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<b_jonas> learn The password of the month is making the garbage collector hard to implement with its unpredictable lifetime.
author HackEso <hackeso@esolangs.org>
date Mon, 01 Jul 2024 19:57:00 +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.