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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
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tggzzz:

--- Quote from: Fred Basset on July 09, 2020, 08:10:30 am ---My Dad had a pair of them for applying stretchy sleeves with letters and numbers on them over wires to identify the cable they would become when the connector was fitted.  Always wondered what they were called.  Thank you for solving that litle mini-mystery tggzzz.

Where would you even start with with "Towering Inferno", where the designer at the start of the movie is investigating why a power panel blew and he asks for a pair of "dykes" and is handed what looks like wire cutters, so he can take a sample of the overheated wire with him.

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Yes, that is what those pliers are used for.

"Dikes" is a fairly standard contraction of "diagonal cutters", but I usually call them cutters.
Fred Basset:
I would like to clear up an apparently commonly-held beleif that if you can cry for help, you can breathe.  That is not true, and I know as it happened to me only yesterday.

I was in a hospital bed when my neck became twisted as a procedure was being performed.  I used the last of my breath to alert them and all was well. You can force air out with a lot more force than you can suck it in.  Just one reason alone is that when you try to breathe in, the walls of your airways can collapse as they are sucked in, but forcing air out opens them up due to the compression of the air forcing them apart.

Secondly, the muscles weaken as they are starved of oxygen, so those colapsing walls will collapse further as the patient nears unconsciouness.  That also can cause secondary blockages such as tongue swallowing.

It is absolutely not true to think that is someone can call for help, they are not suffocating.  The process can take several minutes as their bodies shut down.  Read about killers who strangle and they often say it takes 4 minutes or more to actually strangle their victims.
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Fred Basset on July 09, 2020, 09:51:38 am ---I would like to clear up an apparently commonly-held beleif that if you can cry for help, you can breathe.  That is not true, and I know as it happened to me only yesterday.

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This discussion (and this entire page of responses) has absolutely nothing to do with this thread, please stay on topic everyone.
If people can't do this then I either lock the thread or I start deleting posts.
nuclearcat:
Linux team approves new terminology, bans terms like 'blacklist' and 'slave'
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-team-approves-new-terminology-bans-terms-like-blacklist-and-slave/

I wonder if i submit new SPI device driver, and in specs of driver it is specified MISO/MOSI, they will force me to rename on their discreption to terms they see appropriate?
Bloody hell.

UPD:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=49decddd39e5f6132ccd7d9fdc3d7c470b0061bb

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+For symbol names and documentation, avoid introducing new usage of
+'master / slave' (or 'slave' independent of 'master') and 'blacklist /
+whitelist'.

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It seems only symbol names and documentation. Still, documentation might be corner case...
Simon:
Just ignore them, if they want people to write free software they will have to take what they get and like it.
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