Kelly
@Kelly@lemmy.world
- Comment on Does different parts of the world use different standards for water pressure similar to voltages? 1 day ago:
But which regions code are you referring to?
- Comment on What's up with all the "___punk" stuff? 4 days ago:
It was a thing back in the day. Its just that the day was 30 odd years ago.
- Comment on What's up with all the "___punk" stuff? 4 days ago:
Punk Punk is an umbrella term:
They varied considerably, but all have one of the following in common with cyberpunk:
- A world built around a particular technology that is pervasive and extrapolated to a highly sophisticated level.
- A gritty or transreal urban style.
- A cyberpunk-inspired approach to exploring social themes within a Speculative Fiction setting.
- Comment on Why are fuel perks at grocery stores so ubiquitous? 6 days ago:
The numbers on fuelwatch have rolled over for the new day now but when I was looking last night there was around 5-10% variation within each day but also a 15-20% price drop from Tuesday to Wednesday. By min-maxing across both days I could a min that was 25% lower than the max.
The range would be much less impressive if we only had access to a single days prices.
- Comment on Why are fuel perks at grocery stores so ubiquitous? 1 week ago:
For a pretty extreme example consider, as you say, a large 25-gal tank, and filling up from dry twice a week, at an average of $0.10/gal non-optimal price: you pay an annual premium of $260 bucks not to drive yourself batty hunting for pennies, and burning at least a tiny bit more fuel to do it.
Since 2001 here in WA we have a system where petrol stations have to lock in their price for a day by announcing it the afternoon before. The highlights used to be mentioned on the local news and newspaper (maybe they still are, who knows?). But more importantly they all get published on www.fuelwatch.wa.gov.au so its pretty trivial to visit the site in the afternoon and check the stores along the commute home, plus you can also compare their tomorrow price to see if you should wait until then.
Looking at that site right now I can see 25% variance across my commute without even considering a detour. Its a pretty handy system.
- Comment on How did we switched from "Dinosaur are giant lizards" to "Dinosaur are giant birds" 1 week ago:
The idea is quite old:
Shortly after the 1859 publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, the British biologist Thomas Henry Huxley proposed that birds were descendants of dinosaurs. He compared the skeletal structure of Compsognathus, a small theropod dinosaur, and the “first bird” Archaeopteryx lithographica (both of which were found in the Upper Jurassic Bavarian limestone of Solnhofen). He showed that, apart from its hands and feathers, Archaeopteryx was quite similar to Compsognathus.
But known fossil evidence is quite young:
One of the earliest discoveries of possible feather impressions by non-avian dinosaurs is a trace fossil (Fulicopus lyellii) of the 195–199 million year old Portland Formation in the northeastern United States. Gierlinski (1996, 1997, 1998) and Kundrát (2004) have interpreted traces between two footprints in this fossil as feather impressions from the belly of a squatting dilophosaurid.
- Comment on Does it seem odd to track my lifespan? 1 month ago:
These guys sell a physical tracker so there must be some interest in the concept.
- Comment on Don't Get Excited about Assassin's Creed Mirage Coming to the App Store; See Supported Devices First 1 month ago:
Assassin’s Creed Mirage will support the iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPad Air (M1 Chip or above), and iPad Pro (M1 Chip or above). In terms of compatibility, the iPhone requires iOS 17.0 or later and a device with the A17 Pro chip or later, while the iPad requires iPadOS 17.0 or later and a device with the M1 chip or later.
- Comment on Another hit to physical media as Target lays out plans to ditch in-store DVD and Blu-ray sales 2 months ago:
Huh, IIRC Aussie target dropped music and video media back in 2018. I can buy DVDs at my supermarket but none of the dept stores have any physical media.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Huh, TIL the crew was killed.
I only ever wanted a single player open world game and was disappointed I couldn’t reset my progress.
On December 14, 2023, Ubisoft announced that the servers will shut down after March 31, 2024, rendering the game unplayable; the game’s servers later shut down that day.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crew_(video_game)
This price tracker shows they were selling the title up until the day of the EOL announcement in December.
www.dekudeals.com/items/the-crew
As this EOL is unlikely to have been something they decided that morning it seems clear Ubi happy to sell the game to suckers knowing they would pull the plug 110 days later.
- Comment on Adobe putting spam in notification tray on Windows 2 months ago:
Yes, they know. The message is asking the user to change from their default to Adobe Reader.
- Comment on Adobe putting spam in notification tray on Windows 2 months ago:
As far as I can tell outlook will call out the title of the first 3 emails in a minute, then if further emails arrive you get the general message.
Its really just a ‘we are rate limiting our notifications, check your inbox’ message.
- Comment on Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability. 2 months ago:
There are more junk vintage games than good ones.
Anyone who has iterated though a full romset will agree with this.
Just like movies, music, books, etc. the classics are fondly remembered gems and the rest are easily forgotten.