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Re:Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very ... by brobinson on Friday April 22, 2022 @12:55PM (#31124332)
Genuinely curious: what do you do internally for "male" and "female" connectors?
Re:Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very ... by mgraczyk on Friday April 22, 2022 @12:56PM (#31124362)
That one is in the public list.

https://developers.google.com/style/word-list

You're supposed to use "plug" and "socket" instead.

Re:Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very ... by MatteoFrigo on Friday April 22, 2022 @01:39PM (#31125170)
To be fair, the male/female nomenclature for connectors has been a mess for decades.

One old convention, mostly originating with radio-frequency connectors, is that the gender of the connector is the gender of its innermost contact. Thus, the plug of the common 2.5" and 2.1" connector of power supplies is technically female because the inner contact is a hole. The socket on the appliance has a pin in the middle and is technically male. When you try to buy one, half the time the part is labelled as male and the other half it is labelled as female.

But there is no problem bad enough that cannot be made worse by government. Years ago some US regulator didn't like the fact that people were plugging big radio antennas into wifi equipment, so they invented the "reverse-polarity" connector. What used to be a "SMA male" connector with a pin in the middle now is a "RP SMA male" connector with a hole in the middle. Here is a random link with a picture: http://cablesondemandblog.com/wordpress1/2014/05/05/reverse_... If you order this kind of connectors, now you have a 25% chance of getting what you need. One RP SMA male and a SMA female will mate together but not propagate any signals.

Re:Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very ... by kyleblarson on Friday April 22, 2022 @01:04PM (#31124503)
That google is at a point where they can pay employees to waste time on crap like this and yet still print money is incredible.
Re:Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very ... by stefan_ on Friday April 22, 2022 @04:49PM (#31127895)
Haha jesus no wonder they added the "AI-powered" hints because who the fuck can be expected to keep track of all this nonsense?

> hang, hung

> Don't use to refer to a computer or system that is not responding [..] see Avoid unnecessarily violent language.

Re:Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very ... by marton78 on Friday April 22, 2022 @05:27PM (#31128388)
Oh, that's due to violence? I thought because it evokes phallic associations, as when someone is well hung.
Re:Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very ... by redisman on Friday April 22, 2022 @09:55PM (#31130645)
I’m sorry Dave. I’m afraid I cant let you type “hanging dong”
Re:Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very ... by raffraffraff on Saturday April 23, 2022 @07:10AM (#31133226)
Well now it does. Thanks for nothing Marton.
Re:Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very ... by londons_explore on Friday April 22, 2022 @01:00PM (#31124437)
plug, socket
Re:Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very ... by formerly_proven on Friday April 22, 2022 @02:09PM (#31125712)
... tells you where it is (cable-mounted or panel-mounted/fixed), not the gender.

                     plug     socket
    male             exists   exists
    female           exists   exists
    hermaphroditic   exists   exists
    changeable       exists   exists
Re:Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very ... by PeterisP on Friday April 22, 2022 @07:22PM (#31129483)