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<oerjan> learn \xc3\x96rjan is oerjan\'s Nazi clone. He helps run the secret base on the backside of the moon.
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date Sat, 08 Oct 2016 23:22:19 +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.