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Sep 12, 2022 at 02:29
Neither Spotify nor Skype use peer to peer functionality any more. Are there any consumer apps that still leverage P2P designs? Has bandwidth just become so cheap that it's unnecessary?

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Sep 17, 2025 at 11:34
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Text to speech systems seem to have largely avoided the uncanny valley effect. I've encountered robotic sounding voices but it's way less unsettling than bad CGI. I'm not sure why this is. Maybe looking at faces is just way higher bandwidth so more things can go wrong?
Sep 25, 2020 at 04:11
Amazon defining a low power mesh protocol that shares bandwidth between neighbours:
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Jun 7, 2019 at 19:51
It's really easy to get used to exponential progress in tech, but the numbers are shocking in absolute terms. Going from 3G to 4G is typically 20 Mbps faster (https://www.lifewire.com/how-fast-are-4g-and-3g-internet-speeds-3974470) which is 350x the total bandwidth of my first modem!
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