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Why we should INSIST that years are written in full
Two missing digits can change the century and corrupt the record A document I received during the evening of 9 September 2026 has a section headed “History”. Its version table dates version 1.0 as 20.08.26. I presume that means 20 August 2026. The date itself does not establish that. Under a year–month–day convention, the same…
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Why Your Document Vanishes but Your Secrets Won’t Die
The Asymmetry of Digital Loss & The Tyranny of Tiny Secrets There is a familiar little cruelty in computing: the thing you need is always easy to lose, while the thing you desperately need to delete seems almost impossible to destroy with certainty. The document you were working on yesterday has vanished into some folder,…
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