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.
