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  • When my wife and I break down and go to an AMC theater we always plan to arrive 30 minutes after the “start time”. We still catch a trailer or two before the movie actually starts.

    We just found an “art house” theater about 30 minutes away and saw Marty Supreme there last night. The theater probably seats about 80 people, the screen is maybe 15 feet wide. The sole guy working there (the owner maybe) was very welcoming, and concessions were reasonably priced. Two tickets & some snacks were still under $30. The guy also went up front to welcome everybody and point out the restrooms that were off to one side of the screen for those of us who had never been there before. Then he ran up to the booth to start the movie. Two trailers, no commercials, and the movie started. We’ll definitely be going back there.




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    My employer uses Akamai as a CDN (and security) provider for their websites. Akamai has an optional tool called Image and Video Manager that, in a nutshell, optimizes images for better site performance.

    Basically you put a high quality image on your website, and when Akamai retrieves it the first time it optimizes its color palette, compression, size, and format for multiple devices. Each derivative image is cached by Akamai for 30 days at a minimum.

    So while you may put a 1000x1000 JPG with a quality of 95%, an Android user may be served a 200x200 image with 80% quality, and it may be a WEBP or PNG format instead of JPG. Exactly which derivative image is served is based on criteria like the web browser being used, the viewport size, etc.