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Comment by direwolf20

5 hours ago

Where are you storing them, a black hole?

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Dylan16807  4 hours ago

All you need is basic compression, like storing the start and stop points of each block of UUIDs in the database.

Wait, you already linked to everyuuid. Do you think the server it's on uses black hole storage?

techpression  4 hours ago

Fast writes, very slow reads.

seg_lol  2 hours ago

I would store them as offsets within the digits of pi.

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