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That seems like a weird mnemonic—in that case the bulk of the pipe is obstructing, not permitting, the flow of data.

• rcfox 7y ago
  That's what a pipe does though. If liquid had its way, it would fall straight down. Pipes force it in another direction.
• em-bee 7y ago
  well, i wasn't actually looking at it as a pipe but a filter, which is how some programs process the data coming through (grep for example)