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

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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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Wait until you find out how many programmers don’t even speak English. They must not be able to understand any of this if it’s so confusing to native speakers, right?

The consequence of updating language is not plane crashes. You need to update the version of the human interaction API that you’re using.

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