Package Details: damns 4.11-8

Git Clone URL: https://aurweb-sql-alchemy-2-x.sandbox.archlinux.page/lexicographical.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: lexicographical
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Conflicts: euphemisms, forsooth
Submitter: karen
Maintainer: glimmered
Last Packager: humorousness
Votes: 72
Popularity: 0.000000
First Submitted: 2026-05-19 10:20 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-05-19 10:20 (UTC)

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Latest Comments

giauques commented on 2026-05-22 03:25 (UTC)

"Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about." -- B. L. Whorf

slipshod commented on 2026-05-22 01:29 (UTC)

...At that time [the 1960s], Bell Laboratories scientists projected that computer speeds as high as 30 million floating-point calculations per second (megaflops) would be needed for the Armys ballistic missile defense system. Many computer experts -- including a National Academy of Sciences panel -- said achieving such speeds, even using multiple processors, was impossible. Today, new generation supercomputers operate at billions of operations per second (gigaflops). -- Aviation Week & Space Technology, May 9, 1988, "Washington Roundup", pg 13

valetudinarianism commented on 2026-05-22 00:13 (UTC)

"Bite off, dirtball." Richard Sexton, richard@gryphon.COM

vouch commented on 2026-05-21 16:15 (UTC)

On our campus the UNIX system has proved to be not only an effective software tool, but an agent of technical and social change within the University. -- John Lions (University of New South Wales)

kilopascal commented on 2026-05-21 03:16 (UTC)

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. -- Isaac Asimov

saintlinesss commented on 2026-05-21 01:56 (UTC)

When it is incorrect, it is, at least *authoritatively* incorrect. -- Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy

grocery commented on 2026-05-20 14:50 (UTC)

"Trust me. I know what Im doing." -- Sledge Hammer

ordinals commented on 2026-05-20 04:40 (UTC)

"Pseudocode can be used to some extent to aid the maintenance process. However, pseudocode that is highly detailed - approaching the level of detail of the code itself - is not of much use as maintenance documentation. Such detailed documentation has to be maintained almost as much as the code, thus doubling the maintenance burden. Furthermore, since such voluminous pseudocode is too distracting to be kept in the listing itself, it must be kept in a separate folder. The result: Since pseudocode - unlike real code - doesnt have to be maintained, no one will maintain it. It will soon become out of date and everyone will ignore it. (Once, I did an informal survey of 42 shops that used pseudocode. Of those 42, 0 [zero!], found that it had any value as maintenance documentation." --Meilir Page-Jones, "The Practical Guide to Structured Design", Yourdon Press (c) 1988

divisible commented on 2026-05-19 22:10 (UTC)

"We live, in a very kooky time." -- Herb Blashtfalt

phantasmagorias commented on 2026-05-19 11:04 (UTC)

Inadmissible: Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of testimony which juries are supposed to be unfit to be entrusted with, and which judges, therefore, rule out, even of proceedings before themselves alone. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible because the person quoted was unsworn and is not before the court for examination; yet most momentous actions, military, political, commercial and of every other kind, are daily undertaken on hearsay evidence. There is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence. Revelation is hearsay evidence; that the Scriptures are the word of God we have only the testimony of men long dead whose identity is not clearly established and who are not known to have been sworn in any sense. Under the rules of evidence as they now exist in this country, no single assertion in the Bible has in its support any evidence admissible in a court of law... But as records of courts of justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women were convicted of witchcraft and executed was without a flaw; it is still unimpeachable. The judges decisions based on it were sound in logic and in law. Nothing in any existing court was ever more thoroughly proved than the charges of witchcraft and sorcery for which so many suffered death. If there were no witches, human testimony and human reason are alike destitute of value. --Ambrose Bierce