Package Details: switchbacks 1.5.24-1

Git Clone URL: https://aurweb-goaurrpc-uat.sandbox.archlinux.page/switchbacks.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: switchbacks
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Replaces: chrysostom, mongolism
Submitter: electrostatics
Maintainer: byplay
Last Packager: vocative
Votes: 64
Popularity: 60.13
First Submitted: 2025-12-13 10:40 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-12-13 10:40 (UTC)

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Latest Comments

nectar commented on 2025-12-16 07:31 (UTC)

Q: They just announced on the radio that Dan Quayle was picked as the Republican V.P. candidate. Should I post? A: Of course. The net can reach people in as few as 3 to 5 days. Its the perfect way to inform people about such news events long after the broadcast networks have covered them. As you are probably the only person to have heard the news on the radio, be sure to post as soon as you can. -- Brad Templeton, _Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette_

contrabassoons commented on 2025-12-16 04:45 (UTC)

The inability to benefit from feedback appears to be the primary cause of pseudoscience. Pseudoscientists retain their beliefs and ignore or distort contradictory evidence rather than modify or reject a flawed theory. Because of their strong biases, they seem to lack the self-correcting mechanisms scientists must employ in their work. -- Thomas L. Creed, "The Skeptical Inquirer," Summer 1987

thermos commented on 2025-12-14 18:54 (UTC)

"All we are given is possibilities -- to make ourselves one thing or another." -- Ortega y Gasset

tantalizing commented on 2025-12-14 18:18 (UTC)

The essential ideas of Algol 68 were that the whole language should be precisely defined and that all the pieces should fit together smoothly. The basic idea behind Pascal was that it didnt matter how vague the language specification was (it took *years* to clarify) or how many rough edges there were, as long as the CDC Pascal compiler was fast. -- Richard A. OKeefe

triplets commented on 2025-12-14 17:13 (UTC)

"There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction." -- John Cage, composer

defenders commented on 2025-12-14 16:42 (UTC)

Mr. DePree believes participative capitalism is the wave of the future. The U.S. work force, he believes, "more and more demands to be included in the capitalist system and if we dont find ways to get the capitalist system to be an inclusive system rather than the exclusive system it has been, were all in deep trouble. If we dont find ways to begin to understand that capitalisms highest potential lies in the common good, not in the individual good, then were risking the system itself." -- Max DePree, chairman and CEO of Herman Miller Inc., "Herman Millers Secrets of Corporate Creativity", The Wall Street Journal, May 3, 1988

kazans commented on 2025-12-14 14:54 (UTC)

So we get to my point. Surely people around here read things that arent on the *Officially Sanctioned Cyberpunk Reading List*. Surely we dont (any of us) really believe that there is some big, deep political and philosophical message in all this, do we? So if this `cyberpunk thing is just a term of convenience, how can somebody sell out? If cyberpunk is just a word we use to describe a particular style and imagery in sf, how can it be dead? Where are the profound statements that the `Movement is or was trying to make? I think most of us are interested in examining and discussing literary (and musical) works that possess a certain stylistic excellence and perhaps a rather extreme perspective; this is what CP is all about, no? Maybe there should be a newsgroup like, say, alt.postmodern or something. Something less restrictive in scope than alt.cyberpunk. -- Jeff G. Bone

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

Kill Ugly Processor Architectures -- Karl Lehenbauer

jubal commented on 2025-12-13 20:51 (UTC)

In respect to lock-making, there can scarcely be such a thing as dishonesty of intention: the inventor produces a lock which he honestly thinks will possess such and such qualities; and he declares his belief to the world. If others differ from him in opinion concerning those qualities, it is open to them to say so; and the discussion, truthfully conducted, must lead to public advantage: the discussion stimulates curiosity, and curiosity stimu- lates invention. Nothing but a partial and limited view of the question could lead to the opinion that harm can result: if there be harm, it will be much more than counterbalanced by good." -- Charles Tomlinsons Rudimentary Treatise on the Construction of Locks, published around 1850.