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Reminds me a bit of how in the UK the guinea coin ceased to circulate decades ago but it's still used for bidding on racehorse auctions.

1 guinea = 1.05 pounds

You purchase the horse in guineas, seller gets paid in pounds, auctioneer keeps the missing 5% as commission.

It's more likely that the flight in question was using the three letter ICAO code in its passenger facing flight number. I have never known a three character IATA code to be used despite it technically being within the specification.

Load Balancing 3 years ago

Definitely doable with HAProxy + lua. I've used it extensively for load balancing stateful apps.

If you mean the Find My Device app it only asks for foreground location permission so I would assume the actual device "beacon" is part of the system not that app.

I'm not really a fan of trying to make commands safer via aliases. I fear it encourages bad habits that could hurt you if you use an environment that is missing them.