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BeefWellington on Nov 22, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Moving Away from UUIDs (2018)

It's because this statement:

    You don't need a UUID for that. A 128 bit random integer will work just fine.

Basically reads:

    You don't need a UUID for that. A UUID will work just fine.

vanviegen on Nov 22, 2022 [–]

The rfc is rather long for a UUID being just a random integer...

But if we're talking about UUID v4, it seems that 122 out of 128 are indeed random. [1] So why not just go all the way? Who cares about these 6 bits of meta data?

[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc412

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