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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

The function first generated a random UUID. This is a long string of random characters, used in many software systems to uniquely fingerprint things, transactions for example. In theory, you can have millions of seperate systems, each generating UUIDs all the time without ever having to worry about a collision (a collision is one or more systems generating the same UUID, therefore it being not unique anymore)

The second line then runs UUID generation again, trying to generate an identical UUID to the one it already made. Tis is absurd because even a dmsupercomputer trying to generate identical UUIDs would take longer than the lifespan of the universe.

The console line shows that a matching UUID was apparently found after some amount of time, which shouldn't be possible, implying some fuckery with the random number generator.