There is no way for you to know that you aren't slightly less sharp having offloaded the memorization of those phone numbers. Who is the judge? It's a nonsensical question from a scientific perspective because it's impossible to prove either way.

We could speculate that simple acts like memorizing phone numbers probably do make the average person slightly sharper, in a similar way to trivial brain games helping to stave off alzheimer's.

Does it generate a spec or also the full app?

A full agent-friendly spec that you can feed into any coding agent like Cursor, Claude code, Replit.. etc. It actually copies over to some of them automcatically.

The purpose of the tariffs was to strong-arm countries into unfair trade deals, not to collect revenue

The purpose of the tariffs was to appeal to the part of the domestic constituency that has belief in protectionist policies as a good in and of themselves rather than a means to an ends, not to achieve some direct material policy outcome outside of the scope of political enthusiasm.

This is an unrelated change to the government’s demands.

That's what they're saying, but the timing...

I think they were referring to making personal vehicles self driving. Probably the rideshare market is just the start for Waymo.

Is it consumerism to walk around the beach collecting pretty rocks to go home and put them on a shelf?

A rock is not a consumer good, so no.

And a rock is unique, nice to look at, did not cost you anything and kind of an appreciation of nature.

Enjoy your rock! (i'm sincere)

Naturally since people are buying things, technically they are consuming.

I mean that collecting a relatively small number of durable and visually pleasing objects isn't really the worst flavor of consumerism, even if it seems pointless to some people.

I agree we have a massive problem with over-consumption (most glaringly with things like fast fashion), but I'm not sure record collectors are a big problem.

They can if you let DNS leak to their servers so make sure you really firewall your ship off

I know, that's why I use tor to get the links

The problem of track isolation is sometimes underconstrained, and so any AI system that does this will probably invent "neat parts" for us to hear that weren't necessarily in the original recording. It feels like using super-resolution models to notice details about your great-grandma's wedding dress.

Capital ≠ income

I’m really no expert on sharding but if you’re using increasing ints why can’t you just shard on (id % n) or something?

Because then you run into an issue when you 'n' changes. Plus, where are you increasing it on? This will require a single fault-tolerant ticker (some do that btw).

Once you encode shard number into ID, you got:

- instantly* know which shard to query

- each shard has its own ticker

* programatically, maybe visually as well depending on implementation

I had IDs that encode: entity type (IIRC 4 bit?), timestamp, shard, sequence per shard. We even had a admin page wher you can paste ID and it will decode it.

id % n is fine for cache because you can just throw whole thing away and repopulate or when 'n' never changes, but it usually does.

^ This