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Doesn't 'for fun' clearly indicate that this isn't designed to replace a professional-grade solution though?

AdieuToLogic 7y ago
> Doesn't 'for fun' clearly indicate that this isn't designed to replace a professional-grade solution though? Depends on the person and their understanding of English colloquialisms I suppose. What might be less misunderstood is: This is an educational project and is not meant for use in production systems. Granted, native English speakers likely will infer this project is research/educational in nature and benefit. But why leave it to chance?
- DuskStar 7y ago
  Well the repo description is "World's most dumbest Load Balancer", which might count for something
  - AdieuToLogic 7y ago
    > Well the repo description is "World's most dumbest Load Balancer", which might count for something Amongst the synonyms for "dumb"[0] is "simple" and is used commonly as such. A definition of "simple" is[1]: easy to understand, deal with, use, etc.: a simple matter; simple tools. The GitHub repo[2] has as its project URI the leaf segment "simplelb"[2]. The first non-title line of the GitHub repo[2] reads thusly: Simple LB is the simplest Load Balancer ever created. Nowhere in the README.md are the words "educational", "production", "research", or "fun." All of this is to say, what "might count for something" may not be what the author intends. 0 - https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dumb https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dumb 1 - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/simple https://www.dictionary.com/browse/simple 2 - https://github.com/kasvith/simplelb/ https://github.com/kasvith/simplelb/
    - DuskStar 7y ago
      If you race through chains of synonyms, changing between definitions along the way, you can get almost anywhere. Why does this matter? And here's the full list of synonyms listed there: > airheaded, birdbrained, bonehead, boneheaded, brain-dead, brainless, bubbleheaded, chuckleheaded, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey (also dopy), dorky [slang], dull, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, gormless [chiefly British], half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), lunkheaded, mindless, oafish, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, senseless, simple, slow, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, stupid, thick, thick-witted, thickheaded, unintelligent, unsmart, vacuous, weak-minded, witless
      - AdieuToLogic 7y ago
        > If you race through chains of synonyms, changing between definitions along the way, you can get almost anywhere. Why does this matter? I am not racing through chains of synonyms. What I was trying to elucidate was that the use of "dumbest", when the repo is ".../simplelb", and the very first line of the README says the project "is the simplest Load Balancer ever created" might, just might, lead people to think that "dumbest" is being used in this context as a synonym for "simplest". Which might, just might, cause people to consider it for uses this project is not intended to satisfy.
        cglace 7y ago
        I would really love to meet the person that knows the English language well enough to understand that dumb can sometimes mean simple but also would interpret that sentence to mean “world simplest Load balancer”. Very strange axe you have to grind for a very unlikely hypothetical. Just because something is possible doesn’t mean it is probable.
        hamburglar 7y ago
        "Very strange axe to grind" is right. The repo has 25 commits from start to finish. Who is in danger of thinking this is production ready?

> Doesn't 'for fun' clearly indicate that this isn't designed to replace a professional-grade solution though? Depends on the person and their understanding of English colloquialisms I suppose. What might be less misunderstood is: This is an educational project and is not meant for use in production systems. Granted, native English speakers likely will infer this project is research/educational in nature and benefit. But why leave it to chance?

DuskStar 7y ago
Well the repo description is "World's most dumbest Load Balancer", which might count for something
- AdieuToLogic 7y ago
  > Well the repo description is "World's most dumbest Load Balancer", which might count for something Amongst the synonyms for "dumb"[0] is "simple" and is used commonly as such. A definition of "simple" is[1]: easy to understand, deal with, use, etc.: a simple matter; simple tools. The GitHub repo[2] has as its project URI the leaf segment "simplelb"[2]. The first non-title line of the GitHub repo[2] reads thusly: Simple LB is the simplest Load Balancer ever created. Nowhere in the README.md are the words "educational", "production", "research", or "fun." All of this is to say, what "might count for something" may not be what the author intends. 0 - https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dumb https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dumb 1 - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/simple https://www.dictionary.com/browse/simple 2 - https://github.com/kasvith/simplelb/ https://github.com/kasvith/simplelb/
  - DuskStar 7y ago
    If you race through chains of synonyms, changing between definitions along the way, you can get almost anywhere. Why does this matter? And here's the full list of synonyms listed there: > airheaded, birdbrained, bonehead, boneheaded, brain-dead, brainless, bubbleheaded, chuckleheaded, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey (also dopy), dorky [slang], dull, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, gormless [chiefly British], half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), lunkheaded, mindless, oafish, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, senseless, simple, slow, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, stupid, thick, thick-witted, thickheaded, unintelligent, unsmart, vacuous, weak-minded, witless
    - AdieuToLogic 7y ago
      > If you race through chains of synonyms, changing between definitions along the way, you can get almost anywhere. Why does this matter? I am not racing through chains of synonyms. What I was trying to elucidate was that the use of "dumbest", when the repo is ".../simplelb", and the very first line of the README says the project "is the simplest Load Balancer ever created" might, just might, lead people to think that "dumbest" is being used in this context as a synonym for "simplest". Which might, just might, cause people to consider it for uses this project is not intended to satisfy.
      - cglace 7y ago
        I would really love to meet the person that knows the English language well enough to understand that dumb can sometimes mean simple but also would interpret that sentence to mean “world simplest Load balancer”. Very strange axe you have to grind for a very unlikely hypothetical. Just because something is possible doesn’t mean it is probable.
        hamburglar 7y ago
        "Very strange axe to grind" is right. The repo has 25 commits from start to finish. Who is in danger of thinking this is production ready?