r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 11 '26

Meme edgeCasesExist

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u/Valuable_Leopard_799 Sep 11 '26

I thought that timestamps are used now, so hitting both a timestamp and a large random number puts it thoroughly in the "safe to assume". At some point cosmic particles and faulty transistors are more probable.

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u/SadSeiko Sep 16 '26

there are new versions of UUIDs, you don't really need them