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It's surprising how common 1% event is. Local supermarket has parking lot that only sees 1/4th of it's capacity used daily, but events have it filled up to the brim at least a few times a year. A jitter happening "only" 1% of the time in a game can mean several hitches a _second_, on a webserver you can have several hundred bad customer experiences a second





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