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I love, in honestly both somewhat sarcastic but mostly very real sense, that hacker news discussion of global thermonuclear war...is how to prepare your database unique ID scheme for unforeseen sharding :->


We may be living in a radiological hellscape but at least we won't have ID collisions!


"The great EU/US Spanner schism of 2032"


METRIC WILL WIN


Little endians already won!

But beware the big endian insurgency




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