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Re: D1: Our SQL database

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No one really means anything ill and this political correctness madness needs to stop.

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Because it's not painful to others and intent always matters.

These words are everywhere in the language; you're not really changing anything with these antics other than derailing the subject to appease those who assume offense on behalf of an imagined group of people that can't distinguish context.

Re: D1: Our SQL database

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post #159

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No one really means anything ill and this political correctness madness needs to stop.

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People want to change Chess to red/blue. I'll continue to play with white and black pieces.

This is a slippery slope of destroying the society by being hyper sensitive about things that no one really means. Absolutely hate this and fills me with disgust that people obssess over this kind of petty things.

Life is beautiful. Enjoy it. Be kind to others that have zero intention of offending you.

Re: D1: Our SQL database

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While the blog does use "primary", people are saying "master"/replica, much like how redis refers to their architecture[0]. In fact, ctrl-f "slave" only brings up your comment. 0: https://redis.io/docs/manual/replication/

"Master", however, is as prevalent as "primary" in this discussion "slave" is the implied counterpart.

It would be better if we completely abandoned that terminology.

Re: D1: Our SQL database

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post #159

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No one really means anything ill and this political correctness madness needs to stop.

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I think the question is, is it painful or harmful? The early discussions only seem to reference its potential problems, with the 2014 Drupal repo[0]'s reasoning being "those terms may carry racially charged meanings to users", and the 2018 Python bug[1] referencing "for diversity reasons". Maybe there are scholarly papers on this issue?

0: https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692

1: https://bugs.python.org/issue34605

Re: D1: Our SQL database

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post #159

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People want to change Chess to red/blue. I'll continue to play with white and black pieces. This is a slippery slope of destroying the society by being hyper sensitive about things that no one really means. Absolutely hate this and fills me with disgust that people obssess over this kind of petty things. Life is beautiful. Enjoy it. Be kind to others that have zero intention of offending you.

The person you're replying to is very kind and considerate.

They're not assuming people using the problematic terminology do so with the intention to harm. They are, however, mindful of its negative effects, hence the gentle reminder.

Re: D1: Our SQL database

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What write throughput and latency can we expect from this database?

Are there any limitations, for example on the number of tables or size of the database?

Re: D1: Our SQL database

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post #165

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While the blog does use "primary", people are saying "master"/replica, much like how redis refers to their architecture[0]. In fact, ctrl-f "slave" only brings up your comment. 0: https://redis.io/docs/manual/replication/

"Master", however, is as prevalent as "primary" in this discussion "slave" is the implied counterpart. It would be better if we completely abandoned that terminology.

It wouldn't be better, it would be arbitrary

Re: D1: Our SQL database

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post #159

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No one really means anything ill and this political correctness madness needs to stop.

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It is painful to me and many others to switch from innocuous technical terms like master/slave, man in the middle attacks, motherboard, mount, whitelist, blacklist, etc, to satisfy the whims of a pedantic minority.

But I know my opinion doesn’t matter to those people anyway.

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