I don't know about that. Non-binary files have been put into bin directories for decades at this point. (Feel free to marvel at the analogy.)
Delete the contents and it's not just binaries going to the bit-bucket.
The joke here is more "Tony Lazuto said to execute these files."
If you think about it, all files are binary, some just happen to be human-readable.
Yup Just delete all binary data from your disks, including the bios and get a quantum computer that you somehow program and control by hand.
NixOS has two main selling points:
The joke is about the bin/ directory on Linux, which contains the binaries of the system (also called executables) which can break the system if you delete it, and also refer to the paper bin where all your trash files go and people tend to delete usually.
Could also be referring to something like ~/.local/bin, where you remove unnecessary user-only programs vs. /use/bin where you remove system essential ones.
Surely it should be "cleaned the bin", right? Dialect issues complicate things but the basic problem seems to be that the joke is just ungrammatical.
Clearing build files of your hobby project when you
rm -rf /bin
instead of
rm -rf bin/