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Re:Twitter is dropping coding terms like 'master' and 'slave' by rimliu on Friday July 03, 2020 @09:10AM (#23723650)
That alone is sufficient reason not to support this change, otherwise we will run out of words pretty soon.
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Re:Twitter is dropping coding terms like 'master' and 'slave' by NetOpWibby on Friday July 03, 2020 @09:15AM (#23723703)
“Soon.”

Really.

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Re:Twitter is dropping coding terms like 'master' and 'slave' by SpicyLemonZest on Friday July 03, 2020 @09:36AM (#23723878)
Really. I mentioned this downthread, but the headline undersells the extent of Twitter's change; they've also dropped the terms "dummy value" and "guys".
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Re:Twitter is dropping coding terms like 'master' and 'slave' by 3saryHg6LP2e on Friday July 03, 2020 @10:36AM (#23724401)
"guys" is literally literally defined in the dictionary[1] as:

> used to address a group of people of either sex: >Come on, you guys, let's go.

[1] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/guy

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