👉 Okay, settle yourselves down, settle yourselves down. Letās tackle thisā¦
thing
. You stumble upon the utterance of, let's just say, a rather technical-sounding mouthful:
"get next oid."
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Now, immediately, you probably think, "What in the blue fuck did I just hear that mumbled through the misery of a botched build?" And honestly? Fair enough. It looks like something a beige mainframe from 1982 desperately needed to say, right alongside the incessant blinking of its tape reels. Letās unpack it. Essentially, "oid," as in this context (we're strictly technical here, no messing around), stands for an Object Identifier . Think of it as an utterly unique, massively obnoxious serial number slapped ontoā¦ almost anything within a database. Every row, every field, every damn piece of digital crap that needs to be reliably distinguished. 99.9% of you probably haven't given this a thought beyond the fact that you needed your fucking password reset for the third time this week. Now, the truncation ā and I shudder slightly at the brevityācomes from the act of requesting it. To get an āoid," you need to... drumroll, pleaseā¦ get next oid. You are essentially begging a system, often in a rather impatient, low-level kind of way. You're saying, "Hey! I, who probably shouldnāt even
