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Yeah, but if you have shipping01...03 instead of quirky-noun, ugly-color, and random-animal, then everybody will just know what's broken straight away and you won't have a job

Besides, half of the fun is in figuring out who (or what!) deployed the mystery service, as well as the secrets that lie within (and are not in the password manager for some reason, Carrrl)

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Suddenly lamenting the emptiness left by the lack of configurability for those name generators, a la i18n.

"Pop-culturation, or p13n, helps teams reduce the randomness of their random names by seeding the noun/adjective list with configurable themes, like old-timey western european guys in wigs, famous rapppers, characters from The Office, Seinfeld, Pokemon, and more. In this repo, I will..."

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