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

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coppice:

--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on June 20, 2020, 10:38:15 pm ---I have some good friends who are either for banning terms that are claimed to offend others, or at least consider it not a bad idea because it placates people.

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Well, there is their first mistake. These moves don't placate anyone. They embolden people to search for more and more tenuous links between words and oppression. Remember that the basic principal of critical theory is to keep scratching at everything until it is torn to shreds. Soon we'll be using newspeak.

EEVblog:
Adafruit are replacing Master/Slave and other terms in all their documentation:
https://www.adafruit.com/blacklivesmatter

EEVblog:
Just occurred to me how widespread the term "white paper" is.
That's next, guaranteed.

Maybe the resistor colour code? If you think even the thought of that is ridiculous, just wait. Black and brown are on the bottom, and white is on the top.

Brumby:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on June 21, 2020, 02:27:41 am ---Maybe the resistor colour code? If you think even the thought of that is ridiculous, just wait. Black and brown are on the bottom, and white is on the top.

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Alternate perspective: Black and brown are far more important than white.  Just think of how many values of components actually use these colours and how many use white.  You could even say white was thrown in only to make up the 10 needed.  The other 9 do form a logical progression around the ROYGBIV sequence of the rainbow.  Even grey is used more than white.

As well as for digits, black and brown are frequently used for multipliers.  I've never seen a component with a white band multiplier.

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Brumby on June 21, 2020, 02:42:23 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on June 21, 2020, 02:27:41 am ---Maybe the resistor colour code? If you think even the thought of that is ridiculous, just wait. Black and brown are on the bottom, and white is on the top.

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Alternate perspective: Black and brown are far more important than white.  Just think of how many values of components actually use these colours and how many use white.  You could even say white was thrown in only to make up the 10 needed.

As well as for digits, black and brown are frequently use for multipliers.  I've never seen a component with a white band multiplier.

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Actually, come to think of it, on every depiction I've seen black and brown are on top, and white is on the bottom. So I guess that's  :-+

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