Stumbled upon this when looking for help on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/1cwag3q/are_race_conditions_racist/?chainedposts=t3_n8qi6n
Don't know if this has been fixed but Gemini was telling people it's unethical to teach people C++ or memory management.
Because it's considered "memory unsafe" but Gemini took it literally and considered it to unsafe to teach.
proud Rust developer
Joke aside, everytime people gush over AI, I always have to remind them that AI is just a puppy that learnt how to maximise treats, and not actually understand shit. And this is a perfectly good example.
Right??? I’m continually floored by how many genuinely smart people I come across who ignore this concept, which is one of the biggest reasons I just don’t trust LLMs in a general sense. Like sure, I can use them fairly effectively, but the vast majority of the people who interact with LLMs don’t use a level of caution with them that’s appropriate.
And that doesn't even touch on the huge ethical (and legal) issues around how LLM devs acquire and use training data.
Dogs are way more intelligent than that. LLM tech is basically a way to quickly breed fruit flies to fly right or left when they see a particular pattern.
But white house agrees: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3713203/white-house-urges-developers-to-dump-c-and-c.html
It's called "ethnic group condition"
No, you can't say "master," either.
That one i get at least. But race condition is using race in the sense of a competition.
You do? Because I don't. There is nothing racist about the concept of master. Is a masterpiece racist? Are master tapes, Are post-graduate degrees racist? We may as well declare "work" insensitive because slaves had to work.
Don't get me wrong, there are many terms we should adjust. I just can't see how "master" is one of them.
I'd argue that abolishing the term "slave" isn't the worst idea, implying that the word "master," only in context where it's paired with "slave," should go as well - but that, of course, requires nuance, which a simple word filter lacks.
This. To avoid the "master" branch on our git to be associated with "slave" I now name new branches "bitch"
There aren't "slaves" in git, though. The term "master" in that context is that of a master copy.
Nope. Bitkeeper used it in the master-slave pairing and the term was carried forward. Gitlab did a whole writeup about it.
"Historically, the default name for this initial branch was master. This term came from Bitkeeper, a predecessor to Git. Bitkeeper referred to the source of truth as the "master repository" and other copies as "slave repositories". This shows how common master/slave references have been in technology, and the difficulty in knowing how the term master should be interpreted."
Excerpt from the link the other member posted above! You're welcome!
It's funny, because a quick online search shows gitlab runs operations in Saudi Arabia. But at least a bunch of idiot westerners get to feel good about themselves 🤷♂️
Just skip the intermediate naming conventions and go straight to dom/sub
And yet there's a big push to rename git "master" branches, which have no slave connotations and are more analogous to master recordings.
Its not like I'll fight it, but it's stupid.
It is stupid, and it's because of a failure to understand the nuance.
I will not inconvenience myself or anyone else by making any changes to existing configurations, which will surely break workflows, but I don't give a shit what the main branch is called as long as it's obvious.
what the main branch is called
you mean master?
Why abolish the word slave? I've heard of people advocating for abolishing the word "black" also. It's crazy to me. I don't understand how using the word at all somehow advocates for human slavery.
It draws unfortunate parallels.
I do agree that the proposals to abolish "black" feel a bit misguided though surely well-intentioned; the etymology of "blacklist," for example, has no relation to race whatsoever. However, there are unfortunate parallels with how "black" and "white" people were and indeed are still treated differently.
Humans, conversely, are incredibly talented at deciphering nuance, except when they don’t want to.
It upsets some people. It doesn't affect the end user. The terms "Bull Branch" and "Cuck Branch" will make stand up meeting more fun.
Isn't the master branch the submissive one? Always behind, getting force fed content from the other branches.
I guess it could be construed as racist when it's literally "master/slave". But I have never seen it as a normalization of slavery because there usually is no value attached to the terms, it's just describing the relation between them. And I don't think acknowledging that a slave generally doesn't have much say in doing what their master tells them is racist in itself or endorsing/normalizing slavery.
But also, I am white, and there are other terms we can use that can describe this kind of relation just fine, so, whatever. I just get mildly annoyed when some stuff that was working perfectly fine gets deprecated just to change these terms and I have to adapt to it.
Don’t get me wrong, there are many terms we should adjust. I just can’t see how “master” is one of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%E2%80%93slave_(technology)
That is a very specific usage of the word "master". We can adjust that, while continuing to use "master" in all the cases where it has nothing to do with slavery.
Race conditions can make you a racist,
If you
Then there's no nice way to say it, you might be a racist, drive safe
go speed racist, go speed racist, go speed racist, go!
Wait until you try to do something that involves managing child processes
Can't the master kill all slaves and childs (processes)? It's in the manual!
At work we don't have the right to use master/slave (maître /esclave) anymore because of history (this is mostly linked to deploying systems). On the upside our git master is now the shorter 'main'.
"kill parent or sacrifice children"
Maybe they should use AI to filter the AI.
The other day I used the JetBrains AI to write some boilerplate code for me. The JetBrains AI code analyser then kicked in to tell me how poorly written the code was.
that's how you know they use stack overflow to train the models
Ask it for the final solution
Moderating AI is dumb. This is the result.
Good old Scunthorpe problem
[I have told this story elsewhere before]
I thought I was so clever once. I taught a word filter about "th" thinking that would solve the problem, but it still got stuck on Scunthorpe. mfw.
Had to step through what it was doing. It had hit a rule that treated 'oo' the same as 'u' which, at least sound-wise, is valid for some words in some dialects. e.g. Consider "book", which is identical to "buck" for many people. You can imagine why that might want to be caught.
To save you the head scratching, it had spotted the 'c' then a double-'o' then the 'n' and threw it out as containing a known racial slur.
The filter was for a random string generator so that it wouldn't generate strings with bad words in them. Seemed like a good idea at the time.
Since it was unlikely that it was going to generate "Scunthorpe" anyway, the problem remained unfixed.
It's incredible that this is such a big point of debate. This kind of thing is really ignoring the material reality of racism in favor of the minutiae. Let's have some 40 acres and a mule, then we can start talking about race conditions.
What’s wrong with being racy?
conditon. wrong is this? what with race
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