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| nfmax:
--- Quote from: hans on June 11, 2020, 09:01:35 am --- --- Quote from: Berni on June 11, 2020, 08:11:16 am ---This is just ridiculous. But then again it was even controversial that Linux uses the number 0xB16B00B5 as the host id in HyperV. Whats wrong with it? Well it looks like big boobs... :palm: Its not like you even get to see this number anywhere. You only see it in the form of a #define in the source code. Why would you even care? --- End quote --- Well we must also start banning all Java applications, as Java .class files uses 0xCAFEBABE as header magic number. Alternate proposal: we just document the magic number as uint32_t 3199925962, then nobody can be offended, as it's the same bits but a different interpretation. --- End quote --- Or back to octal - nothing contentious about 031277535276 |
| bd139:
--- Quote from: julianhigginson on June 11, 2020, 08:56:49 am --- --- Quote from: bd139 on June 11, 2020, 08:47:35 am ---Politicising language idioms is how we end up with burned books. --- End quote --- No... I'm pretty sure that fascism is how we end up with burned books........ --- End quote --- Fascism starts with ideological dishonesty, manipulation and how do we do that? Language. Be careful. Somewhere in the middle is good. A radical shift to either side is bad. |
| John B:
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 11, 2020, 09:06:58 am --- Somewhere in the middle is good. A radical shift to either side is bad. --- End quote --- Is the middle ground sound advice? One camp is flexible and accommodating, another is extreme and authoritarian. Take the "middle ground" through multiple iterations and you have drifted to one side. |
| bd139:
Actually you're wrong. Both extremes are very authoritarian. Both are detrimental to everyone but in different ways. The biggest mistake politics ever made was allowing it to divide into two extreme ideological camps and promoting those as the only answer. It's divisive and idiotic. The answer is scrapping both wings and taking ideas on individual merit, not ideological association. This is basically censorship if we like it or not regardless of which wing it comes from. All that does is remove voices, burn books, rewrite history and silence the language used to criticise at the end of the day, ushering in a golden new age of tyranny. |
| cgroen:
O my god (one out of 6000 different, do your own pick), personally, my compiler and soldering iron are my gods..... At first I thought you were making a joke |O Why oh why bother with idiotic stuff like this, its been master/slave for obvious reasons, if someone gets this wrong, its their own mind that is wrong in the first place ("for the pure, everything is pure"). STOP BEING OFFENDED AT ANY POSSIBLE CHANCE And no, "primary" and "secondary" has nothing similar to "Master" and "Slave", the "Master" is, hmmm, "The Master" and the slave obeys. What about "Female" and "Male" adapters, maybe the "Female adapter" don't think of itself as "female" but one of the other 68 different types that exists..... EDIT: Here is some more to be offended about: 0xDEADBABE 0xDEADFEED 0xBABEFEED 0xC0DEFEED 0xC0DEBABE Go ahead Geez, enough of this craziness |O |O |O |O |
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