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by scrygl 39 days ago
Here is one of the X posts I was referencing: https://x.com/initjean/status/2054281688801321457?s=20

Basically in theory you could generate 1M UUIDs per second and never have a collision for the life of the universe. But in practice due to bad entropy some collisions have been seen in practice. I made the service in part as a joke off of this discussion, but also in case anyone may actually want to use it, it will dutifully provide the advertised function.