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by ed_mercer 221 days ago
"Ohhh, if it isn't 99adbad3-f3c8-4c52-99d8-be692c62b9db again! Man, what a blast last Friday at e128001f-9737-4245-b08b-73bc50db0204's party, right?"
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That's impractical. Someone made a base8192 Hangul UUID conversion, only ten characters long.
Telling Siri to pronounce the output there is absolutely wild, I may not speak Korean but can tell it’s outputting unpronounceable nonsense.
I tried using Google translate's voiceover, it seems fine? I don't have an iPhone so I can't compare with Siri. It is obviously a nonsensical string of ten characters, but all hangeul characters should be pronouncible.
Well obviously in your personal circles you'd still use nicknames.

99ad and e128 in this case.

First guy is "bad", second guy is "bo8b" (Bob).
I just go by Ad Bad. Yeah I know about the other guy. E7 123 and the other college friends call me Ad Bad 3 and him Ad 88
But you'd call em 99ad for short in casual conversation
I feel like the names we have now already work well for casual conversations
Absolutely... but they will be mere nicknames.