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> Note that UUID's, like IPv6 addresses, are sufficiently > long that if users are needing to interact with the > directly, You're Doing Something Wrong
by stock_toaster 9y ago
> Note that UUID's, like IPv6 addresses, are sufficiently
> long that if users are needing to interact with the
> directly, You're Doing Something Wrong
One would think so, but you would be surprised how many times someone has typed out to me (or copy/pasted) a UUID for debugging purposes, or how often I have had to eyeball UUIDs in production logs.
- kijin 9y agoWe eyeball, compare and copy/paste git commit IDs all the time, and they're longer than UUIDs. I don't see any problem with it as long as there's good tooling to help us interact with these IDs (e.g. git allows us to use the first few characters of a commit ID if there's no collision).