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<b_jonas> slashlearn block device/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.
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293) <elliott> Deewiant: ha, you were wrong, I have stacks, fungespace and MULTIPLE functions! <elliott> and a monad! <elliott> nothing can stop me now!
478) <Phantom_Hoover> oerjan, little do you realise that everything you say and do is part of that great monad tutorial we call life.
649) <Gregor> Phantom_Hoover: Sort of a monadic human centipede.
650) <elliott> When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a monad.
663) <Gregor> You know how the arrow pierces your skin, rearranging and randomizing vital internal structure?  <Gregor> Monads are like that, only worse.