Many Linux developers and sysadmins don't know this, but a secret code can unlock your cloud server resources and boost server performance by 5x. All you have to do is type the following as root user:

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@nixCraft
I know better than to try this.
I know it is called a fork bomb.

What I have never seen is a character by character explanation of the syntax and how it combines to produce that result so that a person could learn something more than just, "Don't copy random stuff off the Internet!"