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.

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.

(I know nothing about the franchise)

The first game in 2003 was well regarded but a bit of a commercial failure. It was planned as a trilogy but people thought sequels might not happen

https://youtu.be/PXPsjvMlLOo

Then in 2008 this teaser about waiting was released confirming a sequel was in the works , since then Duke Nukem Forever has been released and BG&E2 now holds the title for “longest development for a AAA video game”.

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

Its a great series.

Sony did it a huge disrespect by dumping Thieves in Time on PS3 in 2013 without any compatibility with PS4.

This was one of those games with prerendered backgrounds and polygon based foregrounds/props like Resident Evil 1 - 3, Final Fantasy VII - IX, etc.

When I emulated the gamecube version I had to lock it to 640x480 or the 2D/3D elements were clearly running on different layers.

How did the remaster turn out?

1989/1990 is when 16-Bit platforms like SNES, Mega Drive, and Neo-Geo launched. These 4th gen consoles were very far from “monochrome graphics” and were thought of as “rad” at the time.

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.

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

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.

So, this joke?

https://youtu.be/4RAyWl5n4ek

external doesn’t work to run your games on it

Thats not quite true, any ps4 games you have are happy to use an external ssd and then you can save your internal storage for the titles that actually need it.

Its what the kids want these days.

Just a smidge more and they beat the original run:

• Crash Bandicoot - 6.82 million
• Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back - 7.58 million
• Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped - 7.13 million
• total: 21.53 million

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/116437-most-games-of-a-videogame-series-in-the-ps-one-top-10-global-sales-chart

It would have been nice to play it without the framerate drops.

I felt the same at launch with Breath of the Wild.

I would have been happy to play a more powerful hardware variant that focused on being a home console. Instead Nintendo offered more portable versions :/

Do you get vouchers?

I find buying vouchers brings the per-title cost down to au$67.5.

In comparison Sony is charging au$125 for a 1st party title like the last of us part 1 so Nintendo feels like they are priced competitively.

I’m not sure I agree this is an “Announce Trailer”

• Microsoft has the highest Market Cap
• Walmart has the highest Revenue
• Saudi Aramco has the highest Profit

“Richest” isn’t really a term you can compare without further clarification.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_revenue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_by_market_capitalization

I think that depends on your metric.

Market cap, revenue, profit, assets? They will all have a different leaderboard.

The idea of ferns, as a decorative plant, is most definitely a meme.

However you are right that ferns, as a lifeform, fall under the category of genes.