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Note the obsessive use of abbreviations and avoidance of capital letters; [Unix] is a system invented by people to whom repetitive stress disorder is what black lung is to miners. Long names get worn down to three-letter nubbins, like stones smoothed by a river.
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web.stanford.edu
The **Queuing Rule of Thumb (QROT)** is a mathematical formula, known as the queuing constraint equation when it is used to find an approximation of servers required to service a [queue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queue_area). The formula is written as an [inequality](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inequality_(mathematics)) relating the number of servers (*s*), total number of service requestors (*N*), service time (*r*), and the maximum time to empty the queue (*T*):
Queuing Rule of Thumb
wikipedia.org
Being a locally minded vegetarian has been my compromise. I'm sure that to many this is intellectually incoherent, to which I'd offer that it's not a purely intellectual choice.
No Meat Required
Alicia Kennedy
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
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