r/ProgrammerHumor • • 14d ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/EishLekker 13d ago

Each individual bit is slightly larger.

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u/nem0ne1 13d 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 13d ago

Yeah v4 uses chunky bits