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That would be totally illegal if Nintendo was making the laws, but yes, pretty much.

I'd say this doesn't bypass anything, it's just some kind of virtual device? I'm using it to read legally purchased books on unsupported hardware.

There's an open source Adobe ADEPT DRM implementation that works well on Linux: https://forge.soutade.fr/soutade/libgourou

You're right, and it's extremely hard to undo. Once you have that complexity, you'll always be taking away something from somebody by simplifying. So all simplifications end up as …

That's very cool, but that's taxes only. For social security, you have to get certified by a completely different set of bureaucrats with partially incompatible requirements: https…

Intellij Idea on Linux runs surprisingly well on 15 year old T400 Thinkpads. It's actually pleasant to use for small hobby Java projects.

The question was "what has reflection got to do with it". I've used reflection for dependency inversion, so I think that's what it's got to do with it. If you can do dependency inv…

I've seen people learning about dependency inversion from a book called "Clean Architecture", then proceeding to apply it to every bit of code they write, to make it "clean". It ma…

It's called the "dependency inversion principle". People don't like to call it "reflection", and heap various layers like XML or dependency injection annotions on it, but technical…

Reflection allows you to put the interfaces to Account and Customer into a shared module and the business logic implementations into their own mutually independent modules, thus re…

This kind of software chooses you :-) Actually, it's quite rewarding once you get into it. Serious business, people depend on you getting it right, but still nobody dies if a bug s…

https://www.bmf-steuerrechner.de/interface/pseudocode.jsp There's a pdf version as well: http://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Web/DE/Themen/Steuern/... The problem is in computing…