Justice department removes disability guidelines for US businesses;
Multiple pages scrubbed from the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) website due to a Trump order
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/justice-department-disability-business-guidelines
#a11y #politics #UnitedStates #ADA #news #accessibility
AdaBots: teach Ada programming to children in a minecraft style world.
Ada & Zangemann - Un cuento sobre Software, Monopatines y Helado de Frambuesa
https://media.fsfe.org/videos/watch/a891acd6-6464-4d13-90f7-e26cce97bcd4
This question reads like trolling but you'll see the #Ada community is earnest in educating newcomers.
I understand Ada is a really old language, but it sucks that we have to have header files seperate from the actual definition. It feels like extra wasted work. It would be nice if you didn’t have to have seperate .ads and .adb files, consider Rust and other modern low level system programming languages don’t need header files.
re: https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/why-does-ada-gnat-require-a-ads-file/1859
Donald Trump announced the names of five digital assets he expects to include in a new U.S. #crypto #strategic #reserve on Sunday, spiking the market value of each.
Trump said on social media that his January executive order on digital assets would create a stockpile of currencies including
#bitcoin , #ether , #XRP , #SOL and #ADA .
The names had not previously been announced.
The assets rose 8% to 62% in trading on Sunday.
Accommodations designed for people with #disabilities often benefit everyone. Examples include captioning, visual instructions, and remote work options, according to a professor of disability studies: https://buff.ly/3CVmteh
Lauren Shallish, Rutgers - Newark #ADA #DEI #workplace #universaldesign
In #Utah, residents who receive fluoridated water…experience tooth decay at rates 25-50% lower than other residents, acc/to the Utah Dental Assn. The group blasted the bill, urging residents to call Cox’s office to demand a veto.
…The group’s national counterpart, the #ADA, sent a letter to Cox on Tues to similarly urge a veto.
Today I saw someone call Ada "Boomer Rust".
How does Ada's memory safety compare against Rust?
https://ajxs.me/blog/How_Does_Adas_Memory_Safety_Compare_Against_Rust.html
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://ajxs.me/blog/How_Does_Adas_Memory_Safety_Compare_Against_Rust.html
The state of Rust trying to catch up with Ada. By Oli Scherer | FOSDEM 2025 https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5356-the-state-of-rust-trying-to-catch-up-with-ada/
«Ada has held its own in the safety critical space for just over 4 decades. Over the last 10 years Rust has pushed into the same space with varying success. […] In this talk I will go into the various features that make Ada so useful for ensuring the absence of bugs, and where Rust stands on each of these features».
Via Hacker News.
How does Ada's memory safety compare against Rust?
https://ajxs.me/blog/How_Does_Adas_Memory_Safety_Compare_Against_Rust.html
#ycombinator #ajxs #synthesisers #programming #Ada #Programming