Meaning of klugeyness | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“In case no one's haven't noticed, there is already a 'standard' link level protocol. Sure there are lots of others - so how in hell did the STUPID and INCONSISTENT "UI" handling manage to get in to pervert this otherwise pristine standard? Has anyone ever tried to reconcile the imbecilic way UI frames are supposed to be handled in L2V2 with the rest of the document? Kind of makes one wonder how standards get formulated. This case is a perfect example of the "klugeyness" inherent in the datagramme approach.”

“Someone recently asked "Why not just use six little wire jumpers in place of the 2x6 HDR1 + klugey SKT1 described in the manual?" We probably didn't explain it well enough yet, but there are several great reasons for using the HDR1 concept. And again, klugeyness is in the eye of the beholder. […] As to "klugeyness", we could've provided 6 extra shunts for users to place on HDR1, like we did for HDR2 and HDR3. But in the event that the user wanted to use an external programmer, or to program an external PIC, he'd need to find such a connector as SKT1.”

“Ah! I now make the 'design inference' and conclude that Ford's purpose with these questions is to point out that 'klugeyness' doesn't always indicate the lack of intelligent design.”

“The biological aspects of technology—its klugeyness, its growth and change due to evolutionary tinkering, its many miscellaneous details—are extensive.”

“Any chance you are running on Windows? The Tcl console on windows is slightly klugey (due to windows inherent klugeyness) compared to having a Unix machine with a real stdout channel.”

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