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Good moment to revisit this fun article: https://jasonfantl.com/posts/Universal-Unique-IDs/ https://jasonfantl.com/posts/Universal-Unique-IDs/ If the entire un
by dweez 4mo ago
Good moment to revisit this fun article: https://jasonfantl.com/posts/Universal-Unique-IDs/ https://jasonfantl.com/posts/Universal-Unique-IDs/
If the entire universe were turned into a giant computer and did nothing but generate uuids until its heat death, how many bits would you need for the ID space?
- CodeWriter23 4mo agoIf you're gonna go there, this is obligatory https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/ https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
- ipaddr 4mo ago"But are you worried that every human on Earth will be hit by a meteorite right now? That probability is also non-zero, yet it is so infinitesimally small that we treat it as an impossibility." This might be a bad example because one meteorite could take out the world and given enough time is likely to.