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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
Simon:
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--- Quote from: james_s on June 12, 2020, 03:42:41 am ---That's my biggest issue with this, it never ends.
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The way I look at this is that culture needs maintenance much like a house. It is a never-ending cost but that doesn't mean that neglecting it will lead to good outcomes.
I've worked on products that used master/slave terminology. I'm bothered that those products have been sold in places where those terms have strong connotations like southern USA. I don't like the idea of (say) a black person in Georgia having to talk about "masters" and "slaves" in project management meetings with their white bosses. That just seems gratuitously unpleasant. That image in my mind is why I won't choose the terms master/slave when building things in the future.
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What's your problem, he is a free man! If we still had legal slavery then that would be a problem. Slavery was legally abolished before the words were appropriately used to describe comms and control systems.
wraper:
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 12, 2020, 09:14:47 am ---
--- Quote from: wraper on June 12, 2020, 09:10:17 am ---
--- Quote from: trash on June 11, 2020, 10:33:27 am ---And what am I supposed to do with my male and female connectors?
I'm going to have to start using gender neutral or trans DB9 connectors?
Normally I would suggest that somebody says these things as a great prank joke.
But unfortunately there are people out there who take the idea seriously.
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Call them Partner A and Partner B.
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That's already screwed :-DD
So is that a USB AA or AB or BA or mini-AB?
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Damn, USB micro AB was already taken!
Berni:
At least back then the USB consortium was at least half good at naming things.
Now we have "Superspeed USB 3.2 Gen 2x2" :scared:
coppice:
--- Quote from: Berni on June 12, 2020, 09:27:10 am ---At least back then the USB consortium was at least half good at naming things.
Now we have "Superspeed USB 3.2 Gen 2x2" :scared:
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That's not a proper modern name. It doesn't have "turbo" in it.
wraper:
--- Quote from: coppice on June 12, 2020, 09:31:18 am ---
--- Quote from: Berni on June 12, 2020, 09:27:10 am ---At least back then the USB consortium was at least half good at naming things.
Now we have "Superspeed USB 3.2 Gen 2x2" :scared:
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That's not a proper modern name. It doesn't have "turbo" in it.
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Nope, that's obsolete for a long time. Like Turbo pascal or Turbo button in 386 PC.
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