Post #3597096
2026-06-11 06:32 UTC
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@henstridge@mstdn.social 2026-06-11 07:55
@tykling@mastodon.social I still remember the phone number of the house I was born in, and also that of my current house where I've now lived for 40 years. I don't remember any mobile numbers, including my own. They seem too ephemeral to bother with memorizing.
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@harib_murshidi@mastodon.social 2026-06-11 08:11
@tykling@mastodon.social I remember at least 10 important numbers and I carry a small 📒notebook.... but that's just me who started carrying a notebook playing pretend slueth since I was 7
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@renardboy@mastodon.social 2026-06-11 08:26
@tykling@mastodon.social Realistically, if for whatever reason you started actually *needing* it again, it'd probably come back in a flash. As it stands, you can't bring yourself to remember phone numbers because you know deep down that it's largely pointless. I can't remember phone numbers either, but I can easily remember over a dozen passwords because I don't write them down. I'm of the belief that if LLMs can fully substitute your need to write code, you were writing trivial code in the first place.
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@marinheiro@ciberlandia.pt 2026-06-11 08:44
@tykling@mastodon.social mental arithmetic is another. Coming from a precalculator generation it was once second nature. Now I still remember (with a slight delay) the times table, but ask me to do division in my head and I almost have to start from first principles. But I guess later generations never had this ability? #vibecoding