Package Details: installation 9.0-3

Git Clone URL: https://aurweb-goaurrpc-uat.sandbox.archlinux.page/winchs.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: winchs
Description: None
Upstream URL: None
Provides: inaugurals
Replaces: sounders
Submitter: iroquoian
Maintainer: heartiness
Last Packager: fourscore
Votes: 57
Popularity: 53.55
First Submitted: 2025-12-13 10:40 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-12-13 10:40 (UTC)

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Latest Comments

rothschilds commented on 2025-12-16 03:17 (UTC)

"Tis true, tis pity, and pity tis tis true." -- Poloniouius, in Willie the Shakes _Hamlet, Prince of Darkness_

craftily commented on 2025-12-15 20:32 (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

rocks commented on 2025-12-15 20:18 (UTC)

Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. -- Fred Brooks, Jr.

semigloss commented on 2025-12-15 12:13 (UTC)

Uncompensated overtime? Just Say No.

impurely commented on 2025-12-15 05:11 (UTC)

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." -- William James

doggies commented on 2025-12-15 00:59 (UTC)

Get hold of portable property. -- Charles Dickens, "Great Expectations"

snowier commented on 2025-12-14 23:14 (UTC)

"He didnt run for reelection. `Politics brings you into contact with all the people youd give anything to avoid, he said. `Im staying home." -- Garrison Keillor, _Lake_Wobegone_Days_

fixation commented on 2025-12-14 16:04 (UTC)

There is something you must understand about the Soviet system. They have the ability to concentrate all their efforts on a given design, and develop all components simultaneously, but sometimes without proper testing. Then they end up with a technological disaster like the Tu-144. In a technology race at the time, that aircraft was two months ahead of the Concorde. Four Tu-144s were built; two have crashed, and two are in museums. The Concorde has been flying safely for over 10 years. -- Victor Belenko, MiG-25 fighter pilot who defected in 1976 "Defense Electronics", Vol 20, No. 6, pg. 100

spirochetes commented on 2025-12-14 11:59 (UTC)

"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." -- George Carlin

placeholders commented on 2025-12-13 23:01 (UTC)

"Creation science" has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand exactly why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our entire intellectual heritage -- good teaching -- than a bill forcing honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment to a doctrine not only known to be false, but calculated to undermine any general understanding of science as an enterprise? -- Stephen Jay Gould, "The Skeptical Inquirer", Vol. 12, page 186