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I wasted all my generational luck for this (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 1 day ago by mudkip@lemdro.id to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Without chicanery? Yes

Without luck? No

[–] afk_strats@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

I think this is beyond luck. This is astronomical. It's orders of magnitude beyond what is lucky for our entire civilization to have produced in its entire existence

[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd put it down to a shit library or pseudorandomness before something happening that's so lucky it functionally should never happen.

[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Agreed. Most likely a bad implementation.

For example, if the browser does time fuzzing, this could make the UUID less random.