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    Originally founded as a project to simplify sharing code, GitHub has grown into an application used by over a million people to store over two million code repositories, making GitHub the largest code host in the world.
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    T500/W500, 4GB of RAM. It's something like 13 years old, and ~$60. It can run almost every website that hasn't been web-dev'ed into oblivion. It balks at anything with memory leaks and inefficient CPU/GPU load. It can run YouTube/Facebook/Twitter (surprisingly, for the last). It can't run https://github.com/.

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  2. Toxiproxy is a framework for simulating network conditions to prove with tests that the application doesn't have single points of failure.
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    If you’re on mac mimestream is really good: https://mimestream.com/.

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  4. CPU Usage Limiter for Linux - cpulimit is a simple program which attempts to limit the cpu usage of...
    Thanks for your elaborate notes! This is helpful information. When I tried your commands, on Arch via libcgroup-git, `cgcreate -g cpu:cpulimit` only results in `cgcreate: can't create cgroup cpulimit: Cgroup, requested group parameter does not exist`, for some reason. But this is not a support ticket, I have not researched this at all yet. But cgroups only limit <i>some</i> processes anyway, never the entire core(s) - so it seems one could also simply use cpulimit [1] instead which emulates by sending SIGSTOP and SIGCONT. About cooling_deviceN: While this does limit cpu functionality, this seems to only also set `scaling_max_freq` to an appropriate value, throttling because the fans are disabled. Not more useful than setting the frequency manually I presume. [1] https://github.com/opsengine/cpulimit.

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