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"Back pressure" is already a term widely used in computing for something entirely different: https://schmidscience.com/what-does-back-pressure-in-computer-scien
by waterproof 9mo ago
"Back pressure" is already a term widely used in computing for something entirely different: https://schmidscience.com/what-does-back-pressure-in-computer-science-mean.html https://schmidscience.com/what-does-back-pressure-in-compute...
- jagged-chisel 9mo agoI have the same argument with “crypto”
- andai 9mo agoAnd web 3? ;)
- johnfn 9mo agoI am not sure if I am missing something, since many people have made this comment, but isn't this in some ways similar to the shape of the traditional definition of back pressure, and not "entirely different"? A downstream consumer can't make its work through the queue of work to be done, so it pushes work back upstream - to you.
- swader999 9mo agoYeah it's too bad the author chose that word. They are in to something though, is a useful way to think about this game.