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All of New Zealand does this internally. You only need to go through security for international flights. You can show up 5 minutes before the flight.

pretty much everywhere in the Netherlands has contraptions like this, small though, not fridge sized. Didn't see orange concentrate anywhere.

Minute maid actually tastes better than Tropicana to me (can't stand that brand), been getting one from Spain lately at Costco (Don Simon) that's pretty good, less sweet.


Standard in France and Belgium as well.

I have never liked Tropicana or Minute Maid, but about... 30 years ago? We used to have a brand called Fruvita that actually tasted good but it got bought by Tropicana, the taste changed, and we just stopped buying orange juice.


If the author sees this. I think the lower case t would benefit from a pixel above the cross, similar to how the lower case k goes up one more pixel. It looks a lot like the capital T with how it is now. It is very well done though. Thanks for sharing.

I think I'd go with something like

     x
    xxx
     x
     xx

didn't even think about the stem on the bottom. Originally I was thinking just the cross

     x
    xxx
     x
     x
But I think you're right.

Agree about lowercase t. I was surprised the lowercase l didn't look more like

    xx
     x
     x
     x
     xx

that's the same thing with the mach kernel and OSX, but you don't see anyone clamoring for one of the richest companies on earth to open source their OS.

tons of domesticated deer though? What about Bison.

Had never heard of domesticated deer, interesting. I guess there must be no milk production using them.

My old thinkpad was thicker but not heavier. Way more ports, didn't need dongles.

Safari is a shinning example of how wrong this is. Sorry.

The fact that they tie the mobile version to the OS version is just ridiculous.


not only Safari, several other apps such as Music (which also has several annoying quirks) never understood why they did not get their own lifecycle if they have dedicated teams for each of those apps

If you're interested, it's to reduce cost. It's incredibly expensive to build something like Music or Maps. If each version is tied to an OS version, it keeps you from having to explode your testing and fixing cycle over time.

This is especially notably when you want to support all the latest OS features.

My company keeps the testing cycle smaller by only adding new OS-dependent features to its mobile app when the minimum supported OS version gets incremented and a feature is supported in every supported OS version. That means that the iOS app is only now getting features that were added in iOS 15 in 2021.


So exactly why is that a big deal when unlike Android - they actually keep their phones updated?

It's a deal when they stop updating. It is true they provide OS updates for longer than most, but many people use devices, especially ipads for way longer than the OS supported period. And those people are stuck on an old unsupported browser without being able to update or install a 3rd party one.

As I said in another reply, Apple just did a security update for the iPhone 5s released in 2013 January of this year.

The latest version of iOS runs on iPads back to 2919.

The latest version of Chrome requires the version of Android - released in 2019.

So how is it better?


Chrome and Google being bad doesn't make Apple's restrictions good. That said, Android lets you install a 3rd party browser which can choose to keep supporting old devices. iOS locks everything to using the safari engine.

And the latest version of Firefox requires the version of Android released in 2017… is that really a win?

Unlike Android indeed, when you maintain a perfectly working phone that happens (by accident or force of nature) to live longer than the official lifetime some executives in a remote office had decided to grant it, the web browser cannot be updated any more. Just the single most security sensitive piece of software of any computer. Who would have guessed people were going to complain!

The iPhone 5s - released in 2013 - just got an update January 2026.

The latest version of Chrome requires the version of Android released in 2019. Even phones that old aren’t getting other security updates.

Is that really the argument you want to make?


They give occasional security patches for the most critical bugs. They don't do full ios/safari updates. The iphone 5s is on ios 12.

And neither does Google. The latest version of Chrome requires the version of Android released in 2019. The latest version of iOS supports my iPad released in 2019.

> the denominations I can get from the ATM

Is this for real? We can request 5s and 10s from the atm, along with 20s and 50s.


Many ATMs in the US just spit out 20s, though there are some where you can specify your bills.


> But if you can’t, I could see it being professionally embarrassing

I had a boss that typed with one finger on each hand, it was laughable, but he was an incredible programmer, so it didn't affect him at all.


> and this all sounds exactly like how reusability might not work out at all for the Falcon 9 from 10 years ago

I think a lot of it depends on whether they can make the reuse of the second stage work without having to redo stuff constantly like the shuttle. Reusing the booster will obviously save tons of money and make launches cheaper, but they're competing with themselves here. How big is the launch market with cheaper launches? We don't actually know.


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