Then there’s people paying for pirated software in CDs/DVDs

Yeah, when you jumble the words, it is important to count which character is available how many times, or this happens and it’s no longer just jumbled.

I love those.

That’s how I learnt QCD before High School

I do it whenever I feel like. Don’t even feel the need to be regular.

With Win10, the notifications used to increase my tension

Did you mean, “interetn war neves created”?

Most companies just need more ppl that actually work rather than doing politics and profiting off of the 30% working personnel.

Yeah! Combine multiple Sky-T’s into a network to get Skynet

I see, in that case, that would not be someone like me :P as I tend to care about specifications.

This is a really useful explanation for someone who doesn’t know about the UEFI spec.

hesitation because they’re worried about “incriminating” themselves

This is a hard one. Because this is not about engineers, but their nature as people.

An anecdote: A lawyer, once casually asked me - if I were to design a building (this was hypothetical, because I am not a civil engineer) and after construction, was to realise some mistake that would cost lives, would I go on to tell them about it - and his tone seemed like he considered it common sense that I won’t report it.
So, at least in his mind, it is common sense that people hide their mistakes.

technical details

I am a kind of person that doesn’t know that people find it difficult to understand concepts out of their domain (mostly because I understand most, well explained stuff, irrespective of domain) and if someone were to ask me about my work, I would easily wander into the details. After a few years of industry experience, realising that to not be the case, I tend to be more abstract.

If you want the engineers to tell you more in depth about the technical stuff, I’d suggest you to show them your aptitude to understand their stuff and you will see them going more into detail of it. I had a manager (kind of), who was also an engineer and used Linux on a regular basis. I found it easy to discuss more in depth regarding solutions (the product was using Linux too) due to his familiarity.

Nice to know.

So, I would assume the firmware gave write access to a part of permanent memory, critical to starting the system.

I feel like that would be someone like me, thinking of it as a feature and giving the possible values for those variables in the readme. And of course, who reads the readme even though it says “READ ME”?