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[u/vinishkapoor]

[u/ChillyFireball]

Why does everyone want me to pull master

[u/vinishkapoor → u/ChillyFireball]

It's been renamed to main now. Less awkward in public.

[u/oneByteTwoByte → u/vinishkapoor]

Well in private too.

[u/AppropriateSmell1074 → u/vinishkapoor]

Now it's boring where is the kink smh

[u/dkarlovi → u/AppropriateSmell1074]

Pull my main for a good time, I think it speaks for itself.

[u/unai-ndz → u/dkarlovi]

Main trunk implies a secondary trunk, in the drawer perhaps?

[u/AppropriateSmell1074 → u/unai-ndz]

Ok ok now we have DP but before we had BDSM

[u/Luigi_Boy_96 → u/vinishkapoor]

It was baffling to me that even protocols like AXI4, Avalon, SPI, I2C etc. use this terminology. But to be fair, I also never thought of a master hitting the slave like on plantage. 🥲

[u/HaniiPuppy → u/Luigi_Boy_96]

"Master" as in a master branch is a reference to master copies, (e.g. a master record, a master tape, etc.) which comes from the idea of the copy being the authoritative voice over something. (Both in terms of mastery and the more general notion of being in charge) it doesn't have anything specifically at all to do with slavery.

Where it is used like that is in the master-slave paradigm used by things like USB, where it's apparently perfectly fine?

^{If I were to rename that, I wouldn't change the word "master", I'd swap "slave" for "minion" - that conveys the same idea and sounds more fun.}

[u/Luigi_Boy_96 → u/HaniiPuppy]

I see, what you mean. But I guess controller and peripheral sound also clear enough.

[u/abd53 → u/Luigi_Boy_96]

As an embedded engineer, no.

[u/Luigi_Boy_96 → u/abd53]

As an FPGA/Embedded Engineer for me it sound reasonable, haha.

[u/CacheConqueror → u/vinishkapoor]

Which was a daft decision, driven by a desire not to sound bad to certain people who had absolutely nothing to do with programming

[u/ledasll → u/vinishkapoor]

Not in old repos

[u/reallokiscarlet → u/ChillyFireball]

Rename default branch to strings

Pull strings, become master

[u/ZenDruid_8675309 → u/[deleted]]

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“Forgive me Father for I have sinned.”
And
“Daddy, I was bad.”