For anyone wondering, it is a classic: a bash fork-bomb. If there are no restrictions in place, it will recursivly try call itself creating more requests ...
Its only indirectly harmful: Your system might get unresponsive and require a hard boot. But then again you and other users might loose unsaved work.
Re: maximum efficiency: I believe bees construct honeycomb cells as circles, but due to surface tension they then form themselves into hexagons to achieve a “minimal surface” (lots of popular math/science YouTube’s have covered minimal surfaces, great videos all around).
I don’t think this invalidates your ping at all, but it’s good knowledge to have. The hexagon emerges from the constructed circles.
Or they just burrow straight into wood... Or just find an empty hole that looks cozy. I drilled a bunch of holes in a post by my door and now I have some little buzzy neighbors :)
However, while it's mundane knowledge now that hives can do optimizations etc. collectively, the point of the article is, no, individual bees are intelligent.
My main machine is a Macbook Pro and I find the control key to be in a fine position. Just curl the pinky down two rows. Backspace is much farther away.
I don't really agree that it's been abandoned, nothing suggest that this is true. They're not known for just abandoning established services, there's a public roadmap[0] that you can follow. Like all services there are pros and cons. Up until very recently EKS lacked more or less everything ECS has in tight integration with other AWS services, so there's that.