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Open your terminal, type ':(){ :|:& };:'. Notice how the whole OS becomes unresponsive. There is a very simple solution to both these problems, which most peop
by syrrim 10y ago
Open your terminal, type ':(){ :|:& };:'. Notice how the whole OS becomes unresponsive.
There is a very simple solution to both these problems, which most people employ to great effect: just don't do that.
- lloeki 10y agoBesides that doing `perl -e 'for (;;) {}'` and watching your OS burn down in flames (which it doesn't) is the correct parallel, I'll assume you have overlooked that we have no control on what JS does in whatever page we're presented with, and if it's some heavy handed code it has a significant impact on whatever else I may be doing on an unrelated tab, which feels like going back to plain old cooperative multitasking, upon which the above perl code would effectively be a blight.