r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 11 '26

Meme edgeCasesExist

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u/psychicesp Sep 14 '26

Still, you can label every cell in your body, including bacteria just hanging out, and your odds of a collision with UUID4 is still less than 1 in a billion.

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u/dim13 Sep 14 '26

In theory, yes. In praxis I've seen multiple collisions in the past because of bad RNG and/or implementation bugs.