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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 months ago by Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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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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[–] ScreamingFirehawk@feddit.uk 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's all good and well until you start working in a repo that has both master and main branches for some reason, and it is not clear which is actually the master/main branch.

[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 40 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Then you're working in an idiotic repo. You could just as well have have a master and an actual_master branch. Similar idiocy.

[–] ScreamingFirehawk@feddit.uk 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It only takes one person to fuck it up. I agree it's stupid, but introducing a conflicting standard increases the chances of someone fucking it up in the name of progressiveness. Needless to say I killed off the main branch that someone one had tried to make to replace the master branch.

[–] SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

A place I used to work at had that.. The corp had rolled out a non-delete policy with something akin to *master, so when someone made a abrv_master branch it got protected and couldn't be deleted anymore.