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Re:The algorithms that make Instacart roll on Friday March 26, 2021 @03:34PM (#26596016)
1 user searches for a product, and then clicks on 1: although you estimate this transaction generates 1kb of data, in fact this is more on the order of 1kb x the number of candidates, so a few MB.
Except this accident happened on tracks amtrak doesn’t own - and on the tracks amtrak owns the system is already in place.