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Can i do: dd if=/dev/null of=/ ?
I understand just enough of this joke to chuckle.
Have you no shame, flexing all that knowledge in front of us ignorant peons?
I had to google Hawking bits and then fell into a black h…
It’s really an astrophysics joke disguised as a computer science joke. Hawking radiation is the term for radiation that escapes a black hole. /dev/null is kinda analogous to—at least the pop culture conception of—a black hole.
This is even funnier considering the question of if hawking radiation allows information to leave a black hole or not
It’s even funnier given that the universe is still too warm for black holes to start evaporating. Meaning, it will be billions upon billions of years before any Hawking radiation could exist in order to be observed.
