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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
Zero999:
--- Quote from: coppice on July 17, 2020, 11:27:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: Zero999 on July 17, 2020, 10:36:21 pm ---I doubt that has anything to do with it. The idea that true colourblindess is common amongst men is a largely myth. The type of colourblindness which would make it impossible for someone to distinguish red and black, or even red and green is comparatively rare.
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Really? Back in the days of colour banded resistors I used to get a LOT of resistors stuck under my nose by some random guy at the next bench, asking me to read them. If it was possible for them to distinguish the relevant colours to some extent, their ability certainly wasn't good enough to give them any confidence.
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Well I didn't say severe colourblindess doesn't exist, just that it's more rare, than many believe.
What was the lighting like? Let me guess old fashioned low CRI fluorescent, HID or mercury vapour? If he was only slightly colourblind, he probably would have been able to do the job fine under better lighting, but why didn't he just use a multimeter, or were the resistors already fitted to the board? If the latter was true, a small incandescent torch would have helped.
coppice:
--- Quote from: Zero999 on July 18, 2020, 11:18:19 am ---
--- Quote from: coppice on July 17, 2020, 11:27:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: Zero999 on July 17, 2020, 10:36:21 pm ---I doubt that has anything to do with it. The idea that true colourblindess is common amongst men is a largely myth. The type of colourblindness which would make it impossible for someone to distinguish red and black, or even red and green is comparatively rare.
--- End quote ---
Really? Back in the days of colour banded resistors I used to get a LOT of resistors stuck under my nose by some random guy at the next bench, asking me to read them. If it was possible for them to distinguish the relevant colours to some extent, their ability certainly wasn't good enough to give them any confidence.
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Well I didn't say severe colourblindess doesn't exist, just that it's more rare, than many believe.
What was the lighting like? Let me guess old fashioned low CRI fluorescent, HID or mercury vapour? If he was only slightly colourblind, he probably would have been able to do the job fine under better lighting, but why didn't he just use a multimeter, or were the resistors already fitted to the board? If the latter was true, a small incandescent torch would have helped.
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Many, many, many people, in a variety of places with different lighting conditions (mostly daylight near big windows or fluorescent) have stuck resistors under my nose to be read. Lighting conditions under which I have never had a problem reading resistors, apart from some of the families of early metal film resistors where everyone struggles between red, orange and brown, and the sales people were used to hearing complaints. As for why they didn't use a meter, that was usually my question when they did this too often.
GeorgeOfTheJungle:
Half toasted ones can be almost impossible to decipher. And yes, I have found orange and red difficult to distinguish more than once => ended up with 47k instead of 4k7 :-)
GeorgeOfTheJungle:
--- Quote from: Simon on July 17, 2020, 09:09:43 pm ---What he says is very accurate, an just like we think not saying nigger anymore means we are not racist anymore is wrong, so is tearing down statues and changing words not going to make a blind bit of difference unless we actually want to get rid of racism.
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It isn't really about racism, what this sick minds are asking for is positive discrimination, a sort of privileged carte blanche for their chosen groups (you name it), and if you dare to point that out, in the sick minds' minds you're not allowed to disagree and you're called names or worse.
paulca:
--- Quote from: GeorgeOfTheJungle on July 18, 2020, 02:19:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: Simon on July 17, 2020, 09:09:43 pm ---What he says is very accurate, an just like we think not saying nigger anymore means we are not racist anymore is wrong, so is tearing down statues and changing words not going to make a blind bit of difference unless we actually want to get rid of racism.
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It isn't really about racism, what this sick minds are asking for is positive discrimination, a sort of privileged carte blanche for their chosen groups (you name it), and if you dare to point that out, in the sick minds' minds you're not allowed to disagree and you're called names or worse.
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You mean fascism?
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