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.
nixCraft 🐧 /
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2024-06-17 10:45:08
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2024-06-17 10:45:08Event JSON
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