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It's fairly common among a lot of developers, sadly. Linux/OSS folks are less prone to it, but I've seen kitchen sink setups there as well.

An old colleague used to joke: "Developers should never have fast machines". Point being, they'll appreciate every spare CPU cycle and byte of memory available.




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