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| Simon:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000jx41 All these protests about history. Well for the idiots information the problem only ever got worse but they don't care about that they just want to run around pulling statues down and erasing history because that will make today's problems go away. |
| wraper:
--- Quote from: trash on June 11, 2020, 10:33:27 am ---And what am I supposed to do with my male and female connectors? I'm going to have to start using gender neutral or trans DB9 connectors? Normally I would suggest that somebody says these things as a great prank joke. But unfortunately there are people out there who take the idea seriously. --- End quote --- Call them Partner A and Partner B. |
| lukego:
--- Quote from: james_s on June 12, 2020, 03:42:41 am ---That's my biggest issue with this, it never ends. --- End quote --- The way I look at this is that culture needs maintenance much like a house. It is a never-ending cost but that doesn't mean that neglecting it will lead to good outcomes. I've worked on products that used master/slave terminology. I'm bothered that those products have been sold in places where those terms have strong connotations like southern USA. I don't like the idea of (say) a black person in Georgia having to talk about "masters" and "slaves" in project management meetings with their white bosses. That just seems gratuitously unpleasant. That image in my mind is why I won't choose the terms master/slave when building things in the future. |
| Simon:
Don't get me started. I am tired already of commercial contractors being called partners by the government in an attempt to disguise privatization. This is the problem. Common language is very fluid and terminology is constantly changed either for commercial reasons or to impress people. I am sick of the softy softy language that fails to just call things what they are and takes 3 times longer to to explain anything as people literal circle what they are trying to say slowly delivering it lest it be too shocking. I have seen even Dave in later videos go to lengths to clarify that he i not being critical. |
| bd139:
--- Quote from: wraper on June 12, 2020, 09:10:17 am --- --- Quote from: trash on June 11, 2020, 10:33:27 am ---And what am I supposed to do with my male and female connectors? I'm going to have to start using gender neutral or trans DB9 connectors? Normally I would suggest that somebody says these things as a great prank joke. But unfortunately there are people out there who take the idea seriously. --- End quote --- Call them Partner A and Partner B. --- End quote --- That's already screwed :-DD So is that a USB AA or AB or BA or mini-AB? |
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