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TIL that "nginx" is pronounced "engine-x", and not "n-jinx" (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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nginx ("engine x") is an HTTP web server, reverse proxy, content cache, load balancer, TCP/UDP proxy server, and mail proxy server. […] [1]

I still pronounce it as "n-jinx" in my head.

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Title (website): "nginx". Publisher: NGINX. Accessed: 2025-02-26T23:25Z. URI: https://nginx.org/en/.
- §"nginx". ¶1.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

NGNX, the other tetragrammaton.

Although I'm Jewish, so I should probably write it N-NX.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tetragrammaton cleric

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm OOTL.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That is the protagonist from the (IMHO excellent) movie Equilibrium. He describes himself as a "tetragrammaton cleric." Prior to your comment, I didn't know the first word had any actual real world meaning, so that's where my mind went when I saw you use it. (Apologies if this is disrespectful to the intent of the word.)

As an interesting side note, supposedly that movie is what got Christian Bale cast as Batman.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Sounds cool, will add to the watch list.

(Apologies if this is disrespectful to the intent of the word.)

I'm hella atheist, for the record, so no worries. Any actual Jewish practice was a few mothers ago, but mentioning it added both humour and another hint for people who know the concept but not the word.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

Equilibrium is a really boring movie. Imagine if The Matrix's fight scenes were centered around a gunfighter whose primary strategy is to stand in one spot and that doing so was a plot point and all the neat plot points of The Matrix were replaced with a plot about not feeling emotions.

Feel nothing, stand in one spot. Movie done.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, actually looks like it was critically panned, too. I do love a good dystopian speculative fiction, but maybe not the top of the watch list.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

It was indeed unpopular at the time and not widely known now. I personally actually enjoyed the action (I think the final gunfight is one of the best or at least most fun I've ever seen), but I understand how it would be unappealing to some.

As I mentioned, Christian Bale's performance is allegedly what got him the role of Batman, so make of that what you will.

It's also worth mentioning that there are enjoyable qualities to the movie even discarding the action. If and when you do watch it, I hope you enjoy it!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Well, you're wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Ha! There's probably some other layer of theology there when you consider that that G stands for "Gine" pronounced like "Djinn."