Heinlein and requirements (was Re: how to clone apt repository to newest only?)

From	The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm>
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Subject	Heinlein and requirements (was Re: how to clone apt repository to newest only?)
Date	2023-12-26 23:50 +0100
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On 2023-12-26 at 17:33, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 04:49:13PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:

>> -- 
>> Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
>> ablest -- form of life in this section of space,  a critter that can
>> be killed but can't be tamed.  --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
>> -
> 
> Sounds like a project manager imposing random requirements :)

You want to talk about random (or not so much) requirements found in
Heinlein?

>>> A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an
>>> invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a
>>> sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the
>>> dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve
>>> equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a
>>> computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
>>> Specialization is for insects.

I can probably do... somewhere in the range from four to ten of those,
depending on one's definitions.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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Re: how to clone apt repository to newest only? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2023-12-25 15:10 +0100
  Re: how to clone apt repository to newest only? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-12-26 15:10 +0100
  Re: how to clone apt repository to newest only? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2023-12-26 15:20 +0100
  Re: how to clone apt repository to newest only? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2023-12-26 15:40 +0100
    Re: how to clone apt repository to newest only? "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2023-12-26 22:40 +0100
      Re: how to clone apt repository to newest only? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-12-26 23:00 +0100
      Re: how to clone apt repository to newest only? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2023-12-26 23:40 +0100
        Heinlein and requirements (was Re: how to clone apt repository to  newest only?) The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2023-12-26 23:50 +0100

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