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Cake day: November 22nd, 2025

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  • Dead serious question: I have only ever worked in the public sector (state level and local municipality) but often see or hear about these seemingly idiotic “interview questions” on television (and obviously memes).

    Is this:

    1. just a meme
    2. just a joke
    3. an actual phenomenon in the private sector

    If 3, what on earth is its purpose and what could the interviewer possibly find out about the applicant by asking this?

    I’m calm.


  • Thanks! I’m doing this on Linux, which I failed to mention in the post. I terminated the program with ctrl + c, but it was still interesting to me how such a short, seemingly uncomplicated snippet could tax my Ryzen 7 5800 X3D so much that the fans needed to increase their speed. Couldn’t a malicious actor theoretically disrupt a target machine by having an unnoticeably insignificant program loop in the background, taxing the CPU to it’s usable limits? This is off topic of course, but still interesting.