There also DRUUID: https://gist.github.com/bricss/53e5babedf44bf3ab71334c15102e...
reply> [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_ID
replyIsn't this just the same scheme as version 1 UUID, except with half the bits? I guess they didn't want to dedicate 128 bits to their IDs.
That also looks like the widely used BSON ids, to anyone else interested
replyGetting the entire universe to agree on a single clock for creating timestamps sounds absurdly difficult. Probably impossible?
reply"Agreement" of time is probably nonsense, yeah. I realized after posting so I edited in the parenthetical, but as [3] notes, locality probably makes this less of a real issue.
replyApparently with the birthday paradox 32 bit random IDs only allow some tens of thousands per second before collision chance passes 50%. Maybe that's acceptable?
The temperature of the cosmic microwave background can be used as a universal clock.
replySo can neutron star spin rates
replyNeutron star spins collectively can be used as a pretty accurate clock.
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