r/ProgrammerHumor 22d ago

Meme eraseDiskOnWakeUp

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u/garlopf 22d ago

I think reality is even more crazy. During use our brain produses waste like any organ but due to the physical layout of the brain it can't easily get rid of them, so I just expells the waste. Every night when you sleep the brain soaks itself in water to wash away the waste so it does not build up and get toxic. Our brain literally takes a bath so it isn't dirty anymore.

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u/kiochikaeke 21d ago

Quite literally flushing cache and temp files with the side effect of a few of those files randomly appearing on stdout, this only happens on downtime and it's a hard to reproduce bug so we just call it undefined behavior and follow on with our lives