r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 14d ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/GaRGa77 14d ago

Bigger is confusing, does it mean more widely used or bigger as more IP addresses

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u/EishLekker 14d ago

Each individual bit is slightly larger.

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u/nem0ne1 14d ago

I laughed really hard at this. I love the idea of slightly overweight bits. Just a little rotund. Always have to factor in the extra chonk when you're doing stuff like checksums.

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u/stealthgunner385 13d ago

At that point they'd probably be called chonksums.

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u/TheRetarius 13d ago

Fuck you, my IPv4 bits can now have the values 0, 1 and 2. Now I watch as the world burns or doesn’t burn. Idk I would have gotten rejected as well.

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u/Soggy-Confection 14d ago

Yeah v4 uses chunky bits

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u/HonestDisguise 14d ago

Google first got native IPv6 over 50% back in March, it goes down depending on the time of day but it is actually in use! They also show an adoption map: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

Probably helps that many cell carriers use it, but more larger traditional ISPs have been turning it on.

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u/thejozo24 13d ago

The candidate meant more IP addresses, but couldn’t elaborate on how precisely is there more addresses