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According to the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, there's bound to be one branch of universe where every UUID is the same. Can you imagine what those guys are thinking?
Or where the first two are unique, but every following one is one of the first two.
The chance of a UUIDv4 collision is very low, but it is never zero. If everything is done properly, then this is very likely the one and only time anyone involved in the telling or reading of this account will ever experience this.
Classic gamblers fallacy!
The chance anyone involved saw or heard about the first one was near zero, now they’ve seen this one the chance they see another is still near zero (I.e unchanged).
If the entire universe were turned into a giant computer and did nothing but generate uuids until its heat death, how many bits would you need for the ID space?
What you're talking about is so extremely rare that it's much more likely that the entire Earth is destroyed by an asteroid right this inst...
About as rare as an asteroid typing an ellipsis and clicking the add comment button.
Think the ultrasonic typing hacking scene in Pantheon combined with the keyboard bouncing due to rumbling.
No, very technically possible... though, with good randomness, very, very unlikely.
But nothing technically prevents a UUIDv4 from generating a duplicate value.
What you're talking about is so extremely rare that it's much more likely that the entire Earth is destroyed by an asteroid right this inst...
If you do have a UUID collision, chances are extremely high that it's either a software bug, or glitch in the computer. It could be a cosmic ray. Cosmic rays messing with the computer memory or CPU are actually relatively common.
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.)
The lottery ticket part makes no sense. Statistically if such an improbable event just happened to him, then chance of it happening again should be even more improbable.
> I thought this is technically impossible 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
> P.S. You should play a lottery/powerball ticket Actually, they should not. That collision and winning the lottery would be even rarer.
Most plausible cause: uuid package depends on some random number generator package, which has recently been compromised in order to make “random” numbers predictable. As a result, many crypto (ssl + currency) projects are compromised due to a supplychain attack.
uuid/src/rng.ts : the random array is const. Every call will share the same random number. Subsequent call will update your old random code, so if you generated something important... good luck
The old code used to do a slice() which creates a new copy.
Might be unintentional. Although I have no idea how this would pass any tests, as you would think to test generating 2 randomnumbers and hope they are not the same.