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<kspalaiologos> ` cat > ../wisdom/kspalaiologos <<<"kspalaiologos is a brainfuck addict and a late night Perl hacker. He\'s secretly disassembling brainfuck code for a casino that lost the source code. Apparently knows the secret of Malbolge."
author | HackEso <hackeso@esolangs.org> |
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date | Sat, 18 Jan 2020 19:01:43 +0000 |
parents | 272663b31668 |
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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.