alt Hacker NewsAmtrak booking system experiencing major issues amid nationwide FAA ground stop
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I've been wanting them to have an api for years with a TOS that you cannot resell tickets or make any additional fees from the sale to discourage SEO snakes from hijacking things.
A more reasonable front-end could be made without much effort and a very low monthly overhead to host since it's mostly a proxy
Require the same upsells with the insurance and credit card offer I don't care, that's not the problem I have with the site.
Always fun to live through a “textbook example” of something; in this case it’s a cascading failure (1) in transportation infrastructure
The word of the day is: cascading.
Coming soon: car rental sites, hotel booking sites, food delivery services, taxi and ride share services.
It's not like anyone predicted the apocalypse would happen today.
Jensen Huang making sure he takes the country down with him?
The FAA hug of death
Now that US AI psychoses is reaching pandemic levels, I wonder if governments outside the US will accelerate their migration plans. Too bad we can't socially distance ourselves, wash hands and wear masks.
When I get back to the office on Monday I'm going to start making steps to make sure that skill atrophy gets limited so that we don't fall into the same helpless incompetence.
I mean I can barely get the Amtrak site to work on a good day.
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Our systems are collapsing under the weight over our own vibes.
Amtrak's site has always been the worst example of a national rail website