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<b_jonas> slashlearn password//The password of the month contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.
author HackEso <hackeso@esolangs.org>
date Tue, 07 Nov 2023 13:12:53 +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.