Snowflake is referenced in the article "Credits" with a distinction between the products -- though, the product name is a bit dubious. It [Flake] differs primarily in that we allow ourselves a wider address space in which to fit ids which means we don’t have to think about timestamp truncation or coordination of worker ids.

Yeah. But the hard part is the 64bit representation. If you have 128 bits, you can no longer be a standard int. And you can just use UUIDs if you don't care about k-ordering.