[Alekhine]

No, it doesn't. It just sends 1 ECHO_REQUEST packet. If this was sarcasm I could not detect it

[Biganon]

Above: someone tries humor on Hacker News. It goes exactly as expected.

[elwell]

Is it possible you and your parent (my child) are deepening the sarcasm to indistinguishable degrees? I think not, but I like to imagine.

[kzrdude]

It seems to give up before sending anything at all:

    ping: invalid argument: '-1': out of range: 1 <= value <= 9223372036854775807