• ClockworkN@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    They regularly allude to the idea of “pattern buffers” that hold on to a copy of you for as long as the plot requires.

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      10 months ago

      Sure, but I don’t think those are used as a matter of standard practice. The idea of some immutable, archival pattern being used for each trip doesn’t track.

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        10 months ago

        I thought you were read into the buffer until your pattern was wholly scanned and then replicated onto the target from it