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We're experiencing a high level of traffic. You're in a virtual queue, thank you for waiting.
Your estimated wait time is:33 minutes
(BC's government site - new vaccine cards today. Thanks EDS/IBM/whoever scaled this puppy) 
TTFN - Kent
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A virtual queue?...what, one that doesn't really exist? a faux queue? 
Sorry Kent, I couldn't resist! Hope it doesn't get me banned...nothing personal. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Yeah - they had that on the Ontario vaccine booking site. A long bar showing how far off the front of the queue you were, an animated man walking (not reading the news, taking toilet breaks, making breakfast, yelling at the kids next door and occasionally coding, as was the case here).
This was for the day my age group (over 21's) were allowed to get their shot. Virtual doors opened at 8am. At 7:50 I was over 60,000 behind the head of the queue.
And what was really weird: Once you were in, you could take all the time in the world. Which you had to, because their system was so, deeply, terribly, useless at actually trying to find you an open slot.
Totally artificial throttle.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I would expect the usual NaN minutes.
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I've seen that before with an online sale. It was to prevent the site / servers from being overwhelmed.
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Can you not count to ten in French if you have a huit allergy?
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I am une-decided.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Could you explain for us mere mortals 
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
modified 7-Sep-21 13:39pm.
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The French number 8 (huit) is pronounced the same as "wheat".
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Ah ok thanks
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Don't you hate it when you have to explain a joke?
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I used to but now it gives me a great feeling of superiority, a warm fuzzy - as long as it's not my joke I'm explaining!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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...or when you get to nine you decide that's a neuf!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Quatre it out, you guys.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Well that’s it guys. Chris sinq the thread. We must six immediately!
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Mona Lisa cut repaired with blemishes (11)
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MACULATIONS
Anagram of "Mona Lisa cut": "a blemish in the form of a discrete spot, such as an acne scar"
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Yeah that's the one 
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May I inquire how you were lead to the solution Every list of synonyms I traveled did not provide it I am assuming it was as new to you as it is to me Do you have software which generates anagrams and checks their definitions - Cheerio
"I once put instant coffee into the microwave and went back in time." - Steven Wright
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To be honest, I don't have a clue: my head is stuffed with useless sh*t that springs up when I need it. Mostly to annoy people in Trivial Pursuit games ...
Probably, it came up in a crossword, a book, a scramble game, or somewhere else equally random at some point and I looked it up to find out what the heck it meant.
Anagrams aren't that difficult - they generally leap out at me, or I write them down in a "cloud" and see if anything connects.
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The approach I take when I am fairly sure there's an anagram is just to examine the letters. Here the clue ("blemishes") is plural, so it's a fair starting point to assume the word may end in s. There's no e so, unlike blemishes, it's not es at the end so we've now simplified it to a 10-letter anagram. We've got all the letters t, i, o and n so there's a good chance it ends "tions". Great, now we just have a 6-letter anagram to solve. At this point I write down the 6 letters in a random pattern (not all on one line) and just gaze at the centre of the group. I'm not "reading" the letters, just looking at them as a group (or a cloud as Griff has better termed it). Sometimes this works and the word "pops out", sometimes not. If not, with 6 letters, it's not too hard to just start trying sequences that would be pronounceable. In this case, I can fairly readily spot the combination "macula" which I associate with macular degeneration, a particular type of sight loss. I don't know exactly what causes it, but a quick search on "macular" tells me it's (1) a small spot or (2) a small discoloured spot or blemish. Put the two together, MACULATIONS. Look that up to verify. (At this point the definition tells me maculations also refers to the pattern of spots or markings on an animal or plant, and at that point I remember it's a word I've come across before anyway, and now I understand its derivation!)
In short, look for likely patterns from the letters you have, then shake up the leftovers until they sound likely, then verify. I've been out today so haven't looked at the clue till this evening, but I suspect I'd have got there...
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Well said Derek
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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