I usually pay homage to Einstein and call this "spooky action at a distance". Apparently I'm not the only one to have seen the connection: https://en.wikipedia

I usually pay homage to Einstein and call this "spooky action at a distance". Apparently I'm not the only one to have seen the connection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_at_a_distance_%28computer_programming%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_at_a_distance_%28comput... "In computer science, action at a distance is an anti-pattern (a recognized common error) in which behavior in one part of a program varies wildly based on difficult or impossible to identify operations in another part of the program."