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Performance improvements in Safari.
1% here, 0.3% there and six months later you have a 30% boost on a mature codebase.
https://webkit.org/blog/15249/optimizing-webkit-safari-for-speedometer-3-0/

🧬 Variety in building block softness makes for softer amorphous materials
#materials

Variety in building block softness makes for softer amorphous materials
Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created a new model for disordered materials to study how amorphous materials resist stress. They treated groups of atoms and molecules as squishy spheres with varying softness.

Here's my latest Human Meme podcast episode: Shifting Dynamics in Academia: Navigating Student-Instructor Relationships in the Post-Standardized Test Era - http://sites.libsyn.com/84966/shiftin…

Google, Apple, Mozilla, and Microsoft release Speedometer 3.0, a benchmark to "create a shared understanding of web performance", after Speedometer 2.0 in 2018 (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2024/03/11/speedometer-3-0/

Google, Apple, and Firefox release new Speedometer 3.0 browser benchmark
Speedometer 3.0 is now available. Speedometer has long been Google's preferred benchmark, previously noting how...

I guess it's reduced quality of service, sure.
timeboxing, bulkheads circuit breakers and time shifting and shedding and auto-scaling
e.g. not leaning into auto-scaling unless absolutely necessary
otherwise trying to employ jitter/backoff for time shifting, 429 for shedding, limiting internal queue time (like that optimistic queue algorithm CoDel)

What is this nonsense? If people are regularly speeding to the tune of a dozen fatal accidents a decade, then yes, there’s an engineering issue. God I hate Arlington DES.
https://www.arlnow.com/2024/03/13/neighborhoods-push-for-…

Neighborhoods push for solutions to curb speeding on 2nd Street S. | ARLnow.com
Penrose and Arlington Heights residents say a heavily trafficked road through their neighborhoods needs more speeding enforcement and traffic calming measures. From Washington Blvd to Glebe Road, 2nd Street S. has seen several crashes over the last decade, including a 2012 crash at S. Wayne Street that sent three to the hospital to a fatal

#TTC Plans Buses on 510 Spadina June-October 2024 #toronto
https://stevemunro.ca/2024/04/12/ttc-plans-buses-on-510-spadina-june-october-2024/

Google, Apple, Mozilla, and Microsoft release Speedometer 3.0, a benchmark to "create a shared understanding of web performance", after Speedometer 2.0 in 2018 (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2024/03/11/speedometer-3-0/

Google, Apple, and Firefox release new Speedometer 3.0 browser benchmark
Speedometer 3.0 is now available. Speedometer has long been Google's preferred benchmark, previously noting how...

I guess it's reduced quality of service, sure.
timeboxing, bulkheads circuit breakers and time shifting and shedding and auto-scaling
e.g. not leaning into auto-scaling unless absolutely necessary
otherwise trying to employ jitter/backoff for time shifting, 429 for shedding, limiting internal queue time (like that optimistic queue algorithm CoDel)

Filing: MGM sues the FTC to stop an investigation into a 2023 cyberattack and asks for Chair Lina Khan's recusal; Khan stayed at the MGM Grand in September 2023 (Sabrina Willmer/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

MGM Resorts Sues US FTC to Stop Investigation of Casino Hack
MGM Resorts International sued the Federal Trade Commission to stop an investigation into how it dealt with a cybersecurity attack last year.