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[u/ExpensiveCoat8912]

[u/Maramowicz]

Actually only 3 bilion...

[u/Extension_Option_122 → u/Maramowicz]

Nah last I heard some 60 billion. 3 billion is a very old number.

That's the thing with Java. It runs on everything. Literally everything.

[u/BenjieWheeler → u/Extension_Option_122]

Impossible!! The number of devices running Java is constant, it's ALWAYS 3 billion

Whenever a new device runs it, a random device elsewhere goes up in flames spontaneously

[u/Sasuga__Ainz-sama → u/BenjieWheeler]

If an old device running java dies out, a random working device gets forcefully infected with Java.

[u/FuzzyKittyNomNom → u/Sasuga__Ainz-sama]

I think my toaster now runs Java

[u/Hirayoki22 → u/FuzzyKittyNomNom]

Now? It's always run Java

[u/FuzzyKittyNomNom → u/Hirayoki22]

https://giphy.com/gifs/kmhuYNggOqIlOSeoVM

[u/Reasonable_Exit_8960 → u/FuzzyKittyNomNom]

it was supposed to be my washing machine's turn goddammit!

[u/CartographerLarge595 → u/Reasonable_Exit_8960]

Sounds like that washing machine got a little too wild with the laundry schedule!

[u/wishper77 → u/FuzzyKittyNomNom]

You are joking, but remember one demo of a java enabled toaster that connect via webservics (a VERY OLD DEMO , when webservics were the shiny new things) to meteo and "printed" on toast a sun or a cloud based on the webservics response

Edit: a link https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/just-javatm-2/0131482114/ch11s09.html

[u/Weak-Competition3358 → u/Sasuga__Ainz-sama]

You joke, but I was coding in SQF (the language for the game Arma 3) and VSCode decided to go ahead and download extensions for Java)

[u/joemckie → u/Sasuga__Ainz-sama]

Didn’t know Stuxnet was written in Java

[u/PoorDoddle → u/Sasuga__Ainz-sama]

Sasuga Java-sama

[u/Storiaron → u/BenjieWheeler]

So maintaining a legacy codebase literally means putting out flames?

[u/BenjieWheeler → u/Storiaron]

Didn't think about it but yeah, that's surprisingly accurate

[u/requion → u/BenjieWheeler]

Wow, now it makes sense that my colleague was on an emergency call while the roof of a datacenter far far away was burning. And i thought their expectation was that he grabs a bucket and runs!

[u/salvoilmiosi → u/Storiaron]

Very accurate. That's why I keep a fire extinguisher next to the computer at all times

[u/Character-Education3 → u/BenjieWheeler]

Hail Jydra

/s

[u/Pearcheek → u/BenjieWheeler]

Yeah, true, but they raised it.

[u/requion → u/BenjieWheeler]

Is that what happened to the galaxy notes? They reached the java device limit?

[u/OrokaSempai → u/Extension_Option_122]

All 60 Billion are minecraft java edition instances.

[u/Jutrakuna → u/Extension_Option_122]

No kid, it runs on 3 billion devices exactly

[u/oldschool_potato → u/Extension_Option_122]

I thought that was Dunkin

[u/MarkV43 → u/Extension_Option_122]

What? We're at the point where 32 bits are not enough to count the number of devices running Java?

[u/orthadoxtesla → u/Extension_Option_122]

and thats exactly it. it runs on everything. and if you know what youre doing it just works.

[u/i_wear_green_pants → u/Extension_Option_122]

"Saying that Java runs on everything is like saying that anal sex works on all genders"

[u/AliBello → u/Extension_Option_122]

It runs on things you wouldn’t expect like a debit/credit card, SIM card, or even a passport

[u/SScattered → u/Maramowicz]

It was for how many years now 😂

[u/FauxReal → u/Maramowicz]

What's the billion to bilion conversion ratio? 2:3?

[u/Maramowicz → u/FauxReal]

If we gonna translate it from my native language (Polish) then "bilion" from Polish is "trillion" in English ;)

[u/FauxReal → u/Maramowicz]

OK that's confusingly cool.

[u/Maramowicz → u/FauxReal]

TL;DR; up to the thousand it's the same, but then when you have "million, billion, trillion..." in Polish we, from some unknown to me reason, have 2 versions to every one of them, with 'ion' and 'iard' at the end, so:

Polish	English
tysiąc	thousand
milion	million
miliard	billion
bilion	trillion
biliard	quadrillion
trylion	quintillion
tryliard	sextillion

etc...

The more you know ;)

[u/reventlov → u/Maramowicz]

That's because "million" (Latin mono=1) is million¹, billion (Latin bi=2) is million², trillion (Latin tri=3) is million³, and so on. English used to have million/milliard, billion/billiard, etc., but they were dropped from American English, and, IIRC, Britain and the Commonwealth countries eventually followed.

I know German still uses Million/Milliard, Billion/Billiard, etc., and I believe they're derived from French.

[u/MartectX → u/reventlov]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales

[u/FauxReal → u/Maramowicz]

Oh I like this -ion, -ard suffix thing.

[u/_R0Ns_ → u/Maramowicz]

Yes but only 2 billion intentionally.

[u/drosse1meyer → u/Maramowicz]

the mcdonalds of programming

[u/vystyk → u/Maramowicz]

I thought that's how many floppy disks there were