Not even a fucking made up sentence. That was a real developer expressing a real problem.

Use whatever you have currently or free castoffs from family/friends. If it has specific issues, then upgrade to fix those issues.

I am using a 10+ year old desktop computer with new hard drives to host NFS for my Jellyfin. Installed FreeBSD with ZFS. 8 GB RAM (any video I play will be smaller than available RAM), 4 cores. My TVs are NOT 4K. Zero issues.

Building codes, at least the ones I am aware of, require the light switch inside the room with the light next to the door, similar to how nearly every room you have ever been in. (Everyone knows of exceptions.) This means either corners have been cut, at those switches should control things within the room with the switches.

As the interviewer if attention to detail and following build codes and specifications is important at this company. Is there a culture of safety, or are corners cut that put my life at risk.

Every groups have a “testing”. Some also have a “production”.

Me too!

And I quickly found out why everyone else had left. (The job after was good though.)

I understand the failure rates for the GPUs is huge. The duty cycles tend to be high, with power and cooling issues.

(Actually the power issues are wild and can destroy power distribution and generation equipment. “Power Stabilization for AI Training Datacenters” 21 Aug 2025 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14318)

Another advantage of cookbooks. (There are good ones, but a lot are junk.)

Is that even typical? At work we have like one Windows computer per person. But everyone has like 8 computers at home.

Few run Windows in multi-user anymore. Most servers are doing Linux.

I am assuming simultaneous, not one at a time multi-user. Which could happen.

No advantage to using social media tied to your name or identity.

Be a hermit crab. Start new accounts periodically. Be certain they are not tied to your meat space persona.

That only applies in this situation if the requestor is also the owner of the building, as in the OP it is assumed the requestor owns the computer.

(On a multi-user system it is unlikely running Windows.)

I agree with you. The implications are staggering.

The kernel change in WinXP really helped stability. It was certainly easy to have a bad install with any of them though.

Win98 SE was my personal “best experience” with Windows, with WinXP a close second. (Though this likely has to do with the hardware and tasks I was experiencing at the time.)

Remember how much people HATED Win95? They still moved to it to escape DOS, but still. Loads of hate.

Ah, but I bet those monkeys produce more text than Shakespeare! At least within the last 6 months!

Seems a better prompt could solve that.

One’s dishwasher is not exposed to a harsh environment. A large percentage of code is exposed to an openly hostile environment.

If a dishwasher breaks, it can destroy a floor, a room, maybe the rooms below. If code breaks it can lead to the computer, then network, being compromised. Followed by escalating attacks that can bankrupt a business and lead to financial ruin. (This is possibly extreme, but cyber attacks have destroyed businesses. The downside risks of terrible code can be huge.)

Alternative Headline: Billionaire Signals States Should Speed Fiber Rollout

Perhaps this could tax the huge data centers being built in the USA, which tend to get huge local tax incentives. But, if I had a data center I was trying to kit out, this would encourage me to setup shop any place other than the USA. (Latency matters, but not equally for everything.)

Didn’t Nancy Regan, wife of former USA President Ronald Regan, did this as well. (Ronald was apparently not mentally fit for the last few years as well.)