Well, the UUIDs for almost everything we use are galaxy-scale already. Astronomers just need to up those random letters a bit.
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MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
TFW you live in a galaxy-spanning super civilization but your planet is dying because its ID in the central database has a UUID collision with another planet 80000 light years away.
marcos@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Gork@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
How difficult would it be for every single thing that can be cataloged and named in the known universe to have a sufficiently unique UUID?
MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
IDK, it’s fun to think about because maybe the 128 bit UUID is still being used due to 40k-like levels of technical debt, and also weird edge cases that cause ID explosion. Like maybe the 4000 year old spec says we need to track micrometeoroids too, sorry.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 28 minutes ago
“Works on my machine”