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An even better UUID UX would cycle through colors when you clicked one and then would overlay the assigned color when you see that same UUID elsewhere. Better
by __MatrixMan__ 3y ago
An even better UUID UX would cycle through colors when you clicked one and then would overlay the assigned color when you see that same UUID elsewhere. Better to find a needle in a haystack if it's the only one with a pink background.
- coldtea 3y agoWith any of the entropies mentioned, it's not like you'll find 2 same ids in any pagefull of ids for this to ever matter... It's more like, you used id X in your db and 8 months later another X lands, after billions and billions of rows have been inserted...
- fireflash38 3y agoIt's more for tx ids or user ids,which are likely to be used multiple times in logging.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoWe're not looking for duplicates because we're afraid that probability has failed us. We're looking for duplicates because we have a thing of interest, with a corresponding UUID, and we want to notice where else that thing is involved.