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by TheSpiceIsLife 4117 days ago
This could be integrated in to an SDK - Superstitious Developer Kit. Other tools in the chain could check for things like Friday the 13th, the occurrence of three consecutive sixes in your IP address, and tell you which oils to vaporise, incense to burn, crystals to wear, homoeopathic prophylactics to take, whether it's okay to build or deploy if you, your mother, or sister(s) are menstruating, and so on and so forth.
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Better look for consecutive sixes in both hexadecimal and decimal, too.
Pattern recognition would be needed due to the sheer number of potential vectors for evil numbers (auto-assigned client-side tcp port numbers, 'evil bit' tcp flag, network-order bitstream integers, packed binary objects, memory allocation/access, user ids, etc). There's a lot of potential mysticism we haven't touched on with either cryptography or AI....
Hexadecimal: the numeric base of Deep Black Magic.
This would be fantastic.
IPv666?