It’s as random as any other UUID.

Incorrect, only some UUIDs are random, specifically v4 and v7 (v7 uses time as well).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier

> 00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444

This would technically be version 2, which would be built from the date-time and MAC address, and DCE security version.

But overall, if you allow any yahoo to pick a UUID, its not really a UUID, its just some random string that looks like one.

> if you allow any yahoo to pick a UUID, its not really a UUID

universally unique identifier (UUID)

> 00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444

It's unique.

Anyway we're talking about a package that doesn't matter. It's abandoned. Furthermore it's also broken, because it uses REPL without importing it. You can't even precompile it.

https://github.com/pfitzseb/REPLTreeViews.jl/blob/969f04ce64...

Which is to say, not guaranteed at all. GUIDs are designed to be unique, not random/unpredictable

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20120523-00/?p=75...

The problem isn't only papers it's that the world of academic computer science coalesced around conference submissions instead of journal submissions. This isn't new and was an issue 30 years ago when I was in grad school. It makes the work of conference organizes the little block holding up the entire system.

Makes me grateful I'm in an area of CS where the "big" conferences are like 500 attendees.

The entire thread is people missing this simple point.

There's a better word for it.

It’s #9 on the list actually

We've taken the one task that computers are inherently good at and somehow made it worse.

It's become worse since 2017 when they changed the 1040 to make it "shorter." All they did was move everything to different forms so now it's an insane process of shuffling numbers back and forth across many forms.

They helpfully send you letter when you screwed up, too.

At least they don't make you pay for the postage!

But that uses TPM backed keys only protected by the TPM PSRs. Someone could still swipe your box and unlock the disk.

You don’t. You can’t even serve ads in search without issues. Even when ads on Google were basic text not inline they were an intrusion into the response.

Rick Scott made his money by being the CEO of a company that paid a $1.7 billion fine for Medicare fraud.[0] He’s one of the most corrupt people in Congress.

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