How to Make Things Slower So They Go Faster

Synchronized demand is the moment a large cohort of clients acts almost together. In a service with capacity $\mu$ requests per second and background load $\lambda_0$, the usable headroom is $H = \mu - \lambda_0 > 0$. When $M$ clients align—after a cache expiry, at a cron boundary, or

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It's unbelievable that we are just now, in the year of our lord 2023, starting to negotiate drug prices with big Pharma. Fucjing redonculous. Lead on #DarkBrandon. #GoFaster
#inflationreductionact #BigPharmaMustPay
Ostensively one of the biggest upgrades of the system is the move from PCIe gen 3 to gen 4. Unfortunately every part of that bus must support gen 4, including this flat cable on my vertical mount riser. The previous one didn’t, and that caused some issues. This one does! #GoFaster #PCUpgrade #PCHardware

#Firefox68 added a view for their website workarounds. And that tells quite an crazy story…

Their pre-installed #WebCompat #GoFaster add-on applies temporary workarounds to web pages to make them work in #Firefox.
Now their explanation[1] however makes one thing pretty obvious: They mostly need to fight web devs. Who either don't test things, (wrongly) sniff UAs or even show "Works in #Chrome" messages.

So a pretty desperate move IMHO, but needed, as it seems.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Compatibility/Go_Faster_Addon

Compatibility/Go Faster Addon - MozillaWiki