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Comment Re:Any day now! (Score 1) 320

That's a reasonable analogy. Both cases are driven by external factors (mathematics for IPv4, atmospheric chemistry for gas-powered cars), and the authorities are doing a fairly poor job of solving the collective action problem.

Everybody *wants* to stuff a trillion numbers into 32 bits, and stuff infinite carbon into the air, but reality doesn't care what we want.

Comment Re:It will prety much suck for quite some time. (Score 4, Informative) 320

It's difficult to manipulate binary digits in hexadecimal, too. I don't see any advantage to this.

Every hex digit represents exactly 4 binary digits. If you flip a bit in a hexadecimal number, then exactly one hex digit will change. To know how it will change, you only need to remember the binary values of 0-F.

With decimal, you could flip a bit and change every digit in the number.

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