I originally wrote it because I wanted to do a mass-refactoring to llvm-project to change its weird naming convention and "it will mess up git blame" was an objection that was raised.
Getting ignore-revs landed took many iterations over several months (thanks Barret!) and at the end of it I felt so drained that I didn't have the energy to do the mass refactoring I originally planned. Oh well. Maybe someday.
Yes it is new. The WHO only changed their guidance about a year ago [1]. Still, as far as I know the evidence is only associational. From the paper the article links to: "Potential for reverse causality cannot be eliminated".
I agree with you but also:
I gave my young daughter her own Android phone last week.
Google Family Link is fantastic. It prevents her from using a web browser or any other things I don't want her to do. All she can do is message people, call people & look at maps. It turns itself the phone off an hour before bedtime. She can get headlines from Google search, which I didn't expect, but it's not proven a problem since the links can't be opened.
The usage tracker shows she spent almost an hour messaging/calling yesterday, which is more than I expected, but if it gets too much then I can limit it.
One happy customer here.
I was expecting its Java based nature to be a problem but in practise found bazelisk to be remarkably self contained and fast.
Bazel has issues but Java isn't one of them.
I've helped compile guidance on inclusive language for my company. Whoever came up with this list has scored an own-goal against people who genuinely seek to make their communities more inclusive.
There are words like "slave" that actually cause offense to real people when used in a trivialising way. Accordingly, terminology around databases and the like has changed, and that's a good thing.
A laundry list of terms to be "eliminated", some of which are completely harmless makes a joke of real problems and is the opposite of helpful.
My 7 year old niece looked over my shoulder as I was writing this and said "kill!?" with a look of disgust! Disgust! I suspect that this reaction is typical of many females getting started in computing. Could it be a small part of why there are so few women in computing?
My niece gets very excited when she sees me use commands she knows like ls, cd, cat (especially cat!). The fact that she could grow up to become a DBA and won't have to talk about "dumb slaves" is something I celebrate. It's not nearly as important as <insert whataboutism here> but it's progress.
(If you or someone you know has been victimised because they're comfortable with existing terminology then I'm sorry for that, really. If you feel that changing terminology is a waste of time that is OK. If you don't want to rename your branches then no-one should give you a hard time about it.)
Good list, but the closest thing to a mass shooting after 1996 is a familicide with 7 killed [1]. It doesn't really compare to the Port Arthur massacre.
Can read the article at https://web.archive.org/web/20260409111708/https://aphyr.com...