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Re:The IPv6 Numeric IP Format Is a Usability Problem by proactivesvcs on Friday February 19, 2016 @07:22PM (#11137835)
I parsed that as Conway's Life. Which is odd, because I've not played with, nor seen it, since about 1993! I'll be plumbing that into Life to see what happens.
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Re:The IPv6 Numeric IP Format Is a Usability Problem by elcritch on Saturday February 20, 2016 @05:29PM (#11142276)
hehe, now I'm going to envision a giant Conway's game of life being played every time I see a room full of IoT devices on IPv6.

Wonder if there would be an interesting way to visualize a cascading failure of the kind that brought down AWS in past years. Which of course makes one wonder if there would be any kind of useful calculus for a series of such glyphs.

PS: according to wikipedia there is a calculus of communicating systems of sorts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_of_communicating_syst...

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