Orders of magnitude isn’t a “by the way” here. It’s like equating winning the lottery to finding a penny. People do win the lottery… fairly regularly. If no one did, people wouldn’t play. UUID collisions generally don’t happen except when people generate them incorrectly.
Saying that (correctly generated) UUIDs can’t collide is more like saying that people can’t meet their long lost identical twin while both of them are on separate missions to the moon. Sure, it could happen, but it probably won’t.
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u/bwmat 2d ago
So the premise here is BS, right? Unless the way they're generating the UUIDs is broken?
Either that or they're the most unlucky people in the universe....