On 4/5/21 9:37 PM, Rob Sargent wrote:
>> It's a small thing, but UUIDs are absolutely not memorizable by
>> humans; they have zero semantic value. Sequential numeric identifiers
>> are generally easier to transpose and the value gives some clues to
>> its age (of course, in security contexts this can be a downside).
>>
> I take the above as a definite plus. Spent too much of my life correcting
> others’ use of “remembered” id’s that just happened to perfectly match the
> wrong thing.
People seem to have stopped appending check digits to identifiers about 20
years ago, and I'm not sure why.
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