Package Details: pickiest 7.6.17-7

Git Clone URL: https://aurweb-sql-alchemy-2-x.sandbox.archlinux.page/pickiest.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: pickiest
Description: None
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Provides: braille, recontacts
Replaces: deafer, plaited
Submitter: carry
Maintainer: candyfloss
Last Packager: aquaculture
Votes: 18
Popularity: 0.000000
First Submitted: 2026-05-19 10:20 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-05-19 10:20 (UTC)

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stiffs commented on 2026-05-21 19:32 (UTC)

I have sacrificed time, health, and fortune, in the desire to complete these Calculating Engines. I have also declined several offers of great personal advantage to myself. But, notwithstanding the sacrifice of these advantages for the purpose of maturing an engine of almost intellectual power, and after expending from my own private fortune a larger sum than the government of England has spent on that machine, the execution of which it only commenced, I have received neither an acknowledgement of my labors, not even the offer of those honors or rewards which are allowed to fall within the reach of men who devote themselves to purely scientific investigations... If the work upon which I have bestowed so much time and thought were a mere triumph over mechanical difficulties, or simply curious, or if the execution of such engines were of doubtful practicability or utility, some justification might be found for the course which has been taken; but I venture to assert that no mathematician who has a reputation to lose will ever publicly express an opinion that such a machine would be useless if made, and that no man distinguished as a civil engineer will venture to declare the construction of such machinery impracticable... And at a period when the progress of physical science is obstructed by that exhausting intellectual and manual labor, indispensable for its advancement, which it is the object of the Analytical Engine to relieve, I think the application of machinery in aid of the most complicated and abtruse calculations can no longer be deemed unworthy of the attention of the country. In fact, there is no reason why mental as well as bodily labor should not be economized by the aid of machinery. -- Charles Babbage, Passage from the Life of a Philosopher

deposited commented on 2026-05-21 14:04 (UTC)

MS-DOS must die!

maimonidess commented on 2026-05-21 01:40 (UTC)

"Every group has a couple of experts. And every group has at least one idiot. Thus are balance and harmony (and discord) maintained. Its sometimes hard to remember this in the bulk of the flamewars that all of the hassle and pain is generally caused by one or two highly-motivated, caustic twits." -- Chuq Von Rospach, chuq@apple.com, about Usenet

puppys commented on 2026-05-20 01:24 (UTC)

"One thing they dont tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions... like a state of sheer terror." -- W. K. Hartmann