free" as far as memory, but are very expensive to reliability.

Units tests, again are great, but most places think unit tests are like golden toilets. It sucks, but that's the way it is. Usually you're given a task, and if it's not done next week, maybe you're not as good as they thought.

Sorry, I'm serious. These are things I have picked up from 18 years in the industry.

Does anyone have any good advice on variable naming? Here's some of my rules I try to live by:

• camelCase
• use prefixes
• prefixes should be one word followed by an underscore.
• 10 character limit or 3 word limit, not counting the prefix
• functions should be prefixed with the file in which they're defined, ie utils_FooBar
• file names should be one word
• Start Bools with is
• Don't use not in bool names.
  • This has farther-reaching implications that will keep you from making confusing code most of the time (I'm sure this will be controversial, but it works no matter what they say)
• start output with _
• Globals should be g_VARIABLENAME
• use the least amount of words possible
• but being too verbose can draw attention - use this to aide in readability
  • calc_ImportantValueThatWillDecideTheUsersView is better than calc_SumYears if the variable is more important than the others.
• Even the greatest variable names are not replacements for documentation
• Even the most readable code is not replacement for documentation.
  • Force yourself to love documentation.

Edit: I realize I was speaking about function-naming with the prefix stuff.

For variables, I still use prefixes, but for variable type. Even if you define the variables as types, it's still incredibly useful. For instance,

a string is s_MyName,

enumerable is e_MyType,

A number is int or double or whatever i_MyAge or d_MyWeight

This might be obvious for custom objects, but I'd still do it like this p_Person or per_Person.

Seriously it does make a huge difference