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| paulca:
--- Quote from: themadhippy on July 14, 2020, 11:49:16 pm --- --- Quote ---When a boat also had shore-power AC wiring then we had a potential problem where a black wire could either be DC ground or AC hot. --- End quote --- Here in the uk pre 2004 the fixed wiring colour code was black neutral and the 3 phases were red yellow and blue .Post 2004 the phase colours changed to brown grey and black with neutral becoming blue.Makes for interesting times when working on older installations with mixed colours. --- End quote --- The reason for the blue/brown is due to some common colour blindness seeing red and black as the same colour. |
| MK14:
Going against the trend of this entire thread here. I'm all for this, it is the correct and sensible thing to do! Otherwise, I would have started to be highly sarcastic and silly, in my response. We should go much further. In support of inclusivity, we should ban the exclusive or gate. So, no XOR/EOR gates. So, no more FPGAs, CPLDs, ASICs etc. No more microprocessors/microcontrollers, because they include the XOR instruction(s). No more op-amps, because the + and - inputs are too exclusive. So, no more digital or analogue electronics. Throw away and ban everything electronic, such as TVs. TV was an illegal term anyway, because it could upset the transvestite/tranny community. Let's go a lot further and ban dictionaries, because they contain a lot of rude and nasty words. Infact, lets ban the English language, or all languages, as they include various swear and other nasty words. There are still plenty of caves, we an go back to inhabiting. tl;dr Words are just words. They are NOT (in general) being inherently rude/racist about anyone. There is nothing wrong (my opinion and maybe others), using master/slave etc, in electronics/computer source, schematics etc. It is referring to inanimate objects, i.e. things that are not living creatures, so nobody should take offence. Anyway, a master/slave flip-flop is neither black or white (human), anyway. Items in museums are historical facts/items (in general). They shouldn't be destroyed or damaged. Because history is history. Facts are facts. |
| SerieZ:
XOR XAND etc sound like they could be misrepresenting a Gender. Highly Problematic. |
| madires:
Much simpler solution: some people should be banned from using social media >:D |
| tggzzz:
--- Quote from: MK14 on July 15, 2020, 01:10:57 pm ---Because history is history. Facts are facts. --- End quote --- If only things were that simple, life would be easier! As the old joke goes "In Russia, how can anyone predict the future when it’s so hard to predict the past?". Examples: https://www.pbs.org/redfiles/prop/inv/prop_inv_ins.htm |
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