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by flohofwoe 45 days ago
UUID v4 consists of only random bits, no timestamp info.
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Lammy 45 days ago
Wrong, they have 122 random bits out of 128. The other six bits are to say “hello I am a UUIDv4”.
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mittermayr 45 days ago
oh, interesting, I didn't know that and this could possibly be part of the problem perhaps depending on what's used as the seed.
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