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Did you know? There are so many IPv6 addresses that if we assigned one to every atom on Earth, we would immediately run out

May 10, 2024 at 14:48 UTC

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Doob @yungtubbysimp.bsky.social
[ View ] May 10, 2024 at 16:24 UTC

really makes ya think

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Peter @pschastain.bsky.social
[ View ] May 11, 2024 at 23:44 UTC

These are the kinds of facts I come to BS for

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Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com
[ View ] May 11, 2024 at 15:14 UTC

Who keeps assigning IPs to atoms

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Tom @alttag.bsky.social
[ View ] May 10, 2024 at 22:59 UTC

This is why we have NAT.

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social
[ View ] May 10, 2024 at 15:05 UTC

a small price to pay

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busco quadnary @imaghost.ooo
[ View ] May 11, 2024 at 06:54 UTC

yeah but we'd only miss by like 12 orders of magnitude, which is... an unfathomably large number but still pretty impressive

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intangible crapshoot girl @prismaticblood.bsky.social
[ View ] May 12, 2024 at 11:07 UTC

amazing, truly amazing thats innovation for you!!

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Shape @sxape.bsky.social
[ View ] May 10, 2024 at 21:43 UTC

In case you are too lazy to calculate that 1.33 * 10 ^ 50 / 340282366920938463463374607431768211456 = 390851871648 This means that there are three hundred ninety billion eight hundred fifty one million eight hundred seventy one thousand six hundred forty eight times more atoms than IPv6 addresses

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