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        1. i just read this sentence "-REAL as Julian day numbers, the number of days since noon in Greenwich on November 24, 4714 B.C. according to the proleptic Gregorian calendar."
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        working with computers is so beautiful and absurd, the way technical constraints and cultural happenstance wind their way around each other
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      (but as it happens, I am choosing to store the time someone uploaded something to this server as the number of seconds since the start of 1970)
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    i looked up the word proleptic and found another good fragment of text