Right, and it can improve foreign investment, although exchange rates also tend to reflect the health of the economy and not always about the government actively trying to achieve this. Undervaluation can lead to some problems though, such as loss of productivity due to weaker competition or higher inflation.

Google docs that changes the language of the user interface when you go to another country. WTF?

You left during a recent high point in the currency. I remember well it unexpectedly climbing from 62c to to the USD in 2003 to parity by 2008 because I was living in Ontario and working 1099MISC since 1999 for a Californian company and watched my USD pay diminishing in value. Letâ(TM)s be honest, the exchange rate is back where the historical trend was taking it.

Yes, along with copy and paste and other Continuity features.

Kyiv, not Kiev.

Itâ(TM)s definitely about the law requiring pricing to show the final price. I get it that tax rates are variable based on locality in the US, even within a state or a city. Thereâ(TM)s much less variability here in the UK (VAT is the same rate everywhere and only varies if certain goods are deemed worthy of a discount). No reason why taxed and tax free prices canâ(TM)t both be shown in the US. This is also common in some places here, especially where businesses will be buying items with a VAT exemption.

The only time I come in contact with Edge is in my Windows VMs or remote servers and I want to download something directly in to the VM on to the server, or I accidentally click on some Microsoft crap that opens the default browser. My annoyances:

• * It eventually forgets what my open tabs were from the last session. It does this frequently. I have tabs in Safari I've had open for for years, and that's the way I like. You fail Microsoft.
• * Configuring Edge is a headache. Default choices are shit and changing that involves going through too many steps.
• * Whatever the browser core, for decades now, Microsoft defaults to a busy noisy page. Their product manager must have been introduced to browsers in the late '90s when everybody had to have a portal. Most of my Windows access is to remote servers, so the last thing I want is it opening an animated page that kills the performance of the remote connection. Sure, it's not as bad as it was 20 years ago when latency was higher and bandwidth was lower, but still annoys the shit of me. Just give me a minimal page by default.
• * It's not even an independent product anymore. Using it means supporting Google. No thanks.

They couldn't make their browser successful when they developed it in-house. They had to make and cuts opted to wrap somebody else's browser, and even now, that can't make that successful.

Good luck getting FFmpeg running on a console from 1996!

Actually, at Demuxed 2025 recently, somebody did make a presentation detailing how they got a Sega Genesis (Megadrive) to stream and playback video. What an awesome hack!! Itâ(TM)s here: https://github.com/joeyparrish...

FFmpeg, written primarily in assembly language

Not even close. 90% C, 8% assembly, at least according to GitHub.

The Air Passenger Duty tax is significantly more expensive: https://www.gov.uk/government/...

If society doesnâ(TM)t want this, they should pay more taxes and hire more police and spend on other schemes to provide more opportunities and education, etc. Doing it through the back door and hiding the cost in the price of your groceries is piecemeal and less effective.

Getting your children to do things around the house and garden or taking them to a firing range has nothing to do with home schooling and can be done by any parent anyway. The fact that you mentioned "likeminded parents" sounds more like indoctrination.

Theyâ(TM)re not really 24, 30 or 60. Theyâ(TM)re stupid fractional rates like 30000/1001. I wish NTSC fractional frame rates would die, along with interlacing.

LOL. Thanks for the witty reply; I wish /. would let me just react like every other modern app or site.

Iâ(TM)ve never had a vacuum that lasts for such a short period of time. My current one (a Dyson) has been going 14 years and no reason to believe it will die anyone soon. I got rid of the 12 year old Hoover I had before only because I moved country and it wouldnâ(TM)t work with 220V. What is your wife doing to break so many vacuums, or are they just cheap crap that fails frequently? Youâ(TM)ve spent way more on vacuums than I have.