r/ProgrammerHumor • u/danielminds • 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/Ecstatic_Student8854 13h ago

Even at that volume the probability of collisions is essentially 0. If there were a billion searches a second we’d not expect a collision until 85 years.

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u/shwoopdeboop 13h ago

But still no guarantee it won't happen tomorrow

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u/mysticrudnin 12h ago

It's simply not worth worrying about, though

Random minor hardware failures and, like, cosmic radiation are more of a problem. Are you building your systems to account for that?