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The more I think about it the more I find it kind of odd yet somewhat endearing that we have so much of our lives determined by the orbit of the planet. Not so much things that are actually affected by it like seasons and its impacts on ecology, but on a yearly scale we had software updates, new hardware and financial reconciliation. Things that all feel so abstract and yet are tied to the cycle of our rock spinning around the sun. The druids approve!

So I have no issue when something like a laptop being pushed back, it was all very arbitrary anyway. Can they release is a Mars based yearly cadence?



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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