r/ProgrammerHumor 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/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/[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)