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by lazide 868 days ago
Then it wouldn’t have that issue - as long as it isn’t stable/reused for too long.

The big problem - how can you tell for sure that is what is happening, and how would you catch a reversion if the underlying library changes behavior? Assuming you’re making a call into someone else’s stuff anyway.

A big challenge I’ve seen with UUID implementations is dependence on some kind of hidden system state that causes issues. like a MAC or nodeid file somewhere in a VM that gets cloned, resulting in duplicates where ‘duplicates should be impossible’.