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No, it means none of that. It's code. No one that matters looks at it or cares. Making unnecessary changes to code does zero in solving any societal ills.

HNisCIS 5mo ago
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- JumpCrisscross 5mo ago
  > it's fine to name all your variables slurs then? Hyperbole. Renaming “master” directories was a total circlejerk endeavor by the same crowd that came up with Latinx.
  - HNisCIS 5mo ago
    The issue wasn't really git master, that was a side effect. Google what MISO means and maybe go learn some actual kernel development.
- 866-RON-0-FEZ 5mo ago
  > Soooo it's fine to name all your variables slurs then? Except that never happened. It's fantasy. What did happen was words like "black hat" and "white hat" got re-classified as hateful language. I'm actually surprised the conference was spared by the mob.
  - pastor_williams 5mo ago
    At my work at also got rid of build cop because that was considered offensive.
- fwipsy 5mo ago
  I haven't met anyone who is actually uncomfortable with the term "master," only people concerned about what others might think of them. It's not really being inclusive; it's just signaling inclusivity. Surely the time would be better spent, I don't know, volunteering to tutor underprivileged students or something? Or just living your damn life.
  - Larrikin 5mo ago
    Why not spend the 5 seconds it takes to do that refactor and then tutor the kids?
    - fwipsy 5mo ago
      More like 5 days, unless by "refactor" you mean #define master main
      - Larrikin 5mo ago
        It takes your team 5 days to change a variable name?
        fwipsy 5mo ago
        It's used in our PTP protocol implementation which is integrated with a half-dozen different customer-facing UIs, APIs, and documentation. We could add the new terminology, but we would need to keep supporting old terminology indefinitely for backwards compatibility.
  - simulator5g 5mo ago
    I have met several people who are uncomfortable with the 'master/slave' terminology. In my experience, those who do not experience much racism in their day to day lives do not find it offensive, and vice versa. Therefore, it is at least slightly offensive in my opinion. Once I was explaining how my day went to an ex, and my day happened to involve the terms, and they were absolutely floored that those terms were still used. Then the whole conversation was about racism in tech, and that had significantly less aura than my story of how I fixed everything. Beware ye olde words, lest ye scare thein hoes.

HNisCIS 5mo ago

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JumpCrisscross 5mo ago
> it's fine to name all your variables slurs then? Hyperbole. Renaming “master” directories was a total circlejerk endeavor by the same crowd that came up with Latinx.
- HNisCIS 5mo ago
  The issue wasn't really git master, that was a side effect. Google what MISO means and maybe go learn some actual kernel development.
866-RON-0-FEZ 5mo ago
> Soooo it's fine to name all your variables slurs then? Except that never happened. It's fantasy. What did happen was words like "black hat" and "white hat" got re-classified as hateful language. I'm actually surprised the conference was spared by the mob.
- pastor_williams 5mo ago
  At my work at also got rid of build cop because that was considered offensive.
fwipsy 5mo ago
I haven't met anyone who is actually uncomfortable with the term "master," only people concerned about what others might think of them. It's not really being inclusive; it's just signaling inclusivity. Surely the time would be better spent, I don't know, volunteering to tutor underprivileged students or something? Or just living your damn life.
- Larrikin 5mo ago
  Why not spend the 5 seconds it takes to do that refactor and then tutor the kids?
  - fwipsy 5mo ago
    More like 5 days, unless by "refactor" you mean #define master main
    - Larrikin 5mo ago
      It takes your team 5 days to change a variable name?
      - fwipsy 5mo ago
        It's used in our PTP protocol implementation which is integrated with a half-dozen different customer-facing UIs, APIs, and documentation. We could add the new terminology, but we would need to keep supporting old terminology indefinitely for backwards compatibility.
- simulator5g 5mo ago
  I have met several people who are uncomfortable with the 'master/slave' terminology. In my experience, those who do not experience much racism in their day to day lives do not find it offensive, and vice versa. Therefore, it is at least slightly offensive in my opinion. Once I was explaining how my day went to an ex, and my day happened to involve the terms, and they were absolutely floored that those terms were still used. Then the whole conversation was about racism in tech, and that had significantly less aura than my story of how I fixed everything. Beware ye olde words, lest ye scare thein hoes.