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<oerjan> learn The porthellingularity will happen when boily starts making a porthello and cannot stop braiding in more and more words.
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date Mon, 25 Dec 2017 18:53:10 +0000
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Block devices are a concession made in Unix to make raw hard disks and magnetic tape have a similar interface to regular files and terminals. Since magnetic tapes can't write individual bytes, only entire blocks, the interface isn't exactly the same, thus the dreaded dd obs= option was born.