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<oerjan> addquote <int-e> @tell boily arguably, PHP started out as esoteric, then it became mainstream, and then it became a programming language
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date Sat, 13 Jan 2018 00:24:49 +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.