• adb@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    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…

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      2 months ago

      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.