I heard the “OUTCH!” In this image.

In my experience, releasing the clutch without adding throttle will only get you moving in a diesel car.

Gasoline engines will stall much faster, which is part of the reason learning vehicles are all diesel.

Keep at it.

Nothing really to it, you just need time and lots of practice to build up the “muscle memory” for it, until it becomes little more than a reflex.

I’m in the same boat.

In general, there’s just no way I could ever justify buying a Nvidia card in terms of cost per buck, it’s absolutely ridiculous.

I’ll fork over 4 digits for a gfx when salaries go up by a digit as well.

Actually, a Musk party might be the best thing that happens to the US political system.

Not because it would be a good party, but because it may lower the bar for more parties.

the researchers have shown for the first time that mRNA can be delivered into the cells where HIV is hiding, by encasing it in a tiny, specially formulated fat bubble. The mRNA then instructs the cells to reveal the virus.

Am I the only one kinda scared about mRNA treatments?

I have always wondered how a zombie apocalypse could come about, like, from a biochemical perspective, and mRNA seems to me a very good candidate.

Obviously it has a massive potential to cure otherwise incurable diseases, like genetic defects…

Edit: Sheesh thanks for the downvotes, teaches me to ask a question on Lemmy.

Are sheep that friendly that they cuddle with people?! I think all sheep I’ve seen are pros at running away…

I meant it as in “you now have billions of dollars to spend”, not so much as in “you’re now a bloodsucking money hoarding bastard that will destroy anything and anyone on their path to appease your raging lust for more money”, but yes I agree, I can see how those are almost synonyms.

You’ll be handsome, but you’ll also be a billionaire.

I mean…?

Is this a job posting from the British Empire days?

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.