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Re:The Psychology of not wanting to know (2017) [pdf] by Dudeman112 on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @03:00PM (#31827731)
The mechanism behind it should be able to calculate the new date in advance though

It's already taking into account billions of variables (if the date is sufficiently far away), billions + 1 should be easy

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Re:The Psychology of not wanting to know (2017) [pdf] by moe091 on Monday June 27, 2022 @12:56PM (#31897343)
Then the date would have to be re-calculated because knowing this new date could cause the date to change in a different way, requiring another recalculation, etc. I guess it really depends in practice, might only be a few loops before it gets stuck on one date, could see it being an infinite loop though
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