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Garbage Collection Failed Successfully (media.piefed.zip)
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[โ€“] AcesFullOfKings@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

why is that programmer humour?

[โ€“] trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's a really loose reference, but lots of programming languages are "garbage-collected": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_science)