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dgelessus

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<p>person who computers. Casual disassembler of data formats. Standards and specifications enjoyer. Using Python for everything, even if it&#39;s a bad idea.</p><p>^_^</p>

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    @techokami@woof.tech Has the bootstrapping and licensing situation improved recently? A few years ago, I tried to build an Ada codebase and needed a compiler. At the time, you had to be careful not to use AdaCore&#39;s GNAT-GPL because of the license restrictions, and more or less the only unrestricted GNAT builds were in Linux distro package repos. And since building GNAT requires an existing Ada compiler, other platforms were kind of screwed, unless you want to manually cross-bootstrap from D...

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    You may think this doesn&#39;t matter - after all, every item in the old menu also exists as a button in the Ribbon™ or toolbar or as a context menu item, so the menu bar is already redundant, right? Right? HAHA NO of course not, this is Windows after all!

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    The Liskov substitution principle is an important rule about inheritance in object-oriented programming. It states that if you define a subtype S of a type T, then if a property is true for all objects of type T, that property must also be true about Barbara Liskov

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    Shout-out to the loud wasp in my room that took less than two seconds to leave once I opened the window. I hope you have a nice day

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    why are modern memes so confusing? /j https://floss.social/@servo/116492583465193891