If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?

Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 609 points –

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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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