It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology’s problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.
It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology’s problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.
A post-doc that occasionally taught one of my electrical engineering classes in the mid-90s liked to call master-slave flip-flops professor-graduate student flip-flops. I later learned he was not making a joke.
I don’t get it
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