> Yeah, so they did it, waste of a good machine for known outcome if ask me, very wasteful with no need. And yet there are plenty of people who don't understan

> Yeah, so they did it, waste of a good machine for known outcome if ask me, very wasteful with no need. And yet there are plenty of people who don't understand that software problems can cause permanent damage to hardware or people. Or they think of it in the abstract. I don't think it's wasteful to demonstrate. It was definitely costly in this case. I think the author could have done with a smaller demonstration. But there is something to be said for grandeur. > So I am not seeing anything in that excerpt other than highighting bad design practices. Indeed. I think that was exactly the point of the demonstration.