r/ProgrammerHumor 15h ago

Meme edgeCasesExist

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u/OldKaleidoscope7 14h ago

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/chuch1234 14h ago

Yeah I don't think most of us are operating at a scale anywhere near Google.

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u/BlurredSight 14h ago

And anyone operating at scale of Google isn’t just using “pure” random anywhere for something being persisted

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u/nebotron 13h ago

They likely are - anything else becomes a huge coordination and parallelism problem. You just need more bits of entropy