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Gehheie88f3nj3-i-odk3j4y8-fff-jej (mander.xyz)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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[–] 49 points 9 months ago (5 children)

TFW you live in a galaxy-spanning super civilization but your planet is dying because its ID in the central database has a UUID collision with another planet 80000 light years away.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    How difficult would it be for every single thing that can be cataloged and named in the known universe to have a sufficiently unique UUID?

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    IDK, it's fun to think about because maybe the 128 bit UUID is still being used due to 40k-like levels of technical debt, and also weird edge cases that cause ID explosion. Like maybe the 4000 year old spec says we need to track micrometeoroids too, sorry.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago*

    according to wikipedia, there are about 10⁸⁰ protons in the observable universe

    you would need 266 bits to give each one a different number
    if you are using base 64, you would need 45 digits
    it would look something like this aGVoc3Z4ZnN5YWhkYiByaHNqc2hyIGcgZGhzaGVkaGJz1

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