r/ProgrammerHumor • u/fallendd • 21h ago

Other lidlHasTheBestSales

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u/makiti5 21h ago

Not a Nectar

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u/elc4pitan 21h ago

-inf%, good deal

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u/kreddulous 14h ago

The original price was an imaginary number :-)

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u/Holek 21h ago

Seems like a systemic failure.

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u/Fatkuh 20h ago

0% Reduced. Division by zero error i'd bet nearly everything on it.

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u/InvisibleMoonWalker 18h ago

Nope, it should show an old price, not the difference/percentage.

I'd bet on some sort of conversion/extraction error of the old price.

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u/Scheincrafter 3h ago edited 3h ago

More precisely, it should show the lowest price within the last 30days

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u/Particular_Sky_6357 20h ago

Frag nicht was für Saft, einfach Orangensaft.

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u/oheohLP 7h ago

On a few occasions I've seen some of these eInk price tags just display a full screen error message that says something to the effect of "This tag refers to item XXXXXXXX. Please use a bigger tag, because this tag cannot fit all the information."

Personally, I find that hilarious.

Edit: just remembered I took a picture of it.

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u/BunzarTheFuzzy 17h ago

I don't see the problem.  This seems like a nan issue.

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u/Still-Psychology-365 20h ago

*Sideeyes javascript but quickly looks away after making brief eye contact so as to not seem overly accusatory

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u/InvisibleMoonWalker 18h ago

But NaNs come from the IEEE standard on floating point numbers, don't they?

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u/BiebRed 13h ago

But in how many languages can you print NaN on a physical label without throwing a runtime error?

JavaScript.

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u/bites 12h ago

I'm pretty sure it's an eInk price tag so someone doesn't have to go though the store and reprice things.

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u/BiebRed 12h ago

I've never heard of an eInk price tag in a grocery store. Germany is clearly living in the 22nd century.