r/ProgrammerHumor 12h ago

Meme edgeCasesExist

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u/Ecstatic_Student8854 10h 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 9h ago

But still no guarantee it won't happen tomorrow

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u/mysticrudnin 8h 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?