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by throwawayiionqz 2117 days ago
What's the point of slowly moving pieces of wood when everything fits in RAM
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mlyle 2117 days ago
It's an networking mechanism to send state changes to the other agent and broadcast them to nearby subscribers. It has the side effect of semi-durably persisting the state, too.
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srtjstjsj 2116 days ago
The range is terrible. Lower than Bluetooth and mugch tighter line of sight too.

And it's less durable than a smartphone which is great as saving to SSD at shutdown.

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