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don't do ai and code kids (quokk.au)

submitted 10 months ago by Deceptichum@quokk.au to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

The /bin dir on any Linux install is the recycle bin. Save space by regularly deleting its contents

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[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Surprisingly I have not heard this before

sudo rm -rf /bin/*

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I legitimately did this unprompted the first time I installed Linux on a computer when I was in my late teens.

I fully believed that /bin/ was actually just a bin. I didn't know it stood for binary or whatever

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