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When you assert “nobody cares”, you’re just being a jerk. Lots of people do, you just don’t care. And your reduction ad absurdum argument is not convincing at
by cactus2093 6y ago
When you assert “nobody cares”, you’re just being a jerk. Lots of people do, you just don’t care.
And your reduction ad absurdum argument is not convincing at all here. Yes it is possible to take this too far. Some people probably do take it too far. The concepts of light and dark are physical realities as in a black hole being the absence of reflected or emitted light. And they have long been used as metaphors for opposing forces, as in yin and yang or many cultures’ representations of good and evil. I think there is very reasonable argument that analogies to these things can be separated from the concept of white and black as races of people in American.
There is really no reasonable argument that master and slave is a good terminology to use for databases. It’s an overt and completely unnecessary reference to slavery, and not even a particularly apt or useful analogy. There are better words like primary and replica or follower that are easy to use.
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- gnusty_gnurc 6y ago> It’s an overt and completely unnecessary reference to slavery, and not even a particularly apt or useful analogy. Is it not far more demeaning to act like anyone would crumble under the weight of mere words used in a technical context? Should we drop the term clone because it causes the religious to dwell on evil scientists playing god?
- cactus2093 6y ago> Is it not far more demeaning to act like anyone would crumble under the weight of mere words used in a technical context? No, it's not far more demeaning. You're really arguing that it's demeaning to be decent and respect other people's feelings and reactions to things? With that attitude, should I just walk around insulting people for no reason, telling everyone I come across to go fuck themselves? Because it would be far more demeaning to assume that someone can't handle being told to go fuck themselves.
- yellowapple 6y ago> There is really no reasonable argument that master and slave is a good terminology to use for databases. That doesn't mean that it's reasonable to insist that all databases which already use this terminology should potentially break compatibility with prior versions of themselves simply because a handful of other people see the words "master" and "slave" and entirely ignore actual context in order to look "woke" (coming across as superficial and insincere in the process). It is what it is. Maybe there are more descriptive terms, but "master" and "slave" are descriptive enough.