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[โ€“] Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

418 comes from an April fools' joke published as RFC7168.

I've used it for debugging before because it stands out and is generally suported.

[โ€“] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 month ago

I once returned it in a home assignment in case true == false and added a comment that it's cosmic radiation induced bit flip detection.

I got the job.