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I still don't understand why people don't remove the hyphens from UUIDs. Hyphens makes it harder to copy-paste IDs. The only reason to keep them is to make it explicit "hey this is an UUID", otherwise it's a completely internal affair.

Even worse, some tools generate random strings and then ADD hyphens in them to look like UUID (even thought it's not, as the UUID version byte is filled randomly as well), cannot wrap my head why, e.g:

https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaLogs/blob/v1.41.0...



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