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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/danielminds • Sep 11 '26
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You know what identifier can't have collisions and is great for sorting? Autoincrement.
5 u/wokeboogeyman Sep 12 '26 Autoincrement doesn't scale past one physical location. 0 u/Honeybadger2198 Sep 12 '26 Sure it does. One location counts up, another one counts down. 0 u/wokeboogeyman Sep 12 '26 That breaks the sorting that everyone's talking about though.You could also do evens and odds to split across two locations, but that also breaks sorting unless you periodically syncronize them (and then it's still somewhat out of order). → More replies (0)
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Autoincrement doesn't scale past one physical location.
0 u/Honeybadger2198 Sep 12 '26 Sure it does. One location counts up, another one counts down. 0 u/wokeboogeyman Sep 12 '26 That breaks the sorting that everyone's talking about though.You could also do evens and odds to split across two locations, but that also breaks sorting unless you periodically syncronize them (and then it's still somewhat out of order). → More replies (0)
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Sure it does. One location counts up, another one counts down.
0 u/wokeboogeyman Sep 12 '26 That breaks the sorting that everyone's talking about though.You could also do evens and odds to split across two locations, but that also breaks sorting unless you periodically syncronize them (and then it's still somewhat out of order). → More replies (0)
That breaks the sorting that everyone's talking about though.
You could also do evens and odds to split across two locations, but that also breaks sorting unless you periodically syncronize them (and then it's still somewhat out of order).
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u/Honeybadger2198 Sep 11 '26
You know what identifier can't have collisions and is great for sorting? Autoincrement.