God damn it now my uuids aren't universally unique!!!
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Universally Used once IDentifier
Every v4 UUID 🤭 /snark
all of these are actually already recorded in the library of babel as long as you spell them out.
This comment is in the library of babel.
How many bytes is the Library of Babel?
Petabytes? Exabytes? Zettabytes?
I'd guess its infinite.
The specifications described in Borges' original short story implies there are 25^1312000 books, which is unfathomably large but technically still finite.
If it's stored on a server somewhere, it can't be infinite.
Its generated dynamically based on a seed string.
Huh, if it's dynamically generated, would the storage required to host website grow as visitors search for more strings?
It doesn't generate and save it, it generates it again at the same position.
In that case, wouldn't the "address" for the position of the string in the library be as long as the string itself?
Address is the seed. It's not stored. Try visiting it to see how it works.
Yes, it's a fancy way to turn a link containing encoded text into that text.
Thank God, found mine.
Finally, a useful website
My son is also named Bort.
Bort..as? Orville vibes, sorry.
A-bortion
my Minecraft uuid isn't in here :(
is it a v4? The search thing is a bit wonky.
Splain Lucy. What's the use case for these, please? Tried looking it up myself but still not sure. Thanks in advance.
A uuid is something that can be used as an id (identifier). It stands for Univerally Unique Identifier. This has a list of all of them, because it generates every valid one.
I did learn what it stood for in my travels. I wish to know the use cases for such things. Eli5 if posssible, please.
In applications it was very common to use an auto incrementing number for id's. So one account would have id of one, then the next two, etc... This can cause problems if there is an unautheticated api endpoint which returns user info given an ID value, someone could just put in all the Id's counting up from one to find out all the records in the database. UUID's are a way of obscuring that, making it pretty hard to enumerate all records if they cant count up in an orderly fashion. It's also useful in distributed systems, the many instances of a running service could generate an ID value on each server instance before recording the value in the the database, there is a low chance of ID collisions.
One use is in URL identifiers. If my account number is 47, for example, I could reasonably guess that accounts 1-46 exist and potentially look at other customers' data.
But if it uses a UUID instead then it's a lot harder to do that.
They are used as ids, like a post id or a user id in technology.
It would be nice if they were sorted.
The video the guy did about making this was great