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		refibrillator 40 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The hidden engineering of runways 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…

HPsquared 40 days ago [–]

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

username135 40 days ago | [–]

Intriguing

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