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[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 8 points 2 weeks ago

I don't understand what you mean by that...I assumed you would understand what I was saying?

There's far worse options than correct or incorrect hashmaps, there's collisions. A 50% chance of collision, but also only one bit of data... that's worse than useless as a hashmap, any practical use of it would be better done in basically any other way