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What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021)

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540 points napolux | 3 comments | 20 Nov 24 13:30 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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oxguy3 ◴[20 Nov 24 15:18 UTC] No.42194617[source]▶
> The photo was taken about coordinates 50.29092467073664, 4.893099128823844 near modern Wallonia, Belgium on the Meuse River.

Great writeup, but I did have a little chuckle reading "it was taken about near here", followed by coordinates precise enough to identify a single atom. https://xkcd.com/2170/

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vardump ◴[20 Nov 24 15:48 UTC] No.42194968[source]▶
Going to be a different atom once you walk near. Or temperature changes, the wind blows, and so on.

We’ll need to give each atom a unique ID. That would solve the problem.

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dylan604 ◴[20 Nov 24 16:23 UTC] No.42195468[source]▶
IPv8 is accepting RFCs
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1. Aerroon ◴[20 Nov 24 17:01 UTC] No.42195915[source]▶
There are 10^80 atoms in the universe, therefore 266 bits are enough to give each a unique identifier. Due to how computers work maybe we can do two numbers: a 32-bit type or area code and a 256-bit counter. Or perhaps we just combine them into a single 272 or 288 or 320-bit number.
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2. stackghost ◴[20 Nov 24 17:17 UTC] No.42196109[source]▶
Time for Intel to climb out of the pit by introducing x86_266
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