On: The Demise of Scientific American

[rbanffy]

Even if the readability argument was created after the fact, it still stands. It’s immediately clear what an “allow-list” means.

[ogogmad → rbanffy]

By that logic, we'll have to give up most words in English. This is entitled to the extreme. You have been arguing with me for the sake of arguing.

[rbanffy → ogogmad]

Not really. English remains the most spoken language in our circles and it's immensely helpful because of that. What we can all do is to look for better names. Master/slave can be replaced by primary/replica, publisher/subscriber and a lot of others that offer narrower meanings and, therefore, are better names.

[major--neither → rbanffy]

do you seriously not understand what you're doing?