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efilifetoday at 7:31 AM1 replyview on HN

I hate UUIDv4, don't care about the rest. UUIDv4 is just random bytes with hyphens inserted in random places and some bytes reserved to indicate that this is in fact a UUID. This is wasteful and stupid


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matjatoday at 8:17 AM

You aren't supposed to store the hyphens, and that's the same for all versions.

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