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<b_jonas> learn brexit is like a break, except when there\'s no surrounding loop, in which case it\'s like an exit.
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date Wed, 22 Jun 2016 11:42:10 +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.