• Erwin (unregistered)

    Maybe the Test Series is about Cricket matches?

  • (nodebb)

    I'll take a portion of Snark A please.

  • Sauron (unregistered)

    Snarklemma: I vote for the "Disney+++++" choice.

  • (nodebb)

    Are the ratings for Test Series legitimate or generated? Given how bad many shows are, it might be a new hit.

  • Brian (unregistered)

    I can believe it. I remember learning a few things about graph theory back in college. It all depends on how you define the cost of each segment. In this case, if you already have a truck making bulk transfers on the longer routes, then the cost per package is likely much lower than sending a small batch on a shorter leg.

  • ichbinkeinroboter (unregistered)

    Any cricket fans in the house?

  • ichbinkeinroboter (unregistered) in reply to Erwin

    ah, you were frist with that one!

  • (nodebb) in reply to mynameishidden

    Most likely actual users having fun with the fact they're testing in production. I seen it popped up for like 2 or 3 weeks. If I recall correctly, when it was live, only the 1-star reviews were of people actually complaining about the series for one reason or another (most complaints were because the series existing the way it did actually broke the iOS, I think, but mostly how bad Crunchyroll was at running the site).

  • Álvaro González (github)

    Is there some widespread bug in Nvidia Shield? It's been doing the same to me for some weeks now.

  • (nodebb)

    I agree with Brian--a logistics network doesn't populate all possible paths. Furthermore, a logistics network of this type is going to have preferred segment lengths--namely, the distance a truck can go in whatever hours the truck will be on the road. Or the distance a truck can go in the hours + one or more days when you have sufficient long distance load.

    An optimum tree will have a series of central hubs that serve entire areas, even if that means a package sometimes goes in the "wrong" direction. And even if there is a more direct route a truck might be full--better to send the package indirectly rather than have it sit there.

  • (nodebb)

    @LorenPechtel: Yup, came here to say the same thing, they're usually run on a hub-and-spoke model so moving things from one spoke to another without going via the hub isn't possible. I've had stuff delivered from locations I can almost see from here via the hub which is something like a two-day round trip, they're just not set up to move things sideways, which would probably require a special trip and manual loading/unloading, rather than via their scheduled and automated process going via the hub.

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