the thing about randomness is you can get two 0x00 answers in a row and they are 100% valid. Using random numbers for something which required Unique numbers is crazy.

The state of "we somehow generated two identical UUIDs" cannot be prevented in the real world. You can only reduce the chance to acceptable levels.

Compared to the risks that are accepted in basically all devices, the danger from using big random numbers is negligible. Which makes it not crazy to do.

And everyone runs on unreliable hardware.

So yes, I did compare them. Do you have a reason I shouldn't?

If cosmic rays will cause one collision per decade, and "allowed" random collisions will cause one collision per million years, then why care about the increase in risk?

And let's be clear. This github issue is not happening because of using truly random numbers to generate full-size UUIDs. The problem is something else.