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Surprising Economics of Load-Balanced Systems

Surprising Economics of Load-Balanced Systems

✨ Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The M/M/c model may not behave like you expect. I have a system with c servers, each of which can only handle a single concurrent request, and has no internal queuing. The servers sit behind a load balancer, which contains an infinite queue. An unlimited number of clients offer c * 0.8 requests per second to the load balancer on average. In other words, we increase the offered load linearly with c to keep the per-server load constant. Once a request arrives at a server,…
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Compare the mood of America’s 250th anniversary with its 200th anniversary in 1976

Compare the mood of America’s 250th anniversary with its 200th anniversary in 1976

✨ Explore this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: America 250,american history,bicentennial,u.s. history 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: This article originally appeared on PolitiFact. A country in a sour mood. High inflation and gasoline prices. A culture war is raging. A president with declining approval ratings. America at 250? In fact, America is in 200 and 250. As the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding, a look back five decades to 1976 — the year of the nation's bicentennial — reveals remarkable similarities to today. Read more: How Americans celebrate the country's big 2-5-0…
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Candice Carty-Williams: ‘People feel very attached to Queenie’ | Candice Carty-Williams

Candice Carty-Williams: ‘People feel very attached to Queenie’ | Candice Carty-Williams

🔥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Candice Carty-Williams,Books,Culture,Fiction,Television ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: One of the questions Candice Carty-Williams has spent the past few years batting away is whether she is Queenie. It is perhaps inevitable: her best­selling debut novel followed Queenie Jenkins, a twenty­something south London journalist navigating heartbreak, racism, terrible men and an escalating sense that her life was slipping beyond her control. Like Carty-Williams, Queenie is south London-born, Black and works in media.It is a slightly predictable question, and one I avoid asking when we meet at her bright pink office…
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Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You – Ryan Moulton’s Articles

Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You – Ryan Moulton’s Articles

🚀 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: There are colors that I want to show you, but I can’t. They exist in the real world. You probably saw some of them today, but I can’t show them to you on a screen. A digital photograph can’t capture them, and your screen can’t display them. No game you’ve ever played has contained them. Unless you have specialized equipment, they are entirely absent from the digital world. Most of them are cyans. On screens we live a life starved of cyans. It is shocking…
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Add to playlist: The wild pop of Zara Larsson co-writer Helena Zhao and the best new songs of the week | music

Add to playlist: The wild pop of Zara Larsson co-writer Helena Zhao and the best new songs of the week | music

🔥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: from Aarhus, DenmarkRecommended if you like Caroline Polaszek, Zara Larsson, Grimesthe next The first project is coming later this yearYou can't get a better start to professional songwriting than co-writing nine-tenths of a critical album — namely Zara Larsson's Midnight Sun — and then getting a Grammy nod for it. It is an enviable starting point for relaunching Helena Zhao's solo career. Over the past few years, the Chinese-Danish artist has released a number of singles and EPs — her standout…
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Designing a backyard deck for my house

Designing a backyard deck for my house

🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Words: 3,500 Reading Time: 15 minutes This post details my process for designing a backyard deck for my house. Since this post is about showing how to produce the drawings for the deck in order to get a building permit, in this post I'll skip the details of the building process. See the links to the drawing exchange format (dxf) files at the bottom. When we closed on our house almost 10 years ago, it was missing a deck in the back of the house.…
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Anya Taylor-Joy is going to be a fantastic elf assassin in Hunt for Gollum. But it’s a movie we don’t need film

Anya Taylor-Joy is going to be a fantastic elf assassin in Hunt for Gollum. But it’s a movie we don’t need film

💥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Anya Taylor-Joy,JRR Tolkien,Lord of the Rings,Andy Serkis,Books,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: toLet's be honest: Anya Taylor-Joy would make a great elf. If any man could fly from tree to tree as if woven of thin thread and starlight, or appear on a moonlit branch as if he had just been summoned by a haunted stick, he would be the star of the Queen's Gambit, the Witch, and Furiosa. She's perfect for Lord of the Rings, and it's not at all surprising that she's been chosen to play…
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I Stored a Website in a Favicon

🚀 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A while ago I wrote about storing two bytes inside my mouse's DPI register. It wasn't useful. It wasn't practical. But it did something unfortunate to my brain. Once you've successfully hidden data somewhere it doesn't belong, you start looking at everything as potential storage. A monitor is storage. A keyboard is storage. A BIOS splash screen is (maybe) storage. A favicon is storage. And yes, here we are. Every website has a favicon. It's that little icon in your browser tab. Usually you upload…
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‘It’s time for it to end’: Ebon Moss-Bachrach on the delicious final season of The Bear | Bear

‘It’s time for it to end’: Ebon Moss-Bachrach on the delicious final season of The Bear | Bear

🔥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: The Bear,Ebon Moss-Bachrach,Television,Television & radio,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: eBon Moss-Bachrach is currently starring in the popular Broadway production of Dog Day Afternoon, but after he takes his bow, there's only one thing audiences want to talk about. “Every time I leave the stage door, there are a few hundred people screaming ‘My cousin!’” he laughs.That's his catchphrase as eccentric Professor Richie Jeremiah Jeremiah in The Bear, of course. And now the culinary comedy-drama is back on the menu. One of the most influential TV shows of…
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‘It’s quite a bit more than we expected’: Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering

‘It’s quite a bit more than we expected’: Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering

🚀 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: An experimental satellite has mapped the scale of GPS jamming across Europe and the Middle East from space for the first time.The data surprised the team behind the project and indicated that satellites orbiting far from Earth aren't the only ones that experience degradation of their positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) signals, which could affect their performance and the safety of their operations.The new measurements were made by Pulsar-0, the first satellite of the novel Pulsar navigation constellation developed by California-based Xona Space Systems.…
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