3 seconds matter!
2How on earth am I suppose to score a IRK when I don’t even have a fair chance? I need one of you internet guru’s to explain how this global clock is seconds off. If I’d taken out a 3rd and 4th device I’m going to bet none of them would’ve been the same! Seconds matter when we’re talking about making a big score of a IRK and this just blows!
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I have great speed and I can rarely get one anymore. I usually give up. I admit it, I’m a quitter. Less frustration.
@lisaviolet
yeah, same here. I am not willing to invest the emotional capital in the acquisition of an IRK. I will try half-heartedly if I happen to be there when it comes up, but not will not make the effort to be at my screen every time some item runs down the clock.
@chienfou @lisaviolet
WOW, you know… This last Mehrathon was the first one that I wasn’t ALL emotionally invested in. After I somehow fell asleep only a hour into the whole thing, when I woke up several hours later I totally forgot it was going on! Now THAT was different! Maybe it’s finally wearing off, am I not a newcomer anymore?
Hmm… ¯\(ツ)/¯
The clock thing STILL through me off, I just didn’t think there could be such a difference.
@lisaviolet @Lynnerizer
yeah, and to top it off, the phone on the left is (presumably) the older phone, has a ton of notifications open across the top, and is STILL the one that is running ‘faster’. /Shrug
(I notice that one also says ‘sold out’ while the other doesn’t, yet it is >45 seconds into the IRK so there is NO way they are still available. Wonder if having clicked/refreshed the page had any effect?)
@chienfou @lisaviolet @Lynnerizer I don’t have to worry about these things. When mine finally loads (latency 170+), unless there is a glitch at meh or like the most recent one I was at a friend’s house with blazingly fast internet and got lucky and got one, the page already says sold out. I have learned how far into the future to count so it doesn’t reload the same ‘old’ page, but doesn’t matter for getting one with so few sold. The odds are so far out of my favor - especially since it loads sold out. With almost no odds to get an irk most of the time I am far less likely to stay up late, get up early, check all the time. Especially since we can go back to see what
morning save, side dealstuff is being recycled here to buy. Or not.The clock isn’t seconds off. Your browser takes time to display the page.
All of the “ticking” takes place locally based upon the initial time when you first load the page.
You should always assume your counter is slightly off and refresh a little early anyway.
Also, new deals don’t change over immediately at t=0 anyway. There is typically a delay for the new deal page to get updated.
@Limewater
Say what? I’m still digesting that.
Funny thing is that on the phone that’s seconds behind, I have to hit it twice. Every single time it’s too soon on the first tap, by the time it comes around the 2nd time it’s always sold out. I haven’t been able to snag one since they cut the number down to 20 something. So frustrating, going to try to digest your explanation again now.
@Lynnerizer The page has a count-down timer on it.
When you press “reload” on your browser, it takes a few seconds for the page to come up. You click. Your phone finishes whatever else it was doing and then sends a request for the updated page. This takes some amount of time.
On the other end, the server gets your request, finishes whatever else it was doing, and eventually gets around to sending the page back to you. The page is large, so the data for it is broken up over several packets, and your phone sends several packets back to the server as well during this process.
At some point during all of those packets going back and forth, the server sends you the part of the page that says, “There’s only 3 minutes and 12 seconds left on this deal!”
Your phone gets that packet some time later and waits for other packets before having enough information to display the page for you. This whole process can take seconds.
When your phone finally displays the page, it says, “There’s only 3 minutes and 12 seconds left on the deal!” And starts ticking down the timer locally, on your phone.
But it took several seconds waiting on packets and rendering the page before it displayed it. Maybe a packet got lost and your phone had to ask for it several times.
So that’s why the count down timer can be off by a few seconds.
Time.gov doesn’t have that problem because it does extra work to ensure displayed time is accurate to within a few milliseconds.
I count one more second after it hits zero before reloading. it’s often too soon, but sometimes it’s too late.
/giphy that’s what she said
@mike808
Seconds, not inches! MEN!
Lol
@Lynnerizer @mike808
I think the reference is “length of performance” time…
@chienfou @Lynnerizer @mike808 Why waste minutes when you can get it done in seconds?
KuoH
@kuoh @Lynnerizer @mike808
I can honestly say that in my 60+ yrs I have NEVER thought of that as wasted time!
@chienfou @kuoh @mike808 The lot of you (except @Lynnerizer) have twisted, dirty, one track minds. Oh wait - maybe you are 15 year olds who snuck porn into their rooms, or some girly magazine? Because, well, that’s all you ever get anyway? (snicker - they really need a snicker emoji)
@Kidsandliz
nope, just a healthy libido (and I have tons of t-shirts that are over 15 yrs old!)