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<b_jonas> ` learn \'The password of the month is Cthulhuquagdonic Mothraquagdonic Narwhalicorn.\' # https://logs.esolangs.org/libera-esolangs/2024-04.html#lKE Infinite craft
author | HackEso <hackeso@esolangs.org> |
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date | Wed, 01 May 2024 06:39:10 +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.