notajoke

How does the audio example square with nyquist limit? Basically you can get it back, mostly, with some clever tricks, but I’m not crazy thinking that the original was decimated beyond lossless recovery right?

Used to work on a bbone at an ATT competitor, used Juniper in the core. There was a lot of talk and sales too about SDN and the future of networking being all automated, but in the end there was always problems that needed a brain and an ssh session to fix

Yes, exactly. Take IDE drives for example. To use two drives with a single cable, one is set to be the master, the other to be the slave. From that point onwards, the slave cannot write to the bus until the master gives permission.

No, I don’t think so anyway. It’s a very literal, very accurate abstraction for reasoning about the way two components in a system interact.

Consider devices connected on an i2c communication bus. One device is literally acting as the master and dictating to the slaves, who have no choice in the matter.

To argue that the terms should be changed is to deny the reality of the situation - some of those devices are enslaved. Not followers, slaves!