I remember some discussion here about databases with a link to CMU's Advanced Database Systems materials. This one perhaps: https://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/sp

I remember some discussion here about databases with a link to CMU's Advanced Database Systems materials. This one perhaps: https://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2017/schedule.html#warning https://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2017/schedule.html#wa... It has this warning: --- The material presented in this lecture uses explicit language and discusses certain situations in database management systems that may be triggering to some students --- After browsing some of the literature there, I honestly couldn't decide, and still can't, if it was meant as a joke or they are being serious. The joke being something like "this database that doesn't actually run fsync to write to disk before returning a successful result" or they are genuinely concerned about students' well-being. But assuming they are serious, which I hope they are, what can students do there? Do they have a choice to avoid reading the work. Then if CS requires trigger warnings, how is history. It would just be full of brutality, abuse and awfulness.