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<fizzie> ` sed -i -e "s|$| , fizzie\'s font https://github.com/fis/rfk86/tree/master/web/font|" wisdom/font
author | HackBot |
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date | Tue, 12 Dec 2017 18:59:45 +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.