The way this article is written feels very selfish with a distinct lack of empathy for how so called introverts might have felt in a similar position
Thing like this feel especially disingenuous
> Living a real, physical life outside the home is good because humans need friction. Convenience is alluring but it is dangerous, because getting used to it means forgetting that being alive isn’t meant to always be easy. We should run our errands in person and queue at the Post Office and eat in restaurants because it is good to remember that sometimes we have to wait around, or go to several shops because the first one didn’t have what we needed.
These are things I was able and am able to do without have to go to the office five days a week
Because the fields are there for humans, in the packet itself it’s a 32bit integer, and you can’t just arbitrarily make the src/dest fields in the packet bigger— it stops being IPv4 then.
I'm pretty sure the person you're replying to is saying that IPv6, should be IPv4 but longer, which is not at all an uncommon opinion, even if it's a breaking change to the IP protocol. And I'd argue there would've been incredibly strong benefits and much wider adoption if they did this. Sure, you'd still need new networking gear and software support to handle it, but the change is relatively simple (and potentially more easily backwards compatible), especially compared to all of the baggage that came with IPv6.
It's a fact of life that working with networking that we'll have to work with IP addresses at some level. It's easy to tell someone, "hey try typing in 'ping 8.8.8.8' and tell me what you get".
The readability of IPv6 is, in my opinion, worse with repeated symbols and more characters to remember. The symbols that were chosen were also poorly thought out. Colons are used in networking a lot of times when you want to connect to a service on a particular port, so if you want to visit 2001:4860:4860::8888 in your browser, you have to enclose the address in square brackets.
> The Congress shall have Power…To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
Thing like this feel especially disingenuous
> Living a real, physical life outside the home is good because humans need friction. Convenience is alluring but it is dangerous, because getting used to it means forgetting that being alive isn’t meant to always be easy. We should run our errands in person and queue at the Post Office and eat in restaurants because it is good to remember that sometimes we have to wait around, or go to several shops because the first one didn’t have what we needed.
These are things I was able and am able to do without have to go to the office five days a week