I was trying to set a UniqueIdentifier based on Long. The objective was to give a certain custom Object a unique identifier in order to allow me to store them in a hashmap. I saw someone trying to use the most significant bits. So I realized that the addition of least and most significant bits will make it work. Here it is for anyone looking for a long UUID.
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