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[–] 75 points 11 months ago (3 children)

crypto - as in cryptography, not cryptocurrency - is just the library he's using to generate the 128-bit random UUID. The snippet is interesting because he matched the original UUID in just over 5 hours. You'd expect to need more than 10^38 guesses to pick the same number again, which, even at 1 guess every microsecond, means something like 10^22 years.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    Sorry, I forgot to add the /s.

    But thank you for the calculations, it's actually interesting :) I was thinking about that myself, but didn't bother to do the math.

    I thought its reminiscent of cryptomining as it also consist of guessing an arbitrary number just for fun.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    Internet sarcasm is hard, and lemmy has a very general audience :) I'm always happy when someone gives me an excuse to do the math I was already curious about - it's often not worth it, for just my own curiosity, but even a sarcastic or disingenuous prompt reminds me that there's other casually curious people out there.

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