This is not dumb.
From the same article, "On a more extreme end, if someone intends to be racist, sexist, or exclusionary in their writing, and wants to draft that up in a Google document, they should be allowed to do that without an algorithm attempting to sanitize their intentions and confuse their readers."
This is dumb.
"Cutting phrases like “whitelist/blacklist” and “master/slave” out of our vocabulary not only addresses years of habitual bias in tech terminology, but forces us as writers and researchers to be more creative with the way we describe things."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7dk8m/googles-ai-powered-inclusive-warnings-feature-is-very-broken
@2ck It would look cool?
This shift indicator is advertised as having a "RISC processor for extreme precision and easy user interface"
@khird that might be more practical. Its hard to physically measure over oceans before satellites
Fun fact: the US Constitution is dated "year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth"
There was some effort to start dating things with year 0 being 1776 and this line is almost always left off of transcripts of the Constitution.
@Co It was for me
@shibao check out the goliad flag
Part of why I'm glad I'm in Texas
@shibao You don't have to brag
@straw quite a few UPSs have hard coded root passwords
@shibao Im supposed to get a bonus in June so if I do it will be then
Amateur Boolit Farmer,
Memesmith,
Pro-Privateering