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Isn't this one of those "how Roman roads determined our rail gauge" things?

Seasons -> harvest -> traditions freeze working/holidaying times -> kids start school a certain time -> gotta sell them computers to be ready at those times.

Something like that, in a million different ways.



and things that don’t fall on a yearly cadence of X times a year are really hard to think about.

If the new M* processor was every ten months, nobody would have the foggiest idea when it was coming out




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