Well I learned quite a lot about GUID/UUID from this Microsoft Engineer post:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ol...

@SanitizedOutput don't try to shorten GUIDs by taking only part of its string. Every bit in its 128 bits (except for the fixed 2 bits) participates in making it unique. if you decide to take only the first half then you are only taking an encoded timestamp.

@SanitizedOutput well, this is embarrassing

Here is the correct link

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ol...

@MrCSharp Isn't most of that obvious? 😕