Package Details: snicker 7.16-2

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Package Base: snicker
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Provides: colliders, gcc
Submitter: invocations
Maintainer: elector
Last Packager: reconciliation
Votes: 26
Popularity: 24.93
First Submitted: 2025-12-13 10:40 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-12-13 10:40 (UTC)

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Latest Comments

pettier commented on 2025-12-14 23:03 (UTC)

"Regardless of the legal speed limit, your Buick must be operated at speeds faster than 85 MPH (140kph)." -- 1987 Buick Grand National owners manual.

equably commented on 2025-12-14 15:59 (UTC)

I think for the most part that the readership here uses the c-word in a similar fashion. I dont think anybody really believes in a new, revolution- ary literature --- I think they use `cyberpunk as a term of convenience to discuss the common stylistic elements in a small subset of recent sf books. -- Jeff G. Bone

weeping commented on 2025-12-14 14:41 (UTC)

The Seventh Edition licensing procedures are, I suppose, still in effect, though I doubt that tapes are available from AT&T. At any rate, whatever restrictions the license imposes still exist. These restrictions were and are reasonable for places that just want to run the system, but dont allow many of the things that Minix was written for, like study of the source in classes, or by individuals not in a university or company. Ive always thought that Minix was a fine idea, and competently done. As for the size of v7, wc -l /usr/sys/*/*.[chs] is 19271. -- Dennis Ritchie, 1989

ticking commented on 2025-12-14 09:36 (UTC)

"I dislike companies that have a we-are-the-high-priests-of-hardware-so-youll- like-what-we-give-you attitude. I like commodity markets in which iron-and- silicon hawkers know that they exist to provide fast toys for software types like me to play with..." -- Eric S. Raymond

engraves commented on 2025-12-13 20:55 (UTC)

Software entities are more complex for their size than perhaps any other human construct because no two parts are alike. If they are, we make the two similar parts into a subroutine -- open or closed. In this respect, software systems differ profoundly from computers, buildings, or automobiles, where repeated elements abound. -- Fred Brooks, Jr.

ballisticss commented on 2025-12-13 18:16 (UTC)

All extremists should be taken out and shot.

slider commented on 2025-12-13 16:36 (UTC)

It might be worth reflecting that this group was originally created back in September of 1987 and has exchanged over 1200 messages. The original announcement for the group called for an all inclusive discussion ranging from the writings of Gibson and Vinge and movies like Bladerunner to real world things like Brands description of the work being done at the MIT Media Lab. It was meant as a haven for people with vision of this scope. If you want to create a haven for people with narrower visions, feel free. But I feel sad for anyone who thinks that alt.cyberpunk is such a monstrous group that it is in dire need of being subdivided. Heaven help them if they ever start reading comp.arch or rec.arts.sf-lovers. -- Bob Webber