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on Feb 28, 2021
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A 'Lamborghini' of Chariots Is Discovered at Pompe...
The Long Now blog seems to suggest it's more about reminding devs in the 9990s that if they don't store dates as 5 digit integers they might have a millennium bug!
Feels like the futurist version of expressing your deity's name as G-d.
benibela
on Feb 28, 2021
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But it makes it very encouraging to store them as 16 bit integers
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Feels like the futurist version of expressing your deity's name as G-d.