Comment on What host names do you use?

DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• killabeezio@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have to ask, why start with 0? I never understood this with infrastructure. I would do something like 00000 if I did numbers so it would be easy to sort, but I always started with 1. I’m just curious.

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  • notgold@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    First non negative integer so easy for computer to display.

    I only really use zero in networking names to correspond with an IPv4 address that ends with dot zero.

    I think it’s just what you’re used to. Like counting bottom to top in teleco versus counting top to bottom in IT.

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  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    One possibility could be because in conventional “computer counting” in (most) coding languages, it starts at zero. Like if I make an array of things

    [monke, chimp, peanut]

    monke would be [0]

    chimp would be[1]

    peanut would be [2]

    Once I learned about this concept I started naming enumerated things from 0 usually just to keep a kind of consistency. Maybe I think if it’s a habit, I won’t make those mistakes with code. :p

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Use Lua, it uses one-based arrays. This is nice for a few reasons:

      • last element is array[length]
      • zero can be reserved for the type (especially nice for representing XML: 0 = node name, 1-N = children, named table entries = attributes)
      • very rarely see + 1 and - 1 in my code

      It feels wrong coming from C, but it’s actually really nice, especially since the reasons C does it don’t apply (i.e. index is just a memory offset).

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• VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Finally someone who actually uses a Vostro. Always found that name unreasonably funny.

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• Toribor@corndog.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is basically how I do it too.

  I used to be more creative but then I got in the habit of running more servers and swapping hardware more frequently so it got harder to remember what hardware I was actually connecting to. Now they get hardware based names and everything else is named by service-based Ansible roles.

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