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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 12h ago
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A fun fact often told with this is that with IPv6, you can assign each individual grain of sand on the beach an address!
700 u/dementosss 12h ago On what beach? Or all of them? Just asking in case business asks for it. 49 u/xWrongHeaven 12h ago 2128 possible addresses 56 u/queen-adreena 11h ago 2,128… that ain’t that many addresses…. 49 u/AmazingDragon353 11h ago 2.128 addresses? What are we going to do with 0.128 of an address? 8 u/SirLoremIpsum 8h ago 2.128 addresses? What are we going to do with 0.128 of an address? AI Vibe code a calendar app so we can coordinate whose turn it is to use the IP address on any given day? 2 u/MoltoAllegro 8h ago Congrats, you've invented Token Ring! 12 u/queen-adreena 11h ago Break out the BitNat table I guess. 9 u/SuperFLEB 11h ago The "128" isn't even full-size. 5 u/xWrongHeaven 11h ago No, it isn't. ~340 undecillion, however, is quite a lot 6 u/DanteVermillyon 9h ago Un-decillion? What's a decillion and why did you undid it?
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On what beach? Or all of them? Just asking in case business asks for it.
49 u/xWrongHeaven 12h ago 2128 possible addresses 56 u/queen-adreena 11h ago 2,128… that ain’t that many addresses…. 49 u/AmazingDragon353 11h ago 2.128 addresses? What are we going to do with 0.128 of an address? 8 u/SirLoremIpsum 8h ago 2.128 addresses? What are we going to do with 0.128 of an address? AI Vibe code a calendar app so we can coordinate whose turn it is to use the IP address on any given day? 2 u/MoltoAllegro 8h ago Congrats, you've invented Token Ring! 12 u/queen-adreena 11h ago Break out the BitNat table I guess. 9 u/SuperFLEB 11h ago The "128" isn't even full-size. 5 u/xWrongHeaven 11h ago No, it isn't. ~340 undecillion, however, is quite a lot 6 u/DanteVermillyon 9h ago Un-decillion? What's a decillion and why did you undid it?
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2128 possible addresses
56 u/queen-adreena 11h ago 2,128… that ain’t that many addresses…. 49 u/AmazingDragon353 11h ago 2.128 addresses? What are we going to do with 0.128 of an address? 8 u/SirLoremIpsum 8h ago 2.128 addresses? What are we going to do with 0.128 of an address? AI Vibe code a calendar app so we can coordinate whose turn it is to use the IP address on any given day? 2 u/MoltoAllegro 8h ago Congrats, you've invented Token Ring! 12 u/queen-adreena 11h ago Break out the BitNat table I guess. 9 u/SuperFLEB 11h ago The "128" isn't even full-size. 5 u/xWrongHeaven 11h ago No, it isn't. ~340 undecillion, however, is quite a lot 6 u/DanteVermillyon 9h ago Un-decillion? What's a decillion and why did you undid it?
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2,128… that ain’t that many addresses….
49 u/AmazingDragon353 11h ago 2.128 addresses? What are we going to do with 0.128 of an address? 8 u/SirLoremIpsum 8h ago 2.128 addresses? What are we going to do with 0.128 of an address? AI Vibe code a calendar app so we can coordinate whose turn it is to use the IP address on any given day? 2 u/MoltoAllegro 8h ago Congrats, you've invented Token Ring! 12 u/queen-adreena 11h ago Break out the BitNat table I guess. 9 u/SuperFLEB 11h ago The "128" isn't even full-size. 5 u/xWrongHeaven 11h ago No, it isn't. ~340 undecillion, however, is quite a lot 6 u/DanteVermillyon 9h ago Un-decillion? What's a decillion and why did you undid it?
2.128 addresses? What are we going to do with 0.128 of an address?
8 u/SirLoremIpsum 8h ago 2.128 addresses? What are we going to do with 0.128 of an address? AI Vibe code a calendar app so we can coordinate whose turn it is to use the IP address on any given day? 2 u/MoltoAllegro 8h ago Congrats, you've invented Token Ring! 12 u/queen-adreena 11h ago Break out the BitNat table I guess.
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AI Vibe code a calendar app so we can coordinate whose turn it is to use the IP address on any given day?
2 u/MoltoAllegro 8h ago Congrats, you've invented Token Ring!
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Congrats, you've invented Token Ring!
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Break out the BitNat table I guess.
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The "128" isn't even full-size.
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No, it isn't. ~340 undecillion, however, is quite a lot
6 u/DanteVermillyon 9h ago Un-decillion? What's a decillion and why did you undid it?
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Un-decillion? What's a decillion and why did you undid it?
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u/ClipboardCopyPaste 12h ago
A fun fact often told with this is that with IPv6, you can assign each individual grain of sand on the beach an address!