It's like you have a social security number or other ID number, which positively--there might be another person with the same name as you, God forbid, but you at least have your own number, which is guaranteed to be unique to you.

就好比社保号,或者其他身份号码,很有可能,有另外一个人,和你重名,希望这不要发生,但你至少有唯一的识别号,用于区分自己和他人

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But if you've looked at more recent or if you've looked at friends who relatively recently signed ID up for Facebook, their profile IDs which you sometimes see in the URL are actually pretty long and that's because I believe at some point they did transition longlong to 64-bit values which tend to be called long longs.

但是如果你看过最近的【听不见】,如果你访问了最近在Facebook上留言的朋友,你会发现，可以从URL上看到他们的配置文件,很长很长，那是因为,可能在某个时间点，他们已经过渡到,64比特了，也就是所谓的。

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