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<b_jonas> slashlearn password//The password of the month is If the door to Ambrosia will not open by this music, I will TEAR IT DOWN!
author | HackEso <hackeso@esolangs.org> |
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date | Wed, 03 May 2023 20:48:13 +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.