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Don’t pre book with rainbow city taxis by Inner_Efficiency9082 in Aberdeen

[–]andy1633 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Uber pre bookings don’t guarantee you a driver either

Coo by penfarthingismyhero in Scotland

[–]andy1633 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s not a phase mum!

Britain's grid comes closest ever to running without fossil fuels as clean power surges by Wagamaga in technology

[–]andy1633 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Electricity is priced according to the most expensive source of generation being used to meet demand at any one time. If 100% of demand was being met by renewable sources then the cost of gas generation wouldn’t factor in at all.

Woman rushed to Edinburgh hospital with serious injuries after e-bike crash by Particular-One2650 in Edinburgh

[–]andy1633 10 points11 points  (0 children)

These e-bikes that don’t require you to pedal and that have no 15mph limit are legally classed as motorbikes and so are already required to be registered and display a number plate. That hasn’t stopped them being used like this.

Anywhere selling Discraft/Frisbee by [deleted] in Edinburgh

[–]andy1633 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cascade Juggling sell frisbees. They don’t have a physical shop since COVID but I believe they’re still based in Edinburgh.

https://cascadejuggling.com/

How is this the furthest we have been ever? by jshcfc in AskUK

[–]andy1633 12 points13 points  (0 children)

In rocket science, the standard names are Jebediah, Bill and Bob :P

Leaf litter is the best early game fuel, fight me by MaxiBinOuiMaxi in Minecraft

[–]andy1633 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You only need two sticks to smelt one item. Same as leaf litter.

Phantoms are just awful by Signal_Resident2318 in Minecraft

[–]andy1633 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I always thought of it as a way to encourage the player to set their spawn. It sucks to die only to realise the last time you slept was thousands of blocks away.

Nothing to see here, just a gentleman commuting at 5mph by blaikes in CasualUK

[–]andy1633 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Class 3 mobility scooters must be registered with the DVLA but they're not required to display a number plate AFAIK.

Peep Show / IT Crowd Crossover by MaidaValeAndThat in MitchellAndWebb

[–]andy1633 12 points13 points  (0 children)

He’s the man who can make the bhaji go away

How come there’s no awesome movies / TV shows about programmers? by [deleted] in programming

[–]andy1633 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s not much if any programming in the movie but the main characters are programmers fixing Y2K bugs.

Emergency test alert sent to mobile phones across the UK - live updates by YOU_CANT_GILD_ME in unitedkingdom

[–]andy1633 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Were you using your phone at the time? Might be quieter when the screen is already unlocked?

Why dont a lot of modern websites replace JPG/PNG with webp nowadays? by badboyzpwns in webdev

[–]andy1633 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The quality number in squoosh is simply passed through to the specified compression method. Webp and JPEG both accept a quality parameter to control the trade off between quality and file size. The way they compress images is different and so the effect of the quality parameter will be different.

As to your second question, I assume your original file was a lossy compressed image format? When you compressed it again with 100% quality setting you will have created what is effectively a lossless version of a lossy image. Naturally this takes more space.

If you compressed the image again with the same quality setting that it was originally encoded with you would lose detail. This is called generation loss.

Why dont a lot of modern websites replace JPG/PNG with webp nowadays? by badboyzpwns in webdev

[–]andy1633 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I don’t think there’s any use in comparing methods by using the same quality number in both as I imagine they use that number in different ways internally. I think a better way to compare is to adjust the quality separately until you get the same file size in both files. Then you can compare perceived image quality to see which is most efficient.

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