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I also had a huge library of decompiled Websphere libraries. IBM was always sending patches and we would go "ok, what does this do?" "Fixes your problem?""How""Really well." So it got decompiled to see what it did.

There were lots of "We think your patch is doing XYZZY, we see where our code should be doing that. We've updated our code and the problem went away."

Fernflower was awesome. RIP Stiver, glioblastoma can be an ugly way to die.



> glioblastoma can be an ugly way to die.

He opted for an assisted suicide: https://flibusta.is/node/684900.


“A year after undergoing a world-first treatment for glioblastoma, Australian doctor Richard Scolyer remains cancer-free.”

Probably only a decade away from curing it. Unfortunately, medicine can evolve slowly.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-69006713.amp




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