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If you truncate a UUID I will truncate your fingers

https://gieseanw.wordpress.com/2025/12/14/if-you-truncate-a-uuid-i-will-truncate-your-fingers/

5•andyg_blog•8h ago

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Nair0•7h ago

Actually didn't know the stuff explained in here. Also really love the tone of the post, angrily explaining stuff, good read!

DamonHD•7h ago

I find that aggression and unpleasantness and threat of violence a total turn off and did not make it to the end. Also, I think that some of the numbers were probably badly wrong, but I'm not going to pick through the abuse to check...

andyg_blog•7h ago

Really appreciate it. I love mixing humor with technical communication. This post is topical because strangely I encountered GUID truncation three times in the last week.

Minor49er•5h ago

I wonder if the author is responding to a developer who got confused and conflated hashes with UUIDs

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