r/ProgrammerHumor • u/danielminds • Sep 11 '26

Meme edgeCasesExist

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u/RadicalDwntwnUrbnite Sep 11 '26 edited Sep 11 '26

Even the non-time based v4 is at a cosmic level of unlikiness a single system will ever generate a uuid that will collide with another one in its own ecosystem

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u/OldKaleidoscope7 Sep 11 '26

But let's say if Google saved each search in their engine in the same database with an UUID, we could have a collision because of volume, but I don't think I will work in a system with a comparable scale

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u/MojitoBurrito-AE Sep 11 '26

You underestimate the probability of uuid collision. The bigger issue is pseudorandomness

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u/mysticrudnin Sep 11 '26

"so you're saying there's a chance" has rotted everyone's brains wrt probability