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Comment by flohofwoe

1 day ago

UUID v4 consists of only random bits, no timestamp info.

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Lammy  12 hours ago

Wrong, they have 122 random bits out of 128. The other six bits are to say “hello I am a UUIDv4”.

mittermayr  1 day 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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