DO NOT RUN THAT or risk breaking Computer Fraud and Abuse Act! It sends a 'reverse ping' from Google to you, and it effectively hacks their server to initiate it.
No, it doesn't. It just sends 1 ECHO_REQUEST packet. If this was sarcasm I could not detect it
It seems to give up before sending anything at all:
ping: invalid argument: '-1': out of range: 1 <= value <= 9223372036854775807
Above: someone tries humor on Hacker News. It goes exactly as expected.
Is it possible you and your parent (my child) are deepening the sarcasm to indistinguishable degrees? I think not, but I like to imagine.
Please explain
Programmer humor is generally terrible
Hah, clearly you have no idea of what you are talking! In order to ascertain the general level of humor of a programmer, you would have to assume all programmers are equivalent! Furthermore you would be assuming that there is one kind of humor, which is clearly a fallacy. Finally, the amount of "terribleness" you allude to cannot be quantified in such a way as to distinguish an objective level of quality. Therefore you are clearly wrong! Try doing some research before you share such a naive opinion in the future.
qed
The `-c -1` reads like it's requesting sending negative one pings, hence the reversal.