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I wasted all my generational luck for this (files.catbox.moe)
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[โ€“] bearboiblake@pawb.social 46 points 1 week ago (3 children)

An opportunity to share one of my favourite StackOverflow questions of all time!

It's well worth reading through the answers and the comments, but here's a little sampler platter:

This will run for a lot more than hours. Assuming it loops at 1 GHz (which it won't - it will be a lot slower than that), it will run for 10790283070806014188970 years. Which is about 83 billion times longer than the age of the universe.

damn - so maybe serveral threads generating guids is a better idea?

4 threads on a quad core processor would make it run in 20 billion times the age of the universe - so yeah, that would help a lot.

[โ€“] daw@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Apparently the guy now works at the federal crime office (bka) in Germany now๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

His description is "we all have our segfaults"

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