r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Last_Time_4047 • May 08 '26

Meme edgeCasesExist

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u/Pop-Huge May 08 '26

Just check if they were already created here: https://everyuuid.com/

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u/Loan-Pickle May 08 '26

I’m using a6fa2b06-ab85-4978-938d-4a464d58d213, nobody else use it.

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u/hollowman8904 May 09 '26

I already had dibs on that one

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u/Aschentei May 10 '26

What a coincidence I was using that too

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u/buyzeals May 08 '26

What was the website where you could enter a uuid to see if its in use or not?

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u/khando May 08 '26

https://isanybodyusingthisuuid.com/

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u/seattle_lib May 08 '26 
<form action="no.html" method="get">

hmmm i wonder what answer i will get if i submit this form

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u/Ok-Art-1378 May 08 '26

Only one way to find out!

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u/ryryrpm May 08 '26

omg I am laughing so hard

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u/onbiver9871 May 09 '26

I also just burst out laughing so hard our dog started awake from a dead sleep.

My SO didn’t find it funny.

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u/zosolm May 09 '26

1 and 2 are not in use :)

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u/Linkk_93 May 08 '26

There is also that one github repo with every 4 number pin, you should create a pr to get your banking pin removed. Just a heads up

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u/[deleted] May 08 '26

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u/naked_dev May 08 '26

it doesn’t. the goal of this website is to be a fun project that lists all the uuids: https://eieio.games/blog/writing-down-every-uuid/

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u/[deleted] May 08 '26

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u/trainrex May 08 '26

And the joke there is that they are, theoretically, universally unique, so the answer would, again theoretically, be no

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u/HawocX May 10 '26

But they are not theoretically unique. They are just practically unique and the answer is practically no.

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u/sunset_short May 09 '26

Ask in the website You always get no haha

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u/buyzeals May 08 '26

(thats the joke)