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Galaxy Brain Hardcodes a Beef UUID Forever
CS Fundamentals Post #8285 · source on Telegram

Galaxy Brain Hardcodes a Beef UUID Forever

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A three-panel cartoon meme (imgflip watermark) of two tiny-brained men yelling at a calm man with an oversized exposed brain. Left, a bearded guy in glasses shouts: "UUIDS CAN COLLIDE YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL". Middle, another small-brain figure yells: "IT'S SO UNLIKELY THAT IT DOES NOT MATTER". Right, the huge-brain figure smiles serenely under: "WHY WOULD I EVER USE A DIFFERENT UUID", with the constant "BEEFBEEF-BEEF-BEEF-BEEFBEEFBEEF" printed below. The joke escalates UUID-collision discourse from anxious uniqueness checks to statistical handwaving to the galaxy-brain anti-pattern of hardcoding one deadbeef-style ID for everything.

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick If every row is BEEFBEEF-BEEF-BEEF-BEEFBEEFBEEF, you didn't prevent collisions — you shipped a singleton and called it a primary key.
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    If every row is BEEFBEEF-BEEF-BEEF-BEEFBEEFBEEF, you didn't prevent collisions — you shipped a singleton and called it a primary key.

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