gt24@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Grocery store prices are changing faster than ever before — literally. This month, Walmart became the latest retailer to announce it’s replacing the price stickers in its aisles with electronic shelf.English
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2 months agoThough others have said multiple states have laws against changing prices during the business day.
Suddenly it makes a lot more sense why Walmart doesn’t want to be open 24 hours a day…
ArsTechnica has a bit more detail. I’ll quote the important bit below.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/07/crowdstrike-fixes-start-at-reboot-up-to-15-times-and-get-more-complex-from-there/
This seems like an interesting application of a “race condition”. They are hoping that the update outraces the program starting up enough to crash…