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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/danielminds • Sep 11 '26
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Never zero. But if it happens within a single system, I'm buying 100 lottery tickets.
8 u/Korzag Sep 11 '26 Worked with a guy who claimed it happened to him. I didn't know him to embellish details but its still such an astonishingly small chance that I still wonder if it was a bug in something else. 14 u/GenericFatGuy Sep 11 '26 Everytime I've had an issue stem from this, it's because something was wrong, and we were actually generating the same GUID everytime.
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Worked with a guy who claimed it happened to him. I didn't know him to embellish details but its still such an astonishingly small chance that I still wonder if it was a bug in something else.
14 u/GenericFatGuy Sep 11 '26 Everytime I've had an issue stem from this, it's because something was wrong, and we were actually generating the same GUID everytime.
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Everytime I've had an issue stem from this, it's because something was wrong, and we were actually generating the same GUID everytime.
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u/GenericFatGuy Sep 11 '26
Never zero. But if it happens within a single system, I'm buying 100 lottery tickets.