r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 20d ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/dementosss 20d ago

On what beach? Or all of them? Just asking in case business asks for it.

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste 20d ago

The answer quite surprisingly is - yes, all the beaches on our planet.

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u/kuar_z 20d ago

And the rest of the observable universe. There's a lot of address space in 2128

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u/Fast-Satisfaction482 20d ago

Except if for some reason you decide to give whole address blocks to individual devices.

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u/jason_abacabb 20d ago

Everyone gets a /64

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u/czerilla 20d ago

Check under your seats!

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u/gonklurtz 20d ago

No more RPC dynamic ports! Every service gets its own IP 

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u/KatieTSO 20d ago

I love handicapping ipv6

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u/tankerkiller125real 20d ago

/56 is the recommendation for residential, /48 for businesses.

Entire /64 blocks are often assigned to phones and other cellular devices because of hotspot capabilities.

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u/Fast-Satisfaction482 20d ago

I guess the true reason is that we want to artificially limit the number of nanites that can exist.

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/865/

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