#Performance Comparison

[justnshalom]

Is .NET Core 7 faster than NodeJS?

Introduction When it comes to choosing a framework for your application development, performance is a critical factor to consider. In this article, we will compare the performance of .NET Core 7 and NodeJS to determine which one is faster. Performance Comparison Concurrency .NET Core Development is based on the approach of processing all input-output operations simultaneously, with separate…

[clairenatural]

okay but you see sam has ALSO fallen for dean's act. sam also believes dean to be the macho, daddy's soldier, beer boobs cars guy he presents himself as. this is why sam makes fun of dean whenever he even lightly steps out of that mold and thinks it's harmless banter instead of attacking an insecurity. it's why he laughs when john talks down to dean in the early seasons and it's why he seems surprised when dean is more comfortable with himself in the later seasons. it's why he just scoffs but doesn't push it when dean puts up a front and refuses to talk about his emotions and just accepts whatever excuse he makes at face value. it's why he offers dean a strip club to make him feel better when cas dies. and this isn't his fault!! dean has spent a very long time perfecting this image in front of everyone and ESPECIALLY to sam because along with it comes safety and security and stability and the only person. who has consistently been able to see through it. is castiel

[lorebird]

In which Ford struggles so badly to relate to other people that he wonders if he’s really human at all. The more isolated he becomes, the harder it is to reconcile with his own humanity.

[ef-1]

If I think about the double standard and the disparity with which the media handled Daniel in comparison to everyone else I may lose my mind.

[xoalsox]

taemin doing jonghyun's adlib in sherlock (originally in clue)

[chekhovs-guns]

for every "anidala is actually snowbaird lol" post i need to yell at someone bc they absolutely misunderstand these ships and characters in them AND if there any thg ship here that can be called anidala it's haydove.

[rainbowtitania]

That Kitchen Scene

Okay, I gotta talk about kitchen fight for a minute, because it was visually GLORIOUS.

tldr: every aspect of the scene’s mise-en-scene, lighting, sound, camerawork, and blocking all work together here. Even without a single word of dialogue, this scene makes us feel estranged from this familiar place; uncomfortably close but also disconnected from these characters; and we’ve got subconscious alarm bells ringing because all sorts of small details feel menacing and unreal.

It's such a smart way to film a fight between two characters who are almost always on the same page but are uncharacteristically alienated from each other, who are both hiding how they’re feeling and pretending to be normal when they’re not, and are now pushed to a breaking point. It’s also such a smart way to film two characters who feel alone in their grief for different reasons. It’s such a relatable feeling: when you’re trying to make your pain heard but it feels like you can’t break through; when your familiar spaces and relationships all feel tilted on their axis and everything looks mostly the same but feels wrong in some indefinable way.

Anyway, let’s dive in and see how they did it:

The scene opens on Eddie’s dark hallway, and when we see the kitchen, it’s harshly lit. There’s some yellow, but it only accentuates the sickly, shadowed atmosphere compared to the bright, sunny way the kitchen is usually lit. There are also no photos, magnets, or drawings on the fridge, which differentiates this from what Eddie’s kitchen used to look like, but also what Buck’s kitchen in the loft looked like. There are no objects to clutter the counters or table (again, unlike the way the set used to be dressed), which gives the whole room — especially considering the way it’s lit — a sterile and impersonal feel. It feels subtly wrong from the get-go.

Similarly, there’s no soundtrack for much of the scene, and the ambient audio (I’m not a sound person so this might not be the right term) is turned way up, to a degree that’s louder than it would be in real life. We hear every shuffle of their feet, every crinkle of the plastic on the paper towels. And they move and bang around so much that there’s just this underlying clamor to the whole scene that’s — again — artificial by design.

Next, I want to pause on the first angle we get of the kitchen. Ostensibly, it’s from Eddie’s POV. He walks in, stops, sees the grocery bag. But the camera is lower to the ground than Eddie’s eyeline, and shakily moves up to Buck putting away cereal. I think this has three purposes: accentuates Buck visually in the space, creates an ominous or disempowered feeling (which low angle shots are often used to do), and flags for the viewer immediately before a word is spoken that something isn’t right. On 911, the cinematography usually fades into the background; when it doesn’t, it’s visually unsettling.

