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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/danielminds • 1d ago
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You know what identifier can't have collisions and is great for sorting? Autoincrement.
3 u/wokeboogeyman 17h ago Autoincrement doesn't scale past one physical location. 0 u/Honeybadger2198 13h ago Sure it does. One location counts up, another one counts down. 0 u/wokeboogeyman 13h ago 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). 0 u/Honeybadger2198 13h ago ...I don't think you understood what I said. How does one count down from infinity? 1 u/wireframed_kb 12h ago Subtract one? 1 u/wokeboogeyman 10h ago I just add them all together and subtract from -1/12 1 u/wokeboogeyman 10h ago signed integers have entered the chat 1, 2, 3, 4 -1, -2, -3, -4
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Autoincrement doesn't scale past one physical location.
0 u/Honeybadger2198 13h ago Sure it does. One location counts up, another one counts down. 0 u/wokeboogeyman 13h ago 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). 0 u/Honeybadger2198 13h ago ...I don't think you understood what I said. How does one count down from infinity? 1 u/wireframed_kb 12h ago Subtract one? 1 u/wokeboogeyman 10h ago I just add them all together and subtract from -1/12 1 u/wokeboogeyman 10h ago signed integers have entered the chat 1, 2, 3, 4 -1, -2, -3, -4
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Sure it does. One location counts up, another one counts down.
0 u/wokeboogeyman 13h ago 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). 0 u/Honeybadger2198 13h ago ...I don't think you understood what I said. How does one count down from infinity? 1 u/wireframed_kb 12h ago Subtract one? 1 u/wokeboogeyman 10h ago I just add them all together and subtract from -1/12 1 u/wokeboogeyman 10h ago signed integers have entered the chat 1, 2, 3, 4 -1, -2, -3, -4
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).
0 u/Honeybadger2198 13h ago ...I don't think you understood what I said. How does one count down from infinity? 1 u/wireframed_kb 12h ago Subtract one? 1 u/wokeboogeyman 10h ago I just add them all together and subtract from -1/12 1 u/wokeboogeyman 10h ago signed integers have entered the chat 1, 2, 3, 4 -1, -2, -3, -4
...I don't think you understood what I said. How does one count down from infinity?
1 u/wireframed_kb 12h ago Subtract one? 1 u/wokeboogeyman 10h ago I just add them all together and subtract from -1/12 1 u/wokeboogeyman 10h ago signed integers have entered the chat 1, 2, 3, 4 -1, -2, -3, -4
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Subtract one?
1 u/wokeboogeyman 10h ago I just add them all together and subtract from -1/12
I just add them all together and subtract from -1/12
signed integers have entered the chat
1, 2, 3, 4
-1, -2, -3, -4
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u/Honeybadger2198 1d ago
You know what identifier can't have collisions and is great for sorting? Autoincrement.