Stumbled upon this when looking for help on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/1cwag3q/are_race_conditions_racist/?chainedposts=t3_n8qi6n
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Don’t know if this has been fixed but Gemini was telling people it’s unethical to teach people C++ or memory management.
Because it’s considered “memory unsafe” but Gemini took it literally and considered it to unsafe to teach.
proud Rust developer
Joke aside, everytime people gush over AI, I always have to remind them that AI is just a puppy that learnt how to maximise treats, and not actually understand shit. And this is a perfectly good example.
I mean, I totally agree with you. But that also kinda ignores all the useful things a dog can be trained to do.
Oh I’m not talking that it can’t be trained well. That’s not my point.
Of course dogs can be trained to sniff drugs or find people, the gist of it is that they were trained for this behaviour, and might not understand it like we do.
A good exemple is a study that research on cancer sniffing dogs had problems with false positives.
No, you can’t say “master,” either.
Sorry, main race condition
pc m*ster r*ce
That one i get at least. But race condition is using race in the sense of a competition.
You do? Because I don’t. There is nothing racist about the concept of master. Is a masterpiece racist? Are master tapes, Are post-graduate degrees racist? We may as well declare “work” insensitive because slaves had to work.
Don’t get me wrong, there are many terms we should adjust. I just can’t see how “master” is one of them.
I’d argue that abolishing the term “slave” isn’t the worst idea, implying that the word “master,” only in context where it’s paired with “slave,” should go as well - but that, of course, requires nuance, which a simple word filter lacks.
Why abolish the word slave? I’ve heard of people advocating for abolishing the word “black” also. It’s crazy to me. I don’t understand how using the word at all somehow advocates for human slavery.
It draws unfortunate parallels.
I do agree that the proposals to abolish “black” feel a bit misguided though surely well-intentioned; the etymology of “blacklist,” for example, has no relation to race whatsoever. However, there are unfortunate parallels with how “black” and “white” people were and indeed are still treated differently.
And yet there’s a big push to rename git “master” branches, which have no slave connotations and are more analogous to master recordings.
Its not like I’ll fight it, but it’s stupid.
I thought it was dumb too but, to be honest, I kind of prefer using “main” now. It’s quicker to type lol
This. To avoid the “master” branch on our git to be associated with “slave” I now name new branches “bitch”
Just skip the intermediate naming conventions and go straight to
dom/sub
Don’t get me wrong, there are many terms we should adjust. I just can’t see how “master” is one of them.
That is a very specific usage of the word “master”. We can adjust that, while continuing to use “master” in all the cases where it has nothing to do with slavery.
Whatever ma’am, go name the branch at work a racial slur, I don’t care
Wait until you try to do something that involves managing child processes
Can’t the master kill all slaves and childs (processes)? It’s in the manual!
Relevant meme
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I’m pretty sure it is satire. However, it would be hilarious if it was real.
At work we don’t have the right to use master/slave (maître /esclave) anymore because of history (this is mostly linked to deploying systems). On the upside our git master is now the shorter ‘main’.
Ugh this kind of BS virtue signaling is so pointless
It saves two keystrokes
