ELI5: Why would you ever report a homeless person?

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Because they shouldn’t be in a server room. There are extremely expensive, very sensitive components in there. You can damage millions of dollars worth of equipment if you don’t know what you’re doing.

Yeah, I wouldn’t call the cops, but that’s pretty high on the list of bad places for a homeless encampment.

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I mean, they shouldn’t be in a server room probably, it’s not entirely safe.

Because people are assholes

Is that Giano Sleaze?

I’m not homeless, though my backpack does have a wraparound pillow attached to it for when I used to camp in Chinese data centers or do chip bringup.

Have a collapsible cot in my trunk too.

Remember in the old Internet days there was that programmer that designed his own sleep coffin so he could take naps in his cubicle?

I am imagining an actual tent or tarp spun up in the warm air channel and actually camping there.

Great mental image. Thank you!

Edit: Quick try at 1am to visualize it with Dall-E:

That’s cute. It was noisier than you can possibly imagine, but damn if you didn’t need that nap while tests ran.

Only was in a very small scale datacenter and it was very noisy but I could probably sleep with a good pair of ANC headphones.

Earplugs, but also you just get used to it as white noise.

But yeah, loud as hell.

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