I would hazard a guess you could make 99.5% of transactions with EFTPOS in NZ - the exceptions might be a few vendors at farmers markets (most take EFTPOS), sausage sizzles/ad-hoc fundraisers, fruit honesty boxes on the side of the road, etc. Maybe only 85% would take credit/debit, though.
From my experience in sydney/melbourne more places take credit/debit than NZ but also more places are cash only. Not as much penetration for EFTPOS.
That's a desktop chip rebranded as Xeon, with a different set of feature flags. The server chips are a totally different beast, with many more cores, dual socket support, network on chip, AVX 512, upgraded connectivity etc.
These are different skylake xeons. Skylake E3 were available in 2016. They are limited to only 4 cores. The OP refers to the server-grade Skylake Xeons, previously referred to as E5 and E7. They will reach a lot higher number of cores.
This. I've been guilty of it, because sometimes it makes sense if you're in a hurry and want to add clever functionality (for example, make the whole row of a table be a "link"). Only to be overtly frustrated when you try to use the the app yourself. I'll wheel-click a table row and curse myself for not have thought that before.
Works for taxis too. An acquaintance of mine has regularly (once or twice a week) had to travel from his home to the airport, about a $100 fare each way. He's used the same taxi driver for about 10 years - knowing that either this driver (or someone the driver vouches for) will be on time every time.
(taxi expenses are covered by his work but personal car travel is not, so he doesn't drive, go figure)
I also know a good number of people who have a "regular" taxi driver. Mostly in southern Europe specifically, though. Sometimes it's because they have some connection to the driver (relative / friend-of-a-friend / friend-of-a-relative) so they want to give that person their business rather than a random driver. Other times it's just someone they got a recommendation for and like. Even some tourists do, if they're the kind of tourist who goes to the same place every summer (e.g. the same town in Crete).
From my experience in sydney/melbourne more places take credit/debit than NZ but also more places are cash only. Not as much penetration for EFTPOS.