thecosmicfrog

> Compared to a standard JPEG, a JPEG XL file is up to 55% smaller

I still find JPEG "XL" to be such a bizarre name. I would intuitively think it would result in larger file sizes.

As soon as a streaming service starts having availability issues, it will garner a reputation very quickly and lose customers just as quickly. Being able to serve N amount of content reliably and consistently (even if less than M amount) is still a strong demonstration of good engineering practice in my opinion.

On that point, I can't honestly recall a time I had Netflix streaming issues that weren't because of a problem on my side. Maybe I've just been lucky though, so ymmv.

It has just been introduced in Ireland under the name "Re-turn".

That's the one!

Written by Tim Bajarin, who appeared on a few episodes of Computer Chronicles. I'm currently binge-watching episodes of it so I recognised the name.

I think my favourite feature of this repo is the `README.md.d` directory. That's actually a nice idea. Could maybe drop the `.md` I guess.

SFO has some appropriately Silicon Valley-themed waypoints: the SSTIK5 departure procedure has "CISKO", "EBAYE" and "UTOOB". SFO also has the SNTNA2 departure which has "KYNNG", "KRLOS" and "SNTNA" (in that order).

LAS has the GAMES2 arrival which has "FUULL", "HOUZZ" and "BYNGO".

My personal favourites, however, are at Philadelphia (PHL), where there are there two arrivals named after cheesesteak restaurants: JIIMS4 and PAATS4.

SFO has some appropriately Silicon Valley-themed waypoints: the SSTIK5 departure procedure has "CISKO", "EBAYE" and "UTOOB". SFO also has the SNTNA2 departure which has "KYNNG", "KRLOS and "SNTNA" (in that order).

LAS has the GAMES2 arrival which has "FUULL", "HOUZZ" and "BYNGO".

My personal favourites, however, are at Philadelphia (PHL), where there are there two arrivals named after cheesesteak restaurants: JIIMS4 and PAATS4.

AWS CLI uses JMESPath.

HCL has been the infrastructure-as-code language I've enjoyed using most in the last few years of doing platform/DevOps'y stuff. The only time I feel like pulling my hair out is when trying to do complex loops. Anything beyond a simple `for item in items` tends to require a bit of... thinking...

When in an Uber from the airport in San Francisco, I remember seeing a giant billboard for Twilio. I had a similar reaction.

Found on Reddit (posted by u/NeillDrake) and thought HN would find it interesting.

Time to add a `--stardate` flag to the `date` command then?

Sparky!

This is why Star Trek uses "subspace" as a plot handwavium[1] to explain how a starship can hail Earth from hundreds of lightyears away with seemingly no latency.

[1] handwavium, my favourite new word: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=handwavium

Agreed wholeheartedly. Techmoan is one of those channels I'm always excited to see a new video from.

As a virtual pilot on the network, "Over to UNICOM. Thanks for the ATC. SEEYUH!"

The Semantic Web:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web?wprov=sfla1

Is anyone else not at all bothered by the tabs "being buttons"? I feel like I'm the only one sometimes. Are they really that jarring for first-time users?

I tell Dublin tourists they should definitely check out Temple Bar for one night. It's loud, has dozens of pubs and restaurants, is packed with people, and is just generally good craic[1]. I don't go there myself all too often, but it's not like I don't go to Times Square at least once when I visit NYC. I think we forget sometimes that the average tourist is on holiday and pretty happy to just switch off and go with the flow.

[1] https://www.ceastudyabroad.com/blog/content-creator/2017/12/...

It's where he feels safe,

Thank you. I'm glad to hear someone saying this. I had a battery in an XPS 13 9360 which became swollen. After much support pain, denial of fault, and internal escalation, they agreed to send me a replacement battery where I "just" had to pay for the engineer's time (the machine came with home call-out service for hardware replacements).

Within weeks the replacement battery started to swell.

For a supposed enthusiast laptop, I really feel they don't understand that enthusiasts expect premium customer relations.

I actually feel for the designers and engineers behind the XPS line. They seem like a bunch of super passionate and invested folks, but the support story for what was clearly a safety issue has really put me off buying from Dell in the future.

It's interesting how so many people sounded the death knell on the A380 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Production of new A380s even ceased around this time. Now it seems demand for that size of aircraft is only increasing (at least for specific hub and spoke models).

They used to be the nicest looking things in the rack:

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Xserve_G5.jpg

The aircraft involved was an Airbus A321, so definitely not a "Flight Engineer". Likely a maintenance engineer (please correct me on the job title if I'm wrong here). Basically people who have to know the intricate details of a specific aircraft's systems inside-out.

I gather that the "eventually" part is what Snaps are attempting to solve/bypass.

Availability in the Ubuntu Store, presumably.

He tasks me... He tasks me and I shall have him!

peg-dhcp, for the uninitiated:

https://handwiki.org/wiki/Peg_DHCP

It seems to work fine on Firefox for Android. I wonder what the author's concern is that he'd recommend Chrome?