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.
But in this context, it’s about the loss of information, getting scrambled inside a black hole and then VERY slowly radiating back into space as gibberish.
It’s a point where thermodynamics, entropy, Relativity and the quantum realm create a paradox - classical physics states that information supposedly cannot be destroyed… and yet in this extreme environment, it IS destroyed.
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.
I thought it was an Epstein files joke
But in this context, it’s about the loss of information, getting scrambled inside a black hole and then VERY slowly radiating back into space as gibberish.
It’s a point where thermodynamics, entropy, Relativity and the quantum realm create a paradox - classical physics states that information supposedly cannot be destroyed… and yet in this extreme environment, it IS destroyed.
Awesome, thanks!!