Random identifiers can be bad for performance when inserting into balanced b-tree indexes.
| variant | timestamp bits | random bits |
| -------------- | ---------------------------------------- | ----------- |
| u32
, i32
| 16 (hours since unix epoch) | 16 |
| u64
, i64
| 40 (seconds since unix epoch) | 24 |
| u128
, i128
| 64 (milliseconds since unix epoch) | 64 |