computer nerds: what would you call a library that takes arbitrary data types and generates unique strings from them? it’s not really hashing as under the hood it basically outputs a bodged sort of binary and there’s nothing consistent about the output lengths or anything between types, only that they’re all unique
@kim Far as I can tell, most implementations *do* call this hashing (often something like "object hash" or "structural hash"), it's just not *cryptographic* hashing
@joepie91 calling it hashing made me feel like a sham 😭 one day i will understand cryptography… until then i shall forever hold those developers on a pedestal