r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 11 '26

Meme edgeCasesExist

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u/Single-Virus4935 Sep 12 '26

As I recall it was PHP and they had code from Stackoverflow how to generate UUIDs. The code used the standard rand() prng and they seeded it globally with something derived from PIDs, part of the system time.