The camerawork through the whole scene is deliberately provoking. Even when we do get a more traditional shot-reverse-shot during the argument, the audience is never allowed to align with either Buck or Eddie. The camera is never quite filming from their POV or over their shoulder, it’s always at an odd off-angle. But neither is it filming from a neutral POV where the audience can be an observer like a fly on the wall. Instead, we’re just a little too close. We’re in their faces. When Buck and Eddie move forward, the camera moves back jerkily and too slowly, at a different speed than Oliver and Ryan are walking, rather than with a frictionless travelling shot. Oliver and Ryan also shift from side to side as they move, as does the camera, so the camera is often zigging when Oliver and Ryan are zagging. It’s almost nauseating, and makes us feel like they’re about to bump into us. It’s as intimate as it is claustrophobic.

Speaking of bumping into each other: the blocking. You’ll notice that Buck and Eddie are rarely in the same shot together at all, and only cross near each other once: when Eddie comes in to get a cup of coffee, they physically turn their backs on each other until Buck is on the other side of the room again. (Compare that to the kitchen scene where Eddie tells Buck he’s moving — even when Eddie is keeping a secret, the two of them are all up in each other’s space).

It makes the moment when they finally meet an emotional source of tension but a huge visual catharsis. And the camera might be uncomfortably close, something awful might be happening between them, but the moment they touch is also the moment when the music kicks in and Eddie and Buck can finally be honest with each other about how they’re really feeling. Eddie and Buck get close to each other and both their composures crack.

[yangjeongin]

HYUNJIN | 230903 • WOLFGANG @ 5-STAR DOME TOUR 2023 NAGOYA

[veerbles]

almost a year past finishing trk, I'm finally ready to make a confession: I do not understand gansey's how do I know I love her metaphors, and I refuse to be made ashamed of it.

[tart-tree-tomato]

I wish there were more character studies/theories/juxtapositions/brilliant posts that capture what I'm thinking even better than I can comparing Dylan G & Mr Milchick...

My miserable attempt in the tags...

[sadisopodhours]

I’m glad that I have basic-ass taste in music (Rachmaninoff piano concerto 3 is my favorite piece) because then I actually have opportunities to hear it performed live

If I were into another composer or piece (let’s just throw out Bortkiewicz for absolutely no reason) then I don’t think I’d be as lucky

[iamthemaestro]

genuinely kind of having a hard time coping with the fact that my cello might just have just. acquired an unfixable buzz over time that worsens arbitrarily with the weather

[urdtarah]

Ashton Nicole Casey (Ashnikko) 2018 vs 2024

[lamnwar]

seeing some of the discourse happening in the jjk fandom rn over the last chapter as someone who's mainly a knb girlie is funny bc like... I'm working with a sports anime there right??? seemingly not that deep compared to a shōnen like jjk bc it's just silly boys playing basketball

BUT THEN!! the character analysis and all the content we got from reading between the lines and diving in the psychology of the characters (heavy on aomine, akashi and murasakibara) is just so insane and I got used to it to the point where I feel like it's standard for everyone to have this kind of reading of (any) media text

and then I see the whole debate on the jjk ending and I realise that the way I've seen knb fans analyse their fav animanga is, in fact, not the norm. Or maybe it is, but it's very clear to me that a lot of jjk is to be read between the lines and it can get easily confusing bc of how much is implicit and when all I see is people getting pass something that is to me obvious, it just feels frustrating

[arttrampbelle]

Damn shang your tsungs!

Shang tsung was best in mk11. Just saying.

No shade but it's the truth. Sorry.

(Mini vent in tags sorry)

[lovefromkelly]

deleted Instagram from my phone just a few days back and have literally spent every day w my feet in a creek before work and every evening cooking a beautiful and sumptuous dinner and discovered new music and got a workout routine going again and have gone on 2 dates w my husband and went tubing w all my friends plus some new ones….. ok I didn’t know this was what y’all were talking about!!!!!!!!!!!!! everyone go spend an hour in the morning in a folding chair in the middle of ur local creek reading a book and watching a hawk bathe NOW NOW NOW I AM NOT KIDDING!!!!