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imagining a data structure for the temperature cap. assuming the COVID epoch begins 1/1/2020, and we log one data point per hour, the timestamp can be two bytes long, right? Surely we’ll be out of the woods by 2027? https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2%5E16+hours+from+midnight+UTC%2C+January+1%2C+2020

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