The Hex-Files
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I'd watch it
There supposedly is a tv show or movie in production based on The Laundry universe. Stross does not share much details since NDA afaiu.
For people unaware it is a Delta Green meets It Crowd meets X-Files. At some point an iPhone with an occult software suite lands in the hands of the protagonist.
Magic is applied math in that universe.
the 000s used to be general info, unassigned, now they're software
Someone decided that software books start at 0
Weirdly I can’t find lua references there
There are a few that someone just left behind in the 000s, but they can’t be relied on.
Reminder that the Dewey Decimal Classification system is racist and bigoted.
Unexplained, or just poorly documented?
Because there is, in the end, a logical explanation for everything even if it's "someone was stupid and/or a liar."