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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.” These are all astonishing tools for making our limited capacity for attention more efficient. Attention allocation was outsourced to the machines.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived," [link] Oct 2022 - [Intel 22] Intel, "Intel® Developer Cloud," [link] accessed Dec 2022 I've taken care to cite the author names along with the talk titles and dates, including for Internet sources, instead of the common practice of just listing URLs.

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How to Test Responsive Web Design Cross-Browser Compatibility

Testsigma

Responsive Web Design (RWD) is a term that was defined by Ethan Marcotte in 2010 according to which, design and development of web pages should be responsive to different screen size, platform, and orientation. Earlier, people only had a desktop and a limited number of browsers to surf the internet. Signup for the tool.

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The Ethics of Web Performance

Tim Kadlec

My home internet connection gives me somewhere around 3 Mbps down. In a 2012 paper, The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy estimated the internet uses 5 kWh on average to support every GB of data. It seems blazingly fast compared to the 0.42 Mbps download speed my in-laws get at their house.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

As for attending USENIX conferences: I finally started attending and speaking at them in 2010 when a community manager encouraged me to (thanks Deirdre Straughan), and since then I've met many friends and connections, including Amy who is now USENIX President, and Rikki with whom I co-chaired the USENIX LISA18 conference.

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On the Edge of a New Decade

Edge Perspectives

This last decade, the 2010’s, has been a challenging one. This natural trend is amplified by a more fundamental issue – as I’ve written about here , our institutions are driven by an institutional model that focuses on efficiency and, in a world of mounting performance pressure, focuses less and less on delivering value to their stakeholders.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Alex Russell

Many critiques are possible, both of the target (five seconds for first load), the sample population (worldwide internet users), and of the methodology (informed reckons). Emerging markets with high mobile internet use and dense populations can feature poor fixed-line broadband penetration compared with Western markets. In the U.S.,