As a software engineer who lives on the 58th floor this is gold!!

D-oh-double-G! No seeds, no stems, no sticks

Honest question, why aren’t pills dispensed by machines?

I get that a pharmacist should review the prescription. And let’s say you even want employee-customer interaction; which is great.

But dispensing X pills from one bottle to another bottle is a solved problem right?

Machines cost a ton of money and need to be maintained?

As those two variables change, I'm sure they will replace the dispensing function for pharmacists. In fact this already does happen at a lot of pharmacies these days. Machines put the pills in bottles, then a pharmacist hands the bottle to you.

I think that’s the idea behind those centralized pharmacies like Amazon health. Easier than putting a pill dispensing assembly line in every CVS.

A pharmacy tech actually counts the pills if they move them from Bottle A to Bottle B, it is not particularly time consuming, and it isn't a particularly skilled position. Starts at $14 an hour around me and tops out around $23.

They are in large setups. Including mail order and bulk dispensing places (like Walmart pharmacy—most pills are dispensed at central locations and delivered to the store prepackaged).

Well, in many countries, pharmacies just dispense prepackaged packs and bottles. No counting involved.

Who packages them?

Automated machines in pharma factories.

That doesn’t make sense if someone walks in off the street for a prescription you’re not going to get factory package medicine.

I could imagine a machine like this would cost something on the order of $100k, require ongoing maintenance and wouldn't really solve any problems/bottlenecks at your typical local pharmacy.

It's not like you could replace the pharmacist with a machine.

Coin machines are really solid at accepting money. I feel like it’s a solved problem.

Edit: I’m dumb, the order of operations is backwards. You’re right, it’ll never be solved.

There are pill counter machines! it's a solved problem for sure.

I’ve never used either of those tools. Do they work well?

Isn’t the compute shortage temporary?

I don’t believe in 5-10yrs we’ll be in a shortage anymore

We have Times New Roman! Stop designing new fonts!

The difference here is that new emojis replace older designs. If designing a new font meant Times New Roman could no longer be used, that would be a problem.

Uh, the platforms? Have you tried to use two different emoji fonts on a web page? Or a text editor?

No, because I don't care about emojis. You care about emojis, so you should try it.

The problem is that it is not enabled by the mediums we use to communicate.

and are copied and pasted from emojicopy.com and getemoji.com respectively. They appear differently on each website, and yet identical here when copied and pasted. It is not possible for me (or anyone at this time) to comment with two different graphical representations of the same emoji in a comment on this site.

edit: apparently HN is a no fun zone and doesn't allow emojis, but give it a shot and you'll see that they change when you paste them in a new page.

Take the cat from the 9to5 link in the other comments. If I like using the smirking cat, for instance, to indicate potentially devious behavior, I will no longer have that option because they are turning it in to a smiling cat.

It would be possible in editting software, of course, just like fonts, but in messaging (the original and arguable core use of emoji) not so much.

I can't comment with more than two graphical representations of the letter Q either. All I get is Q and Q - I can't make HN display a cursive Q.

Fair point

Really cool.

If possible, being able to “brew install” on a Mac would be killer

A heat pump that cools and an Air Conditioner are the same thing

I despise their subscription model, but I bet it’s minting them tons of money.

Individuals leaving them (including myself to Affinity) is a drop in the ocean to them

I use Arch btw

Good point. If I were facing the problems they have, I'd surely would change the distribution.