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20 days agoDon’t forget that 999 was chosen in the era of rotary phones - it was (iirc) chosen explicitly because it was hard to dial accidentally.


Don’t forget that 999 was chosen in the era of rotary phones - it was (iirc) chosen explicitly because it was hard to dial accidentally.


Fairly large chunks of Windows code are examples of the latter, in fact.
I think it’s MS13…