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How to guarantee an ID is unique in a non-UUID set of values?
I would like to have IDs of different sizes from the alphabet 0-9. So I have 5-length IDs as in 10000 or 13531, etc.. I have 10, 15, 20, up to 39 digit strings (the size of a UUID). I would like to ...
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Best way to choose random element from weighted list
I want to create a simple game. Every so often, a power up should appear. Right now the different kinds of power ups are stored in an array.
However, not every power up should appear equally often: ...