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- I ask for butter and walk away. - It passes the butter to where I expect it to be when I return. - That is its purpose.

• jayd16 8mo ago
  That's just a slow response with extra steps. There's also the concept of a daemon process that looks for work to do and tells you about it without being prompted.
• candiddevmike 8mo ago
  Do you try to pull the butter onto your knife periodically, or do you wait somehow until it pushes the butter onto your knife? When does it become less work to just go get the butter yourself?
  • DonHopkins 8mo ago
    You just need a self-buttering knife, like a self-licking ice cream cone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-licking_ice_cream_cone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-licking_ice_cream_cone
• jameslk 8mo ago
  (Rick and Morty reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7HmltUWXgs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7HmltUWXgs)