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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
magic:
You could substitute 'clock' for 'control' and 'clock donor' for 'master' in your post and it would still work :P
And yes, the MCU is the slave for it just keeps clocking the ROM to fetch more instructions to execute like a dumb little slave.
--- Quote from: tom66 on June 24, 2020, 06:57:07 am ---Rather than some pasty-white college students who have written a paper about how black people should find something offensive, because it seems most SJWs just want to role-play for minorities sometimes.
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Don't be so dismissive. It actually is a lucrative job because if you convince them that they should take offense in something (and it isn't really that hard to find a few losers), suddenly solutions will be needed and you just happen have them :D
I would go to the aforementioned dreaded orange forum for example of minorities getting triggered. I'm pretty sure some brave souls exist and moderators over there will do everything to make their voices heard. That's how it was with "women in tech" back in the day. But I haven't been there in years so no linkies, sorry.
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: magic on June 24, 2020, 06:18:04 am ---Those terms not only are offensive, they aren't even that helpful.
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What is really offensive is promoting some form of equivalence between intelligent humans and machines.
What is really offensive is expecting that people can't tell the difference.
People are used to the same word having different meanings in conjunction with different subjects. Consider, for example, the word "fire" used in conjunction with a weapon, a person, or a building.
PlainName:
--- Quote ---Consider, for example, the word "fire" used in conjunction with a weapon, a person, or a building.
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Let's see: weapon...bad, building...bad, person...bad (doubly so if you mix up meanings) :)
Nominal Animal:
--- Quote from: magic on June 24, 2020, 06:18:04 am ---Why should we stick to some generic terms like miso/mosi and master/slave if we could come up with more meaningful names appropriate to circumstances?
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Years ago, a Finnish band and comedy group Lapinlahden Linnut made a couple of sketches about this, actually: Tähtireki.
Eight people had survived a cataclysm that destroyed Earth, and now were amongst the stars trekking around for a new planet. They had developed a new, much better and more efficient way to communicate: why pronounce whole words, when the first letter is enough?
They end up changing course towards a black hole, because of unfortunate communications issues when the eighth member, a shapely lady, is seen on the bridge for the first time at the same time they finally locate a habitable planet, and the appreciation by a crew member are taken as the new course. Oops.
It is weird to see the world become more stupid than the sketches I used to see on the telly two or three decades ago.
paulca:
--- Quote from: magic on June 24, 2020, 05:35:53 am ---That's why this change is needed. Technical terms should reflect technical reality, not be references to abhorrent practices of white people.
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Slavery is a white thing now? How fucking racist. Off with his head.
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