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Re: Every V4 UUID

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Post by RGamma »

ticulatedspline wrote: post #36

reminds me of https://libraryofbabel.info/ (which seems to be down at the moment try Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20241112121646/https://libraryof... ). It's a fun implementation inspired by the short story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel and "At present it contains all possible pages of 3200 characters," though the character set is limited (no dash) so you won't find these UUIDs there.

I was gonna mention that so people have something to read when they finished the UUIDs.

Re: Every V4 UUID

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Post by sjm »

sergiotapia wrote: post #88

I'm going to take these, please mark them as taken ec971907-4564-46ec-b28b-d76f1a2233c8 58737c1a-9294-4ffa-8082-b5364923a59c ba6ca980-b405-48b9-9770-252611d40ef1 Thanks!

np, I'm taking deadbeef-beef-4000-beef-deadbeefdead

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Post by re »

tobyjsullivan wrote: post #21

The fact that the search works impressed me more than anything. Of course, like every great magic trick, it seems so simple once it is explained. For the curious, here's the linked blog post describing how the project works: https://eieio.games/blog/writing-down-every-uuid/ Edit to add: I'd only tried searching for an exact UUID when I wrote this comment. I didn't realize it supports full text search! Now I'm even mo…

The full text search is a little confusing because it doesn't actually search them in order, though it appears to at first. And if you click "next" a few times and then "prev" the same number of times, you don't necessarily end up back at the same UUID you were at before. It's a neat-seeming trick though.

Re: Every V4 UUID

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Post by jvanderbot »

Tangentially related:

HN recently (last few months) had an article explaining how large a number was. The number was something like busy beaver or 128 bit integers or something else.

It illustrated how large the number was by creating activities you would do, incrementing the counter as you did them. The sequence went something like this:

    Walk, and every time you take a step. Add 1

    After you have circled the earth, place a sheet of paper on a pile, and start walking again.

    Continue, until the paper pile reaches the sun, then place a grain of sand in the Grand Canyon and start over.

    Continue until you have filled the Grand Canyon, etc etc
It continued for a lot of such steps until you finally counted up to the number in question.

What was the number? What were the steps?

Re: Every V4 UUID

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Post by booleandilemma »

jvanderbot wrote: post #117

Tangentially related: HN recently (last few months) had an article explaining how large a number was. The number was something like busy beaver or 128 bit integers or something else. It illustrated how large the number was by creating activities you would do, incrementing the counter as you did them. The sequence went something like this: Walk, and every time you take a step. Add 1 After you have circled the earth, p…

Jeff Bezos' net worth?

Re: Every V4 UUID

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Post by Arch-TK »

Wow, it's a website which has more than a screen-full of stuff on it at one time and scrolling doesn't introduce a seconds-long loading animation.

I wonder if modern web developers of modern web applications could somehow harness this technology.

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