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bezier curves
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coconut cake
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reverse shell code
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liberal autocracy
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stock exchange
Quine (computing)
A quine is a special kind of computer program. It takes no input and produces a copy of its own source code as its only output. It's like a puzzle for computer programmers: create a program that is a copy of itself!
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