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Why does that offend anyone? Its just a terminology to describe behaviour of two components. It doesn't endorse or propagate slavery. I have never heard of an
by me_me_me 6y ago
Why does that offend anyone?
Its just a terminology to describe behaviour of two components.
It doesn't endorse or propagate slavery. I have never heard of an argument that HDDs have masters and slaves so people should too.
If I kill a child thread, does it mean I am 'pro choice' now?
Does creating white-list or black-list makes me become racist?
Those are just word, meaningless and powerless. What really matters is context and intentions, a social nuance that it seems like was thrown out with bath water long time ago.
- acdha 6y ago> Its just a terminology to describe behaviour of two components. It does? I mean, I’ve used a lot of hard drives and never had one whip another or resell it to punish a friend for disobedience. I’ve also never heard of an enslaved person being put in charge after the plantation master died. Insisting on using inaccurate terms when better ones exist is a political stance which raises questions about the motives behind putting so much effort into opposing something which costs you nothing.
- xellisx 6y agoYeah, the amount of energy arguing about not changing the terminology; which can be changed to better reflect what it is, is mind boggling. I can understand arguing what terminology should be used instead. Those arguments tend to be way more civil discussions and don't last long, and a way better set of terminology is set.
- acdha 6y agoYeah, that’s a much better conversation because it often flushed out that the same terms were being used for things which weren’t quite the same (hot failover, read-replica, etc.) and someone who has more experience with one tool won’t think a different one works the same way.
- lr4444lr 6y agoWhat energy? It's not like we're hosting rallies or founding political parties on this.