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by ihaveajob 2161 days ago
Reminds me of my first year in college, when we'd log into each other's machines at the computer lab for some intro to computing class, and launch a fork-bomb script that simply launched itself twice, quickly rendering the machine useless. The tricky part was to test it without halting your own machine, as a newbie programmer and Unix user.
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Haha - We have it too easy these days and can just spin up a VM with Virtual Box (or similar) to test stuff like this.