If you wish to bake an apple pie from scratch…

I don’t think that’s totally fair. The OS version number gets mentioned a lot more often than the year of a specific laptop. Furthermore it’s only made available to the general public close to the end of the year. The majority if its use is seen in a year matching the version.

I’m not saying it’s a perfect system but I can see why they prefer that then having people use iOS 25 for the majority of 2026.

Now that they are referred to by the SoC like M1 M3 etc, but they definitely were known by year models. I have a 2011 MBP, a 2017 MBP, and a 2019 MBP. I couldn’t tell you what cpu it has because Intel’s naming convention is something mere mortals do not know or care about. I know the 2011 had the last Nvidia GPU, the 2017 had the shit keyboard, and the 2019 is the last intel cpu.

To say that they did not use the years sounds like some one commenting on something they are not as familiar as they’d like the rest of the internet to think they are.

Also, people refer to the OS by the cat or California location. I couldn’t tell you what year snow leopard or mavericks came out though

> close to the end of the year.

That wasn't a consideration in the past. e.g.

"MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011)", introduced on October 24th 2011

https://support.apple.com/en-us/111341

> they prefer that then having people use iOS 25 for the majority of 2026.

I'm not blind to the advantage of their new naming scheme, and honestly they could name it iOS 2077 it would be their prerogative. It just sounds off to me to equate "they're just cheating a bit" to "it makes sense".

> "MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011)", introduced on October 24th 2011

Ah, yes: "macOS Late 25" just rolls of the tongue.

Perhaps instead of release/update macOS 25.2 they could go with "macOS Early 26". :)

> A group of pilots who had run out of hot cross buns on Good Friday decided to fly to the closest open bakery on Rottnest Island.

I can't believe that a bakery (the one bakery) on Rotto would be the closest open bakery...

I don't know about Australia, but in Poland, on Easter and Christmass, I can easily believe there would be no single bakery open in the whole country.

Also, it was before google maps, so they couldn't just google nearest open bakeries. It might as well have been "nearest open bakery they were aware of". Funny how modern tech made the terms "closest open" and "closest known open" virtually the same.

I would have taken the yellow book and called every bakery listed there to check if they were open. I think sometimes the impact of technology is overstated :)

You sat down next to the phone with the phone book for ten minutes.

"Closest open" was virtually the same as "closest known open", back when "flying" could only mean "I've got a fast horse".

In the state of Victoria, Good Friday is one of the two-and-a-half restricted trading days where shops aren’t allowed to open, except for a few categories, and, simplifying, small businesses: <https://business.vic.gov.au/business-information/public-holi...>.

(In practice, almost all bakeries will be small enough they could open, but I think most won’t.)

I know South Australia has even more restrictions about when businesses can open, legal and customary. I imagine Western Australia to be more like South Australia in such ways than like Victoria, but I’ve not been there and don’t really know.

And that’s these days. Back in the mid ’80s, I’m almost surprised there was a single bakery open in the entire country.

I haven't lived in Australia in many years so I don't know what it's like now, but back in the '80s when the first Rotto Bun Run happened I have no doubt that most businesses in Perth would have been closed for Good Friday. To hear the story of why the one on Rottnest was open you might have to fly there yourself :)

Bet the fuel was cheap back then too!

We no longer require a bun crisis to lodge this flight plan. Plenty of flights are made to Rotto for a sausage roll, any time of the year.

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I mean maybe but if you run your containers not via a GUI you get most of that for free or at worst with a docker logs or docker exec command.

Do people learn docker not via the CLI?

They do, then they realize that it's not the core component of their jobs (unless they're ops) and it is easier to press a "stop" button to kill containers, at least in their use case.

I did. Well, I did until I found lazydocker, a TUI that handles the majority of the day-to-day stuff that I need to do that isn't already written into tasks in my justfile: https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker

I for one have been using docker on Linux for years and have to use a Mac at work, and I'm totally baffled by the fact i need to install docker desktop to use the CLI and don't get why you'd need or want the GUI.

And like I'm not all anti-GUI, it's just that docker is one of those things I've never even imagined using a GUI for

You don’t have to install docker desktop. The cli can be installed via homebrew. (Co)Lima, podman, or others, can be used to create a VM running the docker engine.

It’s just that Docker Desktop makes it easy and also provides other integrations like file system sharing etc.

I mean, it's nice to have a GUI when running multiple containers on Docker, or Kubernetes, but I've never used Docker Desktop on my work Mac either.

For Kubernetes, something like K9s [1] or Headlamp [2] works fine. I remember seeing something similar for Docker but I can't remember the name.

[1] https://k9scli.io/ [2] https://headlamp.dev/

I think there's a difference in that dropbox was targeted at regular users, not just developers.

I think docker desktop and apple's containerization are both targeted firmly at developers only.

It's like programming, sure it's possible to write code in microsoft office or xcode or vscode, but all programmers I've met opt for ed or vi.

Developers are users as well, I don't get the macho thing that developers always have to do it the hard way.

I don't get the thing that by default present cli usage as hard way compared to gui.

This can sometimes be true, but on many ocasion be the opposite: For instance I've been spending 3 hours watching an IT support techician seemingly clicking randomly everywhere to debug why the corporate sec/antivirus on my laptop is saying my configuration is not compliant. The provided gui and accompanied interface to check events is strikingly uninformative, slow and inefficient and having a simple cli tool with a -status or -report flag that would give you the reason it complain would be much easier to everyone involved.

You're assuming that the CLI tool would be any better, which in many cases are just as bad when coming from the same company.

I am a huge Elixir fan and I would basically never reach for it to build a CLI.

Surely just a typo in the readme

Yep! There's supposed to be two examples there... Fixed now :)

I’ve seen cc impression machines within the past 5 years in small town america

In the UK the credit / debit cards I've had issued in the last few years have been flat, with details just printed, so that level of manual processing is presumably defunct here.

Don't forget chip & PIN is state of the art novel tech in the US. (From memory I think it was required here in the UK from Valentine's day^ in something like 2005.)

(^I remember the day better than the year because the ad campaign was something like 'I <3 PIN'.)

that is mostly because major US retailers sued Visa/Mastercard to make it not enforceable via lower interchange fees, since then they would have to change tens of thousands of point-of-sale systems at each one

I’ll be up in first class with my negative mass doppelgänger who travels with me so we both get a free flight.

I’ll ask the pilot how this is going to affect weight and balance to take my mind off the implication one of you is made out of antimatter.

Great call out. Amazon has an extremely effectively polyrepo setup and it’s a shame there’s no open source analog. Probably because it requires infrastructure outside of the repo software itself. I’ve been toying around with building it myself but it’s a massive project and I don’t have much free time.

The Amazon poly-repo setup is an engineering marvel, and a usability nightmare, and doesn't even solve all the major documented problems of poly-repos. The "version set" idea was probably revolutionary when it was invented, but everyone I know who has ever worked at amazon has casually mentioned that their team has at least one college-hire working 25%+ time on keeping their dependency tree building.

This really shouldn't be the case as of about 5 years ago, a massive effort was done to get all version sets merging from live regularly and things were much healthier after that. For what it's worth I suspect the usability of Brazil before then was still on par or better than the usability of a unkempt monorepo (which is unfortunately all too common).

Sounds interesting. Are there any public articles available describing this more?

West Wing, Chernobyl, Westworld Season 1, Breaking Bad

I wonder why "best show ever made" always has contenders made in the last 30 years. You Bet Your Life with Groucho Marx was such a fascinating show, and had some of the most intriguing, raw conversations with ordinary people, ever. Not to mention Groucho's natural instinct for wordplay that just never failed him.