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How many user pictures are there to choose from, though? This is a nice, elegant way to sample from the set, but the nature, size, and frequency of the problem don't justify more than five or ten seconds' or thought and one or two minutes of coding.

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But multiplied by the number of times it'll run on the planet, and you have a surprisingly big impact.

Exactly this, if you count the amount of time the windows 11 context menu needs to pop up and then the second click to get to the old context menu across the entire globe for a month, you would get an insane amount of time and cycles wasted

I guess I'd do it once, the slow and easy way, and cache the result. But that's just me.

The billions of times aren't repeated times for the same person, it's because it's been done for the first time billions of times. This is the "choose a user's initial profile picture". They're not randomly changing it.

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