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Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (rusky: ; 1700–1771) byl italský architekt působící v carském Rusku, představitel ukrajinského a ruského baroka.

Život
Narodil se v Paříži jako syn italského sochaře a architekta Carla Bartolomea Rastrelliho (1675–1744). Do Ruska přišel v roce 1715 spolu se svým otcem.

Ve svých stavbách kombinoval poslední trendy italského baroka s tradičním moskevským stylem. Stavěl v typickém velmi bohatém a majestátním stylu pozdního baroka.

Jeho prvním důležitým pověřením byla nabídka na výstavbu paláce pro bývalého vládce Moldávie, knížete Dmitrije Kantěmira. Jeho paláce jsou známé extravagantní nádherou a bohatstvím výzdoby. Po nástupu Alžběty I. na ruský trůn se stal oblíbeným dvorním architektem. Kromě toho roku 1723 vytvořil bronzovou bustu Petra I. Velikého.

Dílo

Rusko
 Zimní palác v Petrohradě vystavěný v letech 1754 až 1762
 Stroganovův palác
 Letní palác (postaven 1741, zničen 1797)
 Kateřinský palác v carském letním sídle Carskoje Selo

Ukrajina
 Kostel svatého Ondřeje v Kyjevě
 Mariinský palác v Kyjevě, nyní slavnostní sídlo ukrajinského prezidenta

Lotyšsko
 zámek Rundāle v jižním Lotyšsku, letní sídlo kuronských vévodů
 Jelgavský zámek, zimní sídlo kuronských vévodů.

Externí odkazy

Italští architekti
Památky v Rusku
Narození v roce 1700
Úmrtí v roce 1771
Muži
Narození v Paříži
Úmrtí v Petrohradu
Barokní architekti

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Netflix and YouTube asked to limit services to prevent network crash
The EU has asked content providers such as Youtube and Netflix to cap their services to ease the burden on broadband networks caused by increased traffic.
It is feared networks could crumble under the surge in content streaming, online gaming and remote working brought about by the coronavirus pandemic.
Although providers insist network infrastructure can cope with traffic fluctuations, Brussels has asked streaming services to limit content to standard definition – as opposed to high definition or 4K – and users to consider reducing data consumption.
Coronavirus internet connection
Domestic broadband is well equipped to handle evening traffic surges, but social distancing and quarantine policies introduced by governments across the globe are further aggravating these periods of high traffic.
Scott Petty, CTO at UK telecoms firm Vodafone, says peak traffic is no longer confined to the evenings, but now extends from midday to 9pm.
Meanwhile, Telecom Italia recorded a 75% increase in Italian data traffic over the weekend, with online games such as Fortnite and Call of Duty responsible for a significant proportion of the jump.
According to Thierry Breton, a European commissioner responsible for digital policy, telecoms companies, content platforms and users share a "joint responsibility to take steps to ensure the smooth functioning of the internet" during periods of quarantine.
Netflix has conceded additional traffic could pose problems, but gestured towards existing measures that allow the company to adjust content resolution based on available bandwidth.
"Commissioner Breton is right to highlight the importance of ensuring that the internet continues to run smoothly during this critical time," said a Netflix spokesperson.
"We've been focused on network efficiency for many years, including providing our open connect service for free to telecommunications companies."
Via Financial Times
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Q: How to get GHCi running correctly within ansi-term window in Emacs? For some reason, I'm loosing the up-arrow and DEL keys after launching GHCi from within an ansi-term window in Emacs.
(These keys work as expected from within the ansi-term window, before launching GHCi.)
And RET doesn't produce a line feed, just a carriage return.
I don't observe any of these oddities when launching GHCi from my normal Terminal application under MacOS X.
Using Emac's view-lossage feature I find:
 <menu-bar> <Terminal> <Character mode> [term-char-mode]
 <up> [term-send-up]
 <return> [term-send-raw]
 <backspace> [term-send-backspace]
 <menu-bar> <Terminal> <Line mode> [term-line-mode]
 <up> [previous-line]
 <return> [term-send-input]
 <backspace> [delete-backward-char]
 C-h l [view-lossage]

(Note: The above was taken after launching GHCi from within the ansi-term window of Emacs.)
And it looks like I may want to switch to Line mode while running GHCi.
(I normally run the ansi-term window in Character mode, because it gives me an experience more similar to working in the Terminal application.)
It looks like M-p will recover past commands.
So, if I can figure out how to get the up-arrow remapped to M-p while in GHCi, then I should be pretty close to my usual GHCi-in-Terminal experience.
However, there's one remaining problem: I'm still not getting a line feed when hitting RET.
And this is really screwing things up, both asthetically and functionally.
It's strange, because the RET key typed at either the ansi-term prompt, or the GHCi (launched from within ansi-term) prompt (with the ansi-term window set to Line mode) both send the same command: term-send-input.
And the ansi-term does the right thing in response to this command.
So, why doesn't GHCi do the right thing?
Perhaps, I need to remap RET to: CR/LF; term-send-input while in GHCi?
Is this even possible (i.e. - doing application-specific key remapping withing the ansi-term window)?

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