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by notzorbo2 3865 days ago
You seem to be getting a lot of flack from people with 20-20 hindsight. For what it's worth, I have made the exact same assumptions you have when generating internal unique IDs in a distributed system purely for tracking purposes. The only difference was that mine was in Python and I got lucky that its random implementation uses a mersenne twister.