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Comment by AtlasBarfed

UUIDs are guaranteed to be unique?

They often use tricks like including the MAC address of the generator machine and other ways to increase uniqueness assurances.

It was my understanding that uuids are simply very very unlikely to duplicate in situations with random generation.

parent AtlasBarfed 2 years ago

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