Kelly
@Kelly@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why are fuel perks at grocery stores so ubiquitous? 20 hours 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 day 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" 2 days 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 Microsoft wants to hide the 'Sign out' button in Windows 11 behind a Microsoft 365 ad 2 months ago:
lost revenue
You can be sure this is retail only.
Enterprise Windows won’t have this feature and now appears to have added value for corporate customers.
- Comment on Google mocks Epic’s proposed reforms to end Android app market monopoly 2 months ago:
“Epic’s filing to the US Federal Court shows again that it simply wants the benefits of Google Play without having to pay for it,” Google’s spokesperson said. “We’ll continue to challenge the verdict, as Android is an open mobile platform that faces fierce competition from the Apple App Store, as well as app stores on Android devices, PCs, and gaming consoles.”
Is this the mocking? Its not a very good mocking!
- Comment on NASA engineers discover why Voyager 1 is sending a stream of gibberish from outside our solar system 2 months ago:
- Comment on Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools 2 months ago:
What do you mean?
Are these scripts being distributed via github or disabling telemetry on github?
- 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 Since the invention of the printing press and mass-produced books in the 15th century, silent letters/syllables in written texts have unnecessarily hastened deforestation 8 months ago:
A lot of paper is wasted because we tend to use standard “document sized” paper (A4, US Letter).
For content that is not designed to fill the page (poster or whatever) it will fill a random amount of the final page and on average half of that sheet will be wasted.
If smaller paper sizes were used more often it could save a fair bit.
- Comment on Since the invention of the printing press and mass-produced books in the 15th century, silent letters/syllables in written texts have unnecessarily hastened deforestation 8 months ago:
Another example: “Dam that river!” vs. “Damn that river!” could be confused.
- Comment on Since the invention of the printing press and mass-produced books in the 15th century, silent letters/syllables in written texts have unnecessarily hastened deforestation 8 months ago:
True context helps - but I wouldn’t want to consciously smurfify the language.
- Comment on Since the invention of the printing press and mass-produced books in the 15th century, silent letters/syllables in written texts have unnecessarily hastened deforestation 8 months ago:
They might be silent when spoken but still offer disambiguation between words/meanings when written e.g. “dam” vs “damn”.
- Comment on AMD denies blocking Bethesda from adding DLSS to Starfield | Starfield DLSS mod locked behind a paywall 9 months ago:
The implication is of course that less successful titles will not be ported either because the company runs out of money or feels they are better off working on their next title than investing more resources on porting a middling title to a second choice platform.
- Comment on AMD denies blocking Bethesda from adding DLSS to Starfield | Starfield DLSS mod locked behind a paywall 9 months ago:
If small devs are expected to support every platform day one that increases the barrier to entry.
A world where small teams start their release on one of two platform they find advantageous and then port their successful titles to other platforms after is probably safest for them and offers the most product diversity for consumers.