[cmclaughlin]

Here's how my wife does it...

"Do you want to take out the trash?"

My engineer mind interprets it literally every time :)

Usually I don't mind taking out the trash... but occasionally I don't really want to. I have to always translate this to "She wants me to take out the trash".

[ndespres]

What she truly wants is for you to notice that it’s full and to take it out without being asked.

[jancsika]

Upshot: you are supposed to take out the trash using a realtime scheduler, and the common question means you have missed many deadlines!

It's as if you are forcing your spouse to somehow smell a janky web page.

[Paul-Craft]

Of course, you only got into the situation where you're supposed to take out the trash with some fancy realtime scheduler because the impulse to spend 6 hours automating a 15 second task was too strong to resist....

[gnicholas]

Weird, people usually talk favorably about garbage collection on HN.

[vacuity]

As a member of the Rust Evangelism Strike Force, please point me to these people so we can have a, ahem, civil conversation.

/garfield

[chrsig]

Well, it's usually something the environment does for us, not that we do for the environment :)

[amatecha]

Yeah, sometimes I respond to those like "well, no, I don't want to, but I will if you'd like". haha :)

[docandrew]

There’s a funny comedy bit about the passive-aggressive phrasing “we need to <take out the trash, clean up the yard, etc>”. “Is that a _he_ need, or a _she_ need?” Who’s we in this scenario?

[User23]

“No.”

[quickthrower2]

Is the answer from those not yet brainwashed. Aka kids!

[quickthrower2]

Or. “It’s OK i’ll take out the trash”

[yCombLinks]

That makes me so mad! Just put down a checklist and I'll gladly do it! Not sure why emotional manipulation needs to happen!