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Cosmologically Unique IDs
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
If protons decay. There isn't really any reason to believe they're not stable.
And recent DESI data suggests that dark energy is not constant and the universe will experience a big crunch in a little more than double its current age, for a total lifespan of 33 billion years, no need to get wild with the orders of magnitude on years into the future. The infinite expansion to heat death over 10^100 years is looking less likely, 10^11 years should be plenty. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2…
not obvious to me this makes things better as opposed to worse? sure, the time bound helps but in the runup to a crunch won't we get vastly more devices in causal range at an asymptotically increasing rate?
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#84800 bits is an incomprehensible number of possibilities…yet tiny in comparison to the number of .gifs that could be drawn.
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#87I’m going to vibe code an app that lets you register a computronium unique id (is that name taken?) I’ll corner the market.
I’m also going to devise a standard that arbitrarily breaks it into groups of hexadecimal digits of arbitrary length in the spirit of UUIDs, and reserve a prefix space for Planck-unit timestamps (computronium-ID-7) so that you can lexicographically sort your COMPID7s.
Man I got to get out in front of this.
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It seems like it would be a killer for any sharding systems.
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#89Quite offtopic, but: I found UUIDs being overused in many cases. People then abused them to store data, making them effectively "speaking IDs" or "multi column indices".
Unless it's a key that needs to be sortable (e.g. insertion order) or a metric/descriptor of some kind, I'm not sure why UUID would be overused or inappropriate for use.
Random UUIDs are not compressible. They are also frequently stored as 38-character strings.