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<int-e> learn Cattitude is a combination of pride, entitlement, indifference, and cruelty that humans can never hope to achieve.
author | HackEso <hackeso@esolangs.org> |
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date | Fri, 21 Aug 2020 08:59:06 +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.