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  • Yeah I mean it’s definitely possible to write a mostly sensible string-number equality function that only breaks in edge-cases, but at this point it’s all kinda vibes-based mush, and the real question is like… Why would you want to do that? What are you really trying to achieve?

    The most likely case is that it’s a novice that doesn’t understand what they’re doing and the Python setup you describe does a better job at setting up guardrails.

    I don’t really see the connection to concatenation, that’s kind of its own thing.














  • Nah, they are supposed to be unique. If it was that it’d at least be a design choice potentially worthy of criticism. But consider, who’s more likely to have fucked up a database task: Musk? Or the designer, someone with a degree (a real degree) on this topic?

    Don’t worry: since he’s so big on transparency, I’m sure he’ll release the schema so we can check his work… 🙄