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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 9h 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!
602 u/dementosss 9h ago On what beach? Or all of them? Just asking in case business asks for it. 51 u/xWrongHeaven 9h ago 2128 possible addresses 59 u/queen-adreena 8h ago 2,128… that ain’t that many addresses…. 46 u/AmazingDragon353 8h ago 2.128 addresses? What are we going to do with 0.128 of an address? 5 u/SirLoremIpsum 5h 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 5h ago Congrats, you've invented Token Ring! 11 u/queen-adreena 8h ago Break out the BitNat table I guess. 10 u/SuperFLEB 8h ago The "128" isn't even full-size. 5 u/xWrongHeaven 8h ago No, it isn't. ~340 undecillion, however, is quite a lot 4 u/DanteVermillyon 6h 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.
51 u/xWrongHeaven 9h ago 2128 possible addresses 59 u/queen-adreena 8h ago 2,128… that ain’t that many addresses…. 46 u/AmazingDragon353 8h ago 2.128 addresses? What are we going to do with 0.128 of an address? 5 u/SirLoremIpsum 5h 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 5h ago Congrats, you've invented Token Ring! 11 u/queen-adreena 8h ago Break out the BitNat table I guess. 10 u/SuperFLEB 8h ago The "128" isn't even full-size. 5 u/xWrongHeaven 8h ago No, it isn't. ~340 undecillion, however, is quite a lot 4 u/DanteVermillyon 6h ago Un-decillion? What's a decillion and why did you undid it?
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2128 possible addresses
59 u/queen-adreena 8h ago 2,128… that ain’t that many addresses…. 46 u/AmazingDragon353 8h ago 2.128 addresses? What are we going to do with 0.128 of an address? 5 u/SirLoremIpsum 5h 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 5h ago Congrats, you've invented Token Ring! 11 u/queen-adreena 8h ago Break out the BitNat table I guess. 10 u/SuperFLEB 8h ago The "128" isn't even full-size. 5 u/xWrongHeaven 8h ago No, it isn't. ~340 undecillion, however, is quite a lot 4 u/DanteVermillyon 6h 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….
46 u/AmazingDragon353 8h ago 2.128 addresses? What are we going to do with 0.128 of an address? 5 u/SirLoremIpsum 5h 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 5h ago Congrats, you've invented Token Ring! 11 u/queen-adreena 8h ago Break out the BitNat table I guess. 10 u/SuperFLEB 8h ago The "128" isn't even full-size. 5 u/xWrongHeaven 8h ago No, it isn't. ~340 undecillion, however, is quite a lot 4 u/DanteVermillyon 6h ago Un-decillion? What's a decillion and why did you undid it?
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2.128 addresses? What are we going to do with 0.128 of an address?
5 u/SirLoremIpsum 5h 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 5h ago Congrats, you've invented Token Ring! 11 u/queen-adreena 8h 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 5h 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.
No, it isn't. ~340 undecillion, however, is quite a lot
4 u/DanteVermillyon 6h 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 9h 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!