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Digression: If you're red/green colorbind, the https://mcbroken.com website is pure frustration. All the dots look the same to me. Fortunately the iOS accessibility color filter works wonders. After enabling that (in deutan mode) I now see green and gray/purple dots.
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I don't know how old you are, but growing up in the 90s, my dad (a food scientist) was mostly fine with me eating crappy fast food once in a while. The only hard rule he had was "never eat soft serve ice cream". Before technology was all there, the machines back then were apparently nightmares in terms of safety.
They were good for our immune systems! Kids these days don't know how easy they have it!
Personally, I'd have liked to climb more trees and eat more dirt.
The actual map is at https://mcbroken.com/ And this headline is spectacularly un-useful. It's a map of which McDonalds have a working ice cream machine, obtained by attempting to place an ice cream order at every single store through the API. (The order doesn't actually complete if you don't pay for it, so no ice cream is wasted.)
Digression: If you're red/green colorbind, the https://mcbroken.com website is pure frustration. All the dots look the same to me. Fortunately the iOS accessibility color filter works wonders. After enabling that (in deutan mode) I now see green and gray/purple dots.
Red/green are pretty common status colors. What would you suggest, perhaps different shapes?
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Why? What are you going to do different if you are told it is broken versus down for maintenance? You're still not getting any ice cream?
The French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre was sitting in a cafe when a waitress approached him: "Can I get you something to drink, Monsieur Sartre?" Sartre replied, "Yes, I'd like a cup of coffee with sugar, but no cream". Nodding agreement, the waitress walked off to fill the order and Sartre returned to working. A few minutes later, however, the waitress returned and said, "I'm sorry, Monsieur Sartre, we are all o…
Just a note, the machines are not broken, they have shut themselves down for sanitary reasons. Ice cream, as a food that is very close to neutral in pH and without much in the way of preservatives, is a common source of listeria bacteria. To prevent serious health issues, the machine must be sanitized regularly. As I understand it, the process is involved, and any given McDonalds may not have a person with the time a…
Here's some detail, as someone that has worked with those machines before (internally and externally). In the good old days the soft serve and shake machines were taken apart every night and every piece was washed and bleach-sanitized by hand. Then it was reassembled in the morning. This would leave a lot of room for error and possible contamination in the process. And the sight of a shake machine hitting full pressu…
In the good old days the soft serve and shake machines were taken apart every night and every piece was washed and bleach-sanitized by hand.
Not only were the internals fully disassembled and sanitized, they were left to soak in the solution overnight. All that was left behind was the cylindrical plastic chamber, sanitized and left to air dry overnight.
The messiest part was lubricating the O-rings with a petroleum jelly. Failure to remove all that when cleaning seemed like a good vector for microbes.
The worst job of all was cleaning the fryer vats.
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I don't get it.
In the ice cream situation, broken and down mean the same thing. In the Sartre anecdote, milk and cream mean the same thing.
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Imagine McDonalds had invented AWS and called it McCloud.
When you order a VPS they would’ve asked you then: “Do you want to supersize your order? For $1 extra you can have a whole bucket of RAM instead of a small cup of RAM”
Not sure where this data is coming from but for months now I've been ordering ice cream through the McDonalds app only to find out when I get there that the machine is broken and that they can't cancel or refund the order, which ultimately results in a stressful cash refund. It's happened multiple times at various locations around Manhattan. Eventually I'll just use this method to get 30-day cash loans on my credit c…