It's harder than you think to come up with a better term. Queen/drone is sexist. Xi/politburo will offend the Chinese. General/grunts? AWACS/fighters? PHB/Dilberts?
replace "master/slave" terminology with "primary/replica"
They got this wrong. Its not about replication, its about one object being an agent of another.
Agreed. In this case, the closest analogy to "master/slave" would be "employer/employee"...:-)
More seriously, I can get behind "allow/block-list" instead of "white/black-list" and understand that "master/slave" has problematic real-world associations, but the latter exactly describes the relationship as it's usually used in technology -- pseudo-terminals, brake cylinders, etc... One controls, the other does. In addition, the words are dissimilar so they can't get easily mixed up (like when coding) wh
replace "master/slave" terminology with "primary/replica"
They got this wrong. Its not about replication, its about one object being an agent of another.
Agreed. In this case, the closest analogy to "master/slave" would be "employer/employee"...:-)
I'd of gone "parent/child" to match existing discussions of process forking and creating threads but I'm sure zealots would freak over that too. I thought "agent" kind of neutral, and its coming from a business perspective like yours. A business owner has a vision and needs an agent (CEO, president, etc) that will implement the owner's vision. Obviously the zealots will freak over "owner" too. They will probably reject "employer/employee" as well. "Manager" would fit in better with other tech concepts, but
More seriously, I can get behind "allow/block-list" instead of "white/black-list"....
But why though?
First of allI am for using inclusive non-racial terms in tech and science.
But there has got to be some rhyme and reason to it, and blacklist does not stem from racial terms( https://www.etymonline.com/wor... [etymonline.com] ) , are we to rename black body radiation as well?
replace "master/slave" terminology with "primary/replica"
They got this wrong. Its not about replication, its about one object being an agent of another.
It's not about accuracy, it's about controlling other people.
The thought police don't really care what it was you were thinking before - the important thing is that from now on you ask them permission to think it.
The thought police don't really care what it was you were thinking before - the important thing is that from now on you ask them permission to think it.
It's pretty shocking, in the name of fighting fascism, these anti-fascists (antifa for short) are trying to control the language that various open source projects are trying to use. Often these are projects they have no association with and don't use, but as soon as they start trying to use language in an unapproved way the antifa swoop in and try to stop th
It's accurate. It's kinda like RAID1 for web services, you have an identical copy that replicates the primary so you can switch over in the event if failure.
One does not control the other any more than one HD in a RAID1 controls the other.
No. It is inaccurate because process forking, creating a child process as a copy of the parent process, is only one model of creating an agent to do some work in parallel. Another model is to create a thread. A thread is not a copy, although there is still a parent / child relationship. "Parent/child" would have made a better replacement but zealots would problem have had problems with that too.
It's not a process fork, it's a complete replica system. Database, web server, script execution environment etc. Likely on another computer for reliability and load balancing.
"master/slave" to "primary/replica", got it wrong (Score:5, Insightful)
replace "master/slave" terminology with "primary/replica"
They got this wrong. Its not about replication, its about one object being an agent of another.
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Re:"master/slave" to "primary/replica", got it wro (Score:5, Funny)
If your Whore Drive isn't working, make sure there's a Pimp Drive on the ribbon.
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Bruh, it should be Pimp/Ho.
The Pimp drive slaps the data onto the Ho drive.
Problem solved, time to hang out my consultant shingle and make that $$$.
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How about Lannister/Clegane ?
It's harder than you think to come up with a better term. Queen/drone is sexist. Xi/politburo will offend the Chinese. General/grunts? AWACS/fighters? PHB/Dilberts?
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replace "master/slave" terminology with "primary/replica"
They got this wrong. Its not about replication, its about one object being an agent of another.
Agreed. In this case, the closest analogy to "master/slave" would be "employer/employee" ... :-)
More seriously, I can get behind "allow/block-list" instead of "white/black-list" and understand that "master/slave" has problematic real-world associations, but the latter exactly describes the relationship as it's usually used in technology -- pseudo-terminals, brake cylinders, etc ... One controls, the other does. In addition, the words are dissimilar so they can't get easily mixed up (like when coding) wh
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Maybe "organizer/agent" is PC enough (Score:2)
replace "master/slave" terminology with "primary/replica"
They got this wrong. Its not about replication, its about one object being an agent of another.
Agreed. In this case, the closest analogy to "master/slave" would be "employer/employee" ... :-)
I'd of gone "parent/child" to match existing discussions of process forking and creating threads but I'm sure zealots would freak over that too. I thought "agent" kind of neutral, and its coming from a business perspective like yours. A business owner has a vision and needs an agent (CEO, president, etc) that will implement the owner's vision. Obviously the zealots will freak over "owner" too. They will probably reject "employer/employee" as well. "Manager" would fit in better with other tech concepts, but
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More seriously, I can get behind "allow/block-list" instead of "white/black-list" ....
But why though? First of allI am for using inclusive non-racial terms in tech and science. But there has got to be some rhyme and reason to it, and blacklist does not stem from racial terms( https://www.etymonline.com/wor... [etymonline.com] ) , are we to rename black body radiation as well?
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replace "master/slave" terminology with "primary/replica"
They got this wrong. Its not about replication, its about one object being an agent of another.
It's not about accuracy, it's about controlling other people.
The thought police don't really care what it was you were thinking before - the important thing is that from now on you ask them permission to think it.
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The thought police don't really care what it was you were thinking before - the important thing is that from now on you ask them permission to think it.
It's pretty shocking, in the name of fighting fascism, these anti-fascists (antifa for short) are trying to control the language that various open source projects are trying to use. Often these are projects they have no association with and don't use, but as soon as they start trying to use language in an unapproved way the antifa swoop in and try to stop th
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It's accurate. It's kinda like RAID1 for web services, you have an identical copy that replicates the primary so you can switch over in the event if failure.
One does not control the other any more than one HD in a RAID1 controls the other.
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... you have an identical copy ...
No. It is inaccurate because process forking, creating a child process as a copy of the parent process, is only one model of creating an agent to do some work in parallel. Another model is to create a thread. A thread is not a copy, although there is still a parent / child relationship. "Parent/child" would have made a better replacement but zealots would problem have had problems with that too.
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It's not a process fork, it's a complete replica system. Database, web server, script execution environment etc. Likely on another computer for reliability and load balancing.
A special kind of love (Score:1)
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