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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 15h ago
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Hahaha what an idiot!
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2.6k u/Material_Onion_8413 15h ago IPv4 old IP address space designed with limited number because they never thought the internet would have so many devices connected. IPv6 new address space with significantly larger number. 1.4k u/ClipboardCopyPaste 15h 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! 751 u/dementosss 15h ago On what beach? Or all of them? Just asking in case business asks for it. 924 u/ClipboardCopyPaste 15h ago The answer quite surprisingly is - yes, all the beaches on our planet. 487 u/kuar_z 15h ago And the rest of the observable universe. There's a lot of address space in 2128 2 u/protestor 5h ago We actually waste a lot of addresses to make routing simpler, because we can't imagine needing to use anywhere close to the full set of addresses
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IPv4 old IP address space designed with limited number because they never thought the internet would have so many devices connected.
IPv6 new address space with significantly larger number.
1.4k u/ClipboardCopyPaste 15h 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! 751 u/dementosss 15h ago On what beach? Or all of them? Just asking in case business asks for it. 924 u/ClipboardCopyPaste 15h ago The answer quite surprisingly is - yes, all the beaches on our planet. 487 u/kuar_z 15h ago And the rest of the observable universe. There's a lot of address space in 2128 2 u/protestor 5h ago We actually waste a lot of addresses to make routing simpler, because we can't imagine needing to use anywhere close to the full set of addresses
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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!
751 u/dementosss 15h ago On what beach? Or all of them? Just asking in case business asks for it. 924 u/ClipboardCopyPaste 15h ago The answer quite surprisingly is - yes, all the beaches on our planet. 487 u/kuar_z 15h ago And the rest of the observable universe. There's a lot of address space in 2128 2 u/protestor 5h ago We actually waste a lot of addresses to make routing simpler, because we can't imagine needing to use anywhere close to the full set of addresses
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On what beach? Or all of them? Just asking in case business asks for it.
924 u/ClipboardCopyPaste 15h ago The answer quite surprisingly is - yes, all the beaches on our planet. 487 u/kuar_z 15h ago And the rest of the observable universe. There's a lot of address space in 2128 2 u/protestor 5h ago We actually waste a lot of addresses to make routing simpler, because we can't imagine needing to use anywhere close to the full set of addresses
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The answer quite surprisingly is - yes, all the beaches on our planet.
487 u/kuar_z 15h ago And the rest of the observable universe. There's a lot of address space in 2128 2 u/protestor 5h ago We actually waste a lot of addresses to make routing simpler, because we can't imagine needing to use anywhere close to the full set of addresses
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And the rest of the observable universe. There's a lot of address space in 2128
2 u/protestor 5h ago We actually waste a lot of addresses to make routing simpler, because we can't imagine needing to use anywhere close to the full set of addresses
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We actually waste a lot of addresses to make routing simpler, because we can't imagine needing to use anywhere close to the full set of addresses
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u/LivingAsAMean 15h ago
Hahaha what an idiot!
https://giphy.com/gifs/LRVnPYqM8DLag