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Last Comment Wins just ended and I have a new idea. Rules are simple again:

Be the last comment that gets a timestamp with .000Z and you win 10k sats + any zaps on this post!

So this means your reply needs to be inserted into the database at exactly the start of a second.

On desktop, you can check your timestamp after you replied by hovering over the relative time with your cursor like this:

https://m.stacker.news/33167

The timestamp is not viewable on mobile yet unfortunately.


I consider this to be harder so I raised the bounty to 10k. I actually think no one will be able to achieve this within 3 days and after that, surely everyone will have given up ...

10,000 sats bounty

@MiddleWay correctly pointed out that I mentioned last comment but I wanted to write first comment. So the rules are actually:

Be the last first comment that gets a timestamp with .000Z and you win 10k sats + any zaps on this post!
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Thanks for the clarification.

What if one of your replies is the first, though?

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Then I'll ignore it

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Lame.

You should have put in some fine print that we all have to zap you 10k if you're first.

Btw, do you know how to do this, or is it just going to be random?

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Btw, do you know how to do this, or is it just going to be random?

One could collect measurements of the time you hit reply vs the timestamp that shows up to find out how early you need to be but there is jitter, clock skew and drift so I think it would still be mostly random.

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That’s what I figured from MiddleWay’s comment.

Still, someone should be able to greatly improve their odds compared to my 1/1,000 if they put some thought into it.

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Being off by 1ms is going to hurt

Fortunately it's just 10k sats... for now...

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what? This is going to be impossible...
Unless someone writes a program for it..

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I imagine even with a program it's going to be hard due to network latency etc.

But I'm going to write a script to verify timestamps!

This is futile. I made a macro in AHK to click a mouse button at a given ms, but the delay to the database still seems random. Besides, the rules are clear that there will be no winner, because last .000Z has no time limit.

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Oh, sorry, I wanted to say first comment that gets a timestamp with .000Z hence the title. Will create a pinned comment to mention this

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I still haven't figured out how to use the timestamp function

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gab eth ni siht tog I

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siht*

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sknaht

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Are you guys even trying or are you just randomly hitting reply? lol

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ylper

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Thanks for injecting fun into the mundanity of the sub!

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That's fun

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Is that sarcasm?

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No, I made that comment really early, when this seemed like it might be fun.

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Fourth try!

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I like that

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I understand it’s still running. Let’s see this time

shazam!

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Still trying!

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Let´s go for another try!

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Third try!

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it is like a bingo, do say 'bingo'?

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This is my second try ! Will see!!

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You know, I just had a random thought. I love SN, what about you guys?

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is this paid out yet?

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No, it would say paid like here then

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ONE HUNDRED Z

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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do we have the winner then! Or can anyone else do better?

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Only 0ms counts

Also, 8ms was and still is the best so far

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so will the nearest to 000Z win then?

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no

there is no time limit on this bounty

37ms!

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Not bad attempts, both were within 100ms

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I didn't meme it enough :(

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I noted the time to enter in the previous bounty. I even put a reminder with alarm set in my mobile. But, I forgot and that's what I was thinking about 'how interesting was that post' for someone who is a lazy lad.

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Gosh yesterday I forgot.. let's see today.. 😅

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why not set the bounty at 10,000 BTC because it has no time limit, so you don't ever expect to pay it?

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What's the probability for a hit? 1/60? How does it compare with... let's say, dying of covid?

If I edit and save a second time, do I get another chance of winning?

Edit:
Oh I now realise this takes ms into account, making it even more unlikely... 1/60000?

What's your life expectancy? Because the last .000Z comment may arrive very very far in the future....

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That's impossible!

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Ha ha that’s funny!

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I think this is the closest so far!

.992

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Almost!!

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just arrived from the saloon to see this

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first comment? How to play?

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did I win?

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lol, I honestly got scared for a second that the second comment already proved me wrong because I saw +00:00 at the end. But no, you didn't win. Your reply is off by 311 milliseconds.

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how to see the timestamp?

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no bad! you were near with 47ms

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Yes, closest is still 8ms: #556470

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