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atoavtoday at 6:01 AM1 replyview on HN

How do you usually remember uuids or hashes if you have to?

Many people basically just read the start and the end and compare that, given the huge collision space.

I find 51ac0759fc4d far less memorable than kalo-tadu-komu-tigi. Also if I had to tell one of those over the telephone to my parents and my life depended on it I would choose the latter.


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NitpickLawyertoday at 6:42 AM

> Also if I had to tell one of those over the telephone to my parents and my life depended on it I would choose the latter.

Why not adopt the crypto (as in coins) seed thing with random words? Those are much more human readable, imo than "bubu bibi baba".