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"We also assigned each server a static unique identifier in the form of a woman’s name – a shrinking namespace with thousands of servers." Let me fix that for
by be_erik 11y ago
"We also assigned each server a static unique identifier in the form of a woman’s name – a shrinking namespace with thousands of servers."
Let me fix that for you; stop gendering your servers.
- akerl_ 11y agoIf they'd instead said "We assigned each server a static ID in the form of a female computer scientist's name", we'd be here praising them for their forward-thinking inclusion. Maybe lets not see everything as offense-worthy?
- negz 11y agoFWIW a team of largely men using womens' names for servers always felt a bit icky to me personally for reasons I couldn't quite enunciate. We now use ungendered serial numbers.