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Slightly off topic, but it's interesting to see the same phrase "the long now" pop up in different contexts independently and mean very different things:

https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-long-now/

Both are pretty obscure references for now, but I can easily imagine a world where they both become widely known in separate groups. Like the word "legacy" has hilariously different connotations for software engineers as compared to _everyone else_

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