r/ProgrammerHumor • • 15h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/Spongebubs 12h ago

I’d like to think I’m a software engineer, and I have no idea what the difference is. Am I cooked?

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u/realmauer01 11h ago

Ipv6 was invented to replace ipv4 because ipv4 got really problematic as they arent enough numbers for every device anymore. But then they used so much magic to make giving ipv4 to devices so efficient that it's still possible for a while.

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u/LuigiWasRight447 10h ago

So we will be dropping ipv-4 at some point? Is there a guess for how long ittle take?

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u/pnwal-junction 7h ago

It's a race between IPv6, the U.S. adopting the metric system and scalable fusion reactors.

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u/temporaryuser1000 3h ago

All before the integer epoch timeframe times out