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Comment by refibrillator

12 days ago

Hmm in distributed computer systems similar patterns exist, e.g. adding jitter to avoid thundering herd effects.

This feels like an essential pattern of the universe or something…

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HPsquared  12 days ago

"Spread spectrum" is used in EE to spread out the frequency ranges used and reduce interference. The extreme version being CDMA.

  • username135  12 days ago

    Intriguing

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