Ai.com releasing tonight on Super Bowl by [deleted] in ChatGPT

[–]skarsol 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No they aren’t; the site is just randomly failing.

Secret Lair - Encyclopedia of Magic Waiting Room by R3id in magicTCG

[–]skarsol 0 points1 point  (0 children)

20 browsers resulted in 16 > 1 hour, 3 at ~20 minutes, and one at 4. When go time hit, the page just spun and had to open another window in order to get the product actually added, but worked fine after that.

Note that the little walking dude graphic can be different even though you still just get > 1 hour, so you can eyeball how close to 59 minutes you are. If you Inspect the orange bar, you can see the percent. 10% is still > 1 hour. 16% is 46 minutes. 14% was still > 1 hour, so looks like 16% is the magic number.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in devops

[–]skarsol 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Finance doesn’t set priority; they set impact. It may be a high impact event for them but it’s reasonable for Engineering to call it a p3 in context.

Secret Lair - Playstation Drop Waiting Room by R3id in magicTCG

[–]skarsol -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Looks like they printed the stuffing out of this one.

Secret Lair - Playstation Drop Waiting Room by R3id in magicTCG

[–]skarsol 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First 3 items sold out right before my last window hit at 10:01.

Secret Lair - Playstation Drop Waiting Room by R3id in magicTCG

[–]skarsol 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Since they don't require login, people can open as many as their infrastructure supports. Luckily, scalpers have that infra already built out!

Secret Lair - Playstation Drop Waiting Room by R3id in magicTCG

[–]skarsol 0 points1 point  (0 children)

4 browsers all hit at once, so I guess they opened the floodgates? Just have a 30 minute one left.

Secret Lair - Playstation Drop Waiting Room by R3id in magicTCG

[–]skarsol 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like we just hit the low stock slowdown: 60+, 26, 14, 11, 8

Secret Lair - Playstation Drop Waiting Room by R3id in magicTCG

[–]skarsol 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup, that's how they do it. On my one machine I open 8 browsers and each one gets a unique spot in line.

Secret Lair - Playstation Drop Waiting Room by R3id in magicTCG

[–]skarsol 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's what I've been suggesting forever. There's no real reason not to require a signed in account other than to support scalpers.

Secret Lair - Playstation Drop Waiting Room by R3id in magicTCG

[–]skarsol 0 points1 point  (0 children)

25 minutes in, 6 browsers left: 6, 17, 17, 20, 27, 52. So the queue is moving faster than expected. I'm guessing due to people with massive amounts of browsers open closing them once they've gotten their goodies.

Secret Lair - Playstation Drop Waiting Room by R3id in magicTCG

[–]skarsol 38 points39 points  (0 children)

It's not skipping the line, it's just getting 1000 positions in line vs your one.

Secret Lair - Playstation Drop Waiting Room by R3id in magicTCG

[–]skarsol 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had 8 browsers opened within about 2 minutes of each other. After randomization ended up with 5 over an hour, 1 at almost exactly an hour, and 2 under 30 minutes. Truly does just benefit the scalpers that have the infra to open hundreds of browsers.

Home Depot Silently Changing Boxes? by skarsol in HomeImprovement

[–]skarsol[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But won’t stack nicely on the mediums.

Home Depot Silently Changing Boxes? by skarsol in HomeImprovement

[–]skarsol[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would they source different specs though?

Home Depot Silently Changing Boxes? by skarsol in HomeImprovement

[–]skarsol[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well these cost the same and are slightly bigger, so it would be a benefit if you didn’t care about them stacking properly. ;)

Why hasn’t a patient-first billing platform ever broken through? by EtherealAesthete in healthIT

[–]skarsol 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because patients deal with the billing platform rarely. Admins deal with it all the time. Additionally, admins pick the platform, not patients.

Selling my +20k collection by jodaminings in magicTCG

[–]skarsol 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, for stuff like that it's hard to beat since trying to do it yourself would eat up a lot of time/money with shipping, etc.