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It is certainly not a horrendous idea; it is commonly used for serial numbers in engineering. For example a part number would have a serial number that is a su

It is certainly not a horrendous idea; it is commonly used for serial numbers in engineering. For example a part number would have a serial number that is a subset of A-Z, skipping the easily ambiguous O,I and similar.

tonyhb 9y ago
Say, for example, the base 58 character set used by bitcoin.
asher 9y ago
Related: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/idgen/0.0.1 https://pypi.python.org/pypi/idgen/0.0.1 That's one way to ensure safety of domain names, at the cost of mnemonics ;)