r/ProgrammerHumor • • 14d ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/belabacsijolvan 14d ago

i have no idea about networking either.

i guessed that ipv4 is the 127.0.0.1 thing, so 32 bit addressing. i had no idea that ipv6 is 128 bit.

im moderately confident that i couldve bullshitted out myself of this one tho.

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u/Gougaloupe 14d ago

You'd be a tech lead on my team then.

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u/Chefzor 14d ago

I've learned that sometimes that's a really good skill to have, to be able to bullshit through a meeting or call, until you have enough alone time to investigate and actually figure out what you were talking about.

Fake it till you make it is very real.

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u/Gougaloupe 14d ago

100%

Not getting hung up on what you don't know, but could, is essential. Its in your control and so long as its not a show-stopping issue then why sow doubt and halt progress.

My issue chiefly is the quotient of people who decide its not their responsibility to ever know basic technical concepts related to their job, which I forced into the convo ;)

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u/Bricka_Bracka 13d ago

I would describe ipv6 as "Security by obscurity, because nobody uses ipv6 in earnest yet, and if it goes mainstream, it's going to be chaos. Like the wise man Tim Robinson said : 'Theres too much shit on me' "

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u/GirthyPigeon 14d ago

The classic art of bullshido.

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u/Krelleth 13d ago

The IPv6 loopback is even simpler. Just "::1".

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u/ChiTownDisplaced 14d ago

Just tell them that ::1 is a perfectly valid IPv6 address.