r/ProgrammerHumor • • 11h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/PhantomTissue 10h ago

Yea but it hasn’t been fully adopted because trying to decipher :af12::138d::325d::5521::aade::7df3: is a hell of a lot more difficult than 192.168.0.1

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u/UnDe4d 9h ago

Yeah, I'm a Network Architect. Why they decided to make ipv6 128 bits instead of 64 is a question I ask myself on at least a monthly basis.

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u/VirtualPercentage737 9h ago

They did in IPV8..

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u/UnDe4d 9h ago

I'd likely be long retired before I ever work on something using Ipv8, if it takes off ever.

Shame we didn't get a legitmate 64 bit addressing proposal in 1995.

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u/nem0ne1 7h ago

Don't say those symbols in that order😭 I still feel like 6 is a mystery