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Actually it's not impossible, but very very improbable.
P.S. You should play a lottery/powerball ticket
P.P.S. Whenever I use the word improbable, the https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Infinite_Improbability_D... comes in mind
I fully agree. It makes no sense. Yet... The only guesses I'm having is that we originally generated UUIDv4s on a user's phone before sending it to the database, and the UUID generated this morning that collided was created on an Ubuntu server. I don't fully know how UUIDv4s are generated and what (if anything) about the machine it's being generated on is part of the algorithm, but that's really the only change I can…
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Question to fellow HNers, do you recognize that this comment was written by AI?
Only noticed it because I did another pass and saw the replies talking about "AI".
Please, do not use b6133fd6-70fe-4fe3-bed6-8ca8fc9386cd, I checked my database and I was using it already.
Why? There's a built-in for this.
1 in 4.72 × 10²⁸ 1 in 47.3 octillion. i'd be suspecting a race condition or some other naive mistake, otherwise id be stocking up on lottery tickets. (lol at the other user posting at the same time about the lottery ticket.. great minds and all that.)