alt Hacker NewsI 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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matja • yesterday at 8:17 AM
You aren't supposed to store the hyphens, and that's the same for all versions.
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Is reserving 6 bits really that bad?
You can use different encodings based on context, just like with a random blob of bytes.