alt Hacker NewsGood moment to revisit this fun article: https://jasonfantl.com/posts/Universal-Unique-IDs/
If the entire universe were turned into a giant computer and did nothing but generate uuids until its heat death, how many bits would you need for the ID space?
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CodeWriter23 • yesterday at 6:08 PM
If you're gonna go there, this is obligatory https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
"But are you worried that every human on Earth will be hit by a meteorite right now? That probability is also non-zero, yet it is so infinitesimally small that we treat it as an impossibility."
This might be a bad example because one meteorite could take out the world and given enough time is likely to.