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Distributed ID generation in python for the lazy.

3 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 2 comments · first 2013-08-12 · latest 2021-05-04

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  1. …and fits in a 64bit int, which is natively available in a lot of databases. [0] SimpleFlake - https://github.com/SawdustSoftware/simpleflake/blob/f2b51f76...
    comment by emidln · 2021-05-04 · in Sortable Collision-Free UUIDs
  2. …is not the random.random() Mersenne Twister one, it's the OS-provided cryptographically secure one: https://github.com/SawdustSoftware/simpleflake/blob/master/s... But in any case, the reason you need NTPd sync is not to seed the RNG, but…
    comment by makmanalp · 2013-08-12 · in Simpleflake - Distributed ID generation for the lazy