Ah yes, the “round to 9” method. That one is a worldwide plague.

I’ve seen displays with the lower sized digits, but usually it’s the cents: €149^.99

Adding fractions of a cent to a price display is just so… avaricious. (I’m sure there’s a more common word for this but I could find it)

Huh interesting. Thank you for the insight.

So the price of unleaded is 2.74 + 9/10 of a cent?

Isnt that just 2.749? Why show it as a fraction?

Sorry, I’m really confused.

Edit: Oh, is this to accommodate other fractions like 3/4 or 7/9?

What’s the 9/10 after the price?

It really depends what its used for.

Anything that is public facing would never work without constant maintenance and upgrades, be it a computer OS or some complex piece of hardware.

I never failed to solve a problem with gay sex, so this must be true. My sample size is zero, but still the concept stands.

Cock your head! Do you see it?!

Oh yeah, it looks like a massive…

I wholeheartedly agree that monopolistic practices should be nuked instantly, but I disagree that this was ever well enforced. Microsoft got away with murder in the 90’s before they went to court and even then, feels like they got a slap on the wrist…

I think that this particular case is very far from that, but it does start to smell the same.

“Starting early next month, in May, my time allocation to DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency] will drop significantly,” Musk said. Musk said he’d continue to spend a day or two per week at DOGE, but said he will be “allocating far more of my time” to Tesla.

Tesla stock jumped 5% in after-hours trading after Musk’s disclosure.

Ah.

I mean, it’s a different kind of lovable. Capivaras have that “I know what you did and I’m not happy with you but I’m not going to make a scene right now but just you wait until we get home mister” look. Which is endearingly sweet when you’re not the direct recipient, and even if you are, you know it comes from a place of love.

There’s got to be a git repository out there that has a smoking gun in its history…

I sit down, because I’m the one who has to clean it.

Cool story bro.

You’re utterly delusional. If this system has done anything is to stiffle small, independent producers and consolidate power in megacorporations.

This is the kind of crap you’re defending: https://patents.justia.com/patent/12268585

This is a random, recent patent from P&G. Read that bullshit, and then tell if if what they’re describing isn’t the most generic design for a diaper or sanitary napkin ever?

“One permeable layer facing the wearer, then a semipermeable layer that tries to only allow liquid to move away from the wearer, then an absorbing layer, then an outer impermeable layer”

Oh boy, if it wasn’t for that patent, I’d be pumping 500 million dollars into building a factory so I can flood the market with my cheap fake products! - said nobody when they read that.

It’s hilarious how far removed from reality your ideal of patents is…

it costs millions of dollars to get a manufacturing process up and running and in a good enough state to where it can actually work out financially. Without patents, your competitor can just take all of that work and investment and just copy it with the benefit of doing it right the first time, so they’re able to undercut you on cost.

This argument makes no sense. Manufacturing lines are built all that time for unpatented products, plus a competitor can’t just “take all of that work and investment”, they will need to put in money to create their own product, even if it’s a copy they still need to make it work, as well as build their own production capacity.

They’ll be second to market, and presumably need to undercut price to get market share… This is a very risky endeavour, unless the profit margins are huge, and in which case, good thing that there’s no patents…

If the research is so costly and complex (pharmaceutical, aeronautical,…), then it should be at least partly funded by the government, through partnerships between universities and companies.

Patents are not a solution.

Isnt that like all phone makers recently?

Continue sucking dick in the airport bathroom stalls, but now he can sleep with a clear conscience because it’s the scanners fault.

Oh look. Another Nintendo console that I’m NOT going to buy.

My last one was a used Wii that came hacked and I could load anything into it, and I’m perfectly happy if that’s the last Nintendo console I’ll ever buy.

Not gonna lie, I was expecting this to end with The Undertaker throwing Mankind off Hell In A Cell.

As a software house, running our own infrastructure would be a nightmare in so many ways… Just thinking of all the hardware that needs to be deployed, and how many sites worldwide we’d need just to provide the same level of service we have now, and then being able to scale up massively during peak time but have all that capacity go to waste during low season, then dedicated teams on all sites to handle emergencies 24/7, the massive loses of revenue anytime the services are down…

“Just in-house it” is definitely not the answer, there’s a reason AWS makes so much money.