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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 19:45:12 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Coworker: Explain what is /dev/null like i am five.
   Me: I got this. Imagine a trash can that can never be filled. You throw things in, they vanish. That's like /dev/null on a computer, a place where data disappears.

   • John Maxwell (jmax@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jun-2024 00:00:13 JST John Maxwell

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     @nixCraft "It's a trash can that works like your mental model of a trash can, not like a real one."