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Re:Version 100 in Chrome and Firefox by Beltalowda on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @02:31PM (#30351455)
I'd wager it's mostly fixed string indexes, regular expressions ("\d{2}"), and things like that. Maybe also some people with a "varchar(2)" column in the database.

A lot of software is written by junior programmers, not infrequently in a hurry. It's an easy mistake to make and if you've been bitten by it once you'll remember it, but many people have never been bitten by it.

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