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Cake day: July 14th, 2023
  • Kelly@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Tip?English
    171·
    7 months ago

    So you can shit on me

    No, I’m genuinely curious about the different clients we, the Lemmy community, have available. Knowing their strengths and weaknesses helps people make informed choices.

    OP couldn’t post a picture as a picture format?

    GIF is a picture format. It may contain multiple frames or it may not but it is a perfectly standard pallet based image format that has been around for 37 years (for comparison its older than zip or PDF). This is not the same as linking to a 1 second YouTube video.

    My current client (Boost) is also treating it as unzoomable, but that is clearly a defect in my client. Even if it was an animation I would want to be able to zoom. Its something to raise with the developer.

    In the meantime I just opened the link in my browser:

    https://yall.theatl.social/pictrs/image/eb5063df-4151-47d4-aeda-ac16b2f34f62.gif

  • Kelly@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why are fuel perks at grocery stores so ubiquitous?English
    1·
    7 months 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 https://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.

  • Kelly@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How did we switched from "Dinosaur are giant lizards" to "Dinosaur are giant birds"English
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    7 months 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 having 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.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feathered_dinosaur

  • Kelly@lemmy.worldtoPlayStation@lemmy.world•Do You Add Extra Storage to Your Playstation?English
    3·
    7 months ago

    My PS4 had a 2TB SSHD so when the PS5 launched with backwards compatibility I bought a 2TB USB SSD for my BC library (otherwise the PS5 internal storage capacity would have been a significant downgrade). Then when they added software support for the extended storage slot I added a 2TB M.2 card to support current gen titles. They both have their uses.

    Of course as tends to happen they are all full anyway so new installs have to operate on a one-in / one-out policy.

  • Kelly@lemmy.worldtoComic Books@lemmy.world•World War II BatmanEnglish
    3·
    7 months ago

    Comics traditionally come out every month.

    Yeah thats what I would have thought but it looks like batman was a bit more varied.

    The wikipedia page give their schedule as:

    • Quarterly: #1–5
    • Bimonthly: #6–80;
    • Eight times a year: #81–168
    • Nine times a year: #169–177
    • 10 times a year: #178–237
    • Nine time a year: #238–246
    • Seven times a year: #247–253
    • Bimonthly: #254–259
    • 11 times a year: #260–270
    • Monthly: #271–715 except for biweekly status for #436–439, 448–453, 464–469, 477–482, 492–497, 627–628, 643–644, 660–661, 682–683, and 691–692
  • Kelly@lemmy.worldtoComic Books@lemmy.world•World War II BatmanEnglish
    6·
    7 months ago

    I was trying to work out what the “anniversary” was and found this discussion of the cover:

    Batman issue No. 12 was published by DC Comics in August and September 1942 and sold for 10 cents. The yellow cover shows Batman and Robin in a Jeep, with a speech bubble from Batman saying “War savings bonds and stamps keep 'em rolling!”

    This anniversary issue features the stories: “Brothers in Crime,” “The Wizard of Words,” “The Thrill to Conquer,” and “Around the Clock with Batman.”

    Batman made his comic debut in Detective Comics No. 27 in 1939 before receiving his own self-titled line of comic books in 1942.

    https://www.si.edu/object/batman-no-12%3Anmah_1446360

    But wikipedia claims:

    The character, created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, first appeared in Detective Comics #27 (cover dated May 1939). Batman proved to be so popular that a self-titled ongoing comic book series began publication with a cover date of spring 1940.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(comic_book)

    So it looks like:

    • the Smithsonian has the launch year of the Batman comic wrong,
    • August/September is neither the anniversary of the first appearance of the Batman character or the launch of the Batman comic.

    Does anyone know what the anniversary is anniversary they were celebrating with this issue?

    Edit: clarifying my question.