Laptop Overheats from Compute: Researcher Sticks It in the Fridge to Kill Process
lpachter · x · 2026-08-10
Prominent researcher Lior Pachter shared a hilarious and hardcore debugging experience on Twitter.
Due to severe overheating from a running task, he had to stick his laptop into the fridge just to keep the screen on long enough to execute a kill -9 command, forcibly terminating the runaway process.
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