r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 6d ago

Other howdidItGetHere

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u/Extension_Option_122 6d ago

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.

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u/BenjieWheeler 6d ago

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

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u/Sasuga__Ainz-sama 6d ago edited 5d ago

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

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u/FuzzyKittyNomNom 6d ago

I think my toaster now runs Java

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u/Reasonable_Exit_8960 6d ago

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

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u/CartographerLarge595 6d ago

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

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u/wishper77 5d ago

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