How did the master/slave nomenclature even come to be in tech? There isn't actually any power relationship in stuff that uses it (e.g. IDE) so it's confusing why it was ever even chosen instead of main/primary etc.
It's really annoying that now it's all changing and I have to get used to it despite growing up and using master for everything since I first used a computer, so I'm curious where it comes from.
:/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master/slave_(technology)
just google it
Based Wikipedia BTFOing californian Black folk and trannies with a neutral point of view.
ahahahaha
>wikipedia becomes based
this is truly clownworld
wikipedia has always strived to be objective and impartial, it's not "based" now because it agrees with your particular worldviews, troony.
in todays world being impartial is based, homosexual
i stand corrected
wait
>always strived to be objective and impartial
ahahahahhaha
fricking hilarious
how letting random users write articles is impartial again?
You just know they fricked up when even euros got tired of liberal whining.
Master/apprentice?
Originated in 1904 it probably was used because they didn't give a frick about black people lmfao
Honestly the name scheming seems ridiculous to me I might as well use god/peasant. But it's not tech terminology unless it sounds moronic so it gets the job done.
Whats your next question going to be about? white/blacklist?
>be white male programmer in the 70s
>don't give a frick about black people
>call it master/slave
simple as
>be me
>be white male programmer in the 20s
>don't give a frick about black people
>call it master/slave
War never changes
Are you moronic? Honest question. Why did you think this was witty? You just parroted the post you replied to and made it about yourself.
>You just parroted the post you replied to and made it about yourself.
Yes, that was the point. Its been 50 years and nothing has changed.
Are you autistic? Honest question.
No one here gives two shits about Black folk. No one.
They seem to be living rent free in your head
first post implied that people in the 70's didn't care about black people, the reply is implying that even today he also doesn't care about black people
A master process tells slave processes what to do. "Main", "primary" and most other proposed terms are too ambiguous to represent the idea.
How about leader and follower? I like master slave tho
This. In many cases, master/slave describes the interaction between components quitr well. While alternative wordings may be a better fit in some cases, they often miss the point entirely. For example, in a network where one node is specifically tasked with taking jobs from a central queue and distributing the workloads across a fleet of other nodes, it would be accurate to refer to the first node as master, and the other nodes as slaves. The master sends workload requests to the slaves. A much less accurate pair of terms that is unfortunately often touted as a good alternative would be primary/replica. The slave nodes are not replicating anything from the master. They are not clones of the master. They are even differently specced, because their workload is different than the master's workload. Leader and follower
is also problematic, as the word follower implies a pull-style architecture in which the master is passive while the slaves actively access it to acquire new jobs. This would be a misrepresentation of the system's architecture.
>This would be a misrepresentation of the system's architecture.
with ide master/slave has relevance only to the physical position of the drive
has nothing to do with inner processes
In this case, two instances of equivalently specced hardware perform slightly different roles. The master can communicate with the computer as it pleases. The slave only communicates when allowed to do so by the master.
my preferred wokeshit in most cases is primary/secondary. main also works well sometimes, leader/follower tends to have a more rigid connotation
I have a different usecase in mind. Leader follower works great here, but it’s got too much code inertia to rename things from a perfectly fine master slave thing
primary/replica sounds more like it's meant to do the 'master' thing as you have in git. Where it's just like the master in audio recording or film making. But you don't say a branch is a slave though.
I just hate how this moronic american shit where you have to be a racist schizo in the first place to see racism where there isn't any is infecting everything.
Sorry, but "allowlist ip xxxx" is fricking hard to read. Allow is a fricking verb, so it kinda reads like "allow (on, to be, to, ???) list" You have to stop and figure out that they mean "whitelist this ip, gas the israelites and a future for white children"
all on your own and it's annoying as frick.
Also, person in the middle attack.
Philosophy and mathematics have a close relationship. Hegel had a thing called "The Master and Slave Dialectic", which came out in 1807, long before American slavery was something that anyone gave two shits about.
...And in case it's not obvious to people who received their education in a box from a McDonald's drive-through, that work is not about Black folk and how important they are. It's about the nature of social dominance. Do you cola drinking fricks think that Julius Caesar had Uncle Remus and Aunt Jemima working in his country villa?
>There isn't actually any power relationship in stuff that uses it
there usually is
Master circuit
Master plan
Master bedroom
>I just can't understand how the word came to be used! - troony trying to bait
yet another nazi 2.0 americanism. Americans are so much better at being nazi's than nazi's it's no wonder germany lost twice
>There isn't actually any power relationship in stuff that uses it
Except there is. Just because you don't understand something doesn't magically change the entire world to make you right and make it wrong.
the truth is master/slave does not exclusively refer to human slavery, and has many entirely innocuous uses
if we dropped words every time they were used in a negative way, we'd be changing words faster than anyone could keep up
like "git" in some places is used to refer to a stupid person, both "cis" and "trans" have been used in derogatory ways, etc
in the future maybe it'll start that "primary/replica" be used to refer to refer to human/AI relations in a derogatory matter, what then? change the words again? to what end?
Try to create an automatic distribution system between autonomous cells.
Human example: Brain/Body