If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?
If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?
It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology's problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.
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A post-doc that occasionally taught one of my electrical engineering classes in the mid-90s liked to call master-slave flip-flops professor-graduate student flip-flops. I later learned he was not making a joke.
I don't get it
The relationship between a grad student and their professor is generally characterized by a profound power imbalance.
Oh I got confused because I was thinking of literally flip flops
The footwear, or the logic gate arrangement?
Footwear, I was just picturing the professor yeeting a chancla the grad student