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<oerjan> learn Svalbard is the place where Norway keeps the Global Seed Vault, so that the world\'s PRNGs can be reseeded in case of a civilization-threatening disaster.
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date Tue, 13 Dec 2016 00:59:32 +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.