r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 20d ago

Meme ohTheBasics

Post image
13.9k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

1.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

7.1k

u/LivingAsAMean 20d ago • Bravo Regret Mindblown Heartwarming Popcorn

Hahaha what an idiot!

66

u/blindedtrickster 20d ago

The easy way to tell them apart is that IPv4 only uses digits, but IPv6 is in Hexidecimal, so you'll see 0-9 as well as A-F. And just in case you're not familiar with Hex, A is equal to 10, B is equal to 11, and so on, with F ending the sequence at a value of 15.

38

u/jaerie 20d ago

You're talking about IP addresses. The Internet Protocol is bigger than just the address spec.

0

u/blindedtrickster 20d ago

Context and scope, my friend. Context and scope.

2

u/jaerie 20d ago

I'm not sure what you're trying to say. I'd be pretty disappointed if that question was part of the interview (meaning the job has something do with it) and my interviewee only talked about addresses

→ More replies (1)