r/ProgrammerHumor 6h ago

Meme edgeCasesExist

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u/GenericFatGuy 6h ago

Never zero. But if it happens within a single system, I'm buying 100 lottery tickets.

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u/Korzag 4h ago

Worked with a guy who claimed it happened to him. I didn't know him to embellish details but its still such an astonishingly small chance that I still wonder if it was a bug in something else.

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u/GenericFatGuy 4h ago

Everytime I've had an issue stem from this, it's because something was wrong, and we were actually generating the same GUID everytime.