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refibrillatoryesterday at 11:24 PM1 replyview on HN

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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HPsquaredtoday at 12:06 AM

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

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