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ninjinuity

ninjinuity
 n.Gloss: A high level of ingenuity. «Over the next few days, we try pinning packages back to the Hardy version and downgrading. There are conflicts all over and lots of ninjinuity is required. Sometimes the system won’t boot properly, claiming kernel module problems, which turns out to be because somewhere in this process my initramfs got misconfigured. But eventually, everything is put back in working order (except, for some strange reason, gnuplot, which refuses to install the main binary file. I compile it from source.)» —“What Happened to my Laptop” by Randall Monroe XKCD Apr. 3, 2009. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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