• emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de
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      14 hours ago

      I try to tell my brain that, but it doesnt understand. I have only two speeds apparently. 0 or 100. And my brain loves sitting at 0 until it has no choice but to go to 100 until whatever it is is done.

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      20 hours ago

      Any manager that doesn’t know about the utilization/latency trade-off from queue theory is a danger to themselves and to others.

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          If you have somebody doing work that can appear at random (like somebody calling and saying they have a problem), that person will either be free for a fraction of time that seem high to naive people, or will have a line and take ages to help anybody approaching them.

          That seemingly high fraction of time is usually around 50% for the line to stay under control. That’s a well known result from mathematics.