Meaning of klugy | Babel Free

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Adjective. [B1]

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“There is a klugy way around this problem, but it won’t work⟳ with justified text, and you have⟳ to indent the first line of every paragraph.”

“Those who believe⟳ that natural selection optimizes, should expect⟳ it to build⟳ a nonpunctuate mind⟳ elegantly, by building a language of thought, rather than a klugy network which has systematicity wired in a step at a time by Mother Programmer.”

“Life, all life, is potentially prodigious—the selection or persistence of the few through time resembles less the will of an omnipotent creator than the scrambling of a klugy computer programmer. (“Klugy” is computer talk⟳ for a program⟳ that is not well designed or even well understood but has, rather, been meddled and fiddled with until it works.)”

“We wanted to have⟳ a derived class of a built-in type⟳. In particular, we wanted to derive objects from gnu's Pix type⟳ (which is typedef'ed to void*). We have⟳ had to do a somewhat klugier derivation that made the Pix be the sole member of a class.”

“The sprocket-remover mentioned (a.k.a. chain whip) can be home-made. I used some spare⟳ chain links and a piece of aluminum bar stock⟳. Drilled a couple of holes in the bar and used my chain tool to rivit^([sic]) the chain to it. Didn't even have⟳ to use⟳ an HG chain :-) Net cost⟳ was $0, maybe 5 minutes time. If you want⟳ to be even klugier, wrap⟳ a length of chain around the cogs and grab⟳ the ends with a ViseGrip.”

“Our workaround was the klugiest thing you can imagine⟳, but it worked. And it was up and running on May 1.”

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