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The docs may include "master/slave", and they don't want to get sued or bad PR, so this generic notice says "we don't like bad words but sometimes the industry uses bad words and that's unfortunate". If you click the Learn More link in the paragraph, you'll learn more.
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It's a device to identify certain kinds of people who would have a problem with less loaded language without any loss in clarity.
I would love to see some examples of Cisco documentation that ever offended anyone.
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The legal or whatever-not-technical department wanted to leave their mark.
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This will not affect your laptop, all of the models affected by this are enterprise SAS SSDs. Of course your SSD might have some other firmware bug that would eat your data, all you can do is search for the model number and see if the manufacturer has issued any notices/firmware updates.
> This will not affect your laptop That’s just your presumptive opinion, right? Edit: sorry, probably put that offensively. mikiem said about the HN drives: “These were made by SanDisk (SanDisk Optimus Lightning II) and the number of hours is between 39,984 and 40,032...” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32031428 Without knowing parts of a codebase are shared between SanDisk devices, it is hard to say that ente…
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My reaction was "If you want to write some documentation with bias-free language, just write the documentation with bias-free language." Why the need for a long paragraph explaining "Look how great and sensitive we are!" I understand, and agree with, the desire to use inclusive language, but so much of this has just devolved into performative nonsense. Edit: Thought I'd leave my original statement above up, but after…
Saying that and usernames like "DoneWithAllThat" and "hn_throwaway", yeah, it checks out.
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The docs may include "master/slave", and they don't want to get sued or bad PR, so this generic notice says "we don't like bad words but sometimes the industry uses bad words and that's unfortunate". If you click the Learn More link in the paragraph, you'll learn more.
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The docs may include "master/slave", and they don't want to get sued or bad PR, so this generic notice says "we don't like bad words but sometimes the industry uses bad words and that's unfortunate". If you click the Learn More link in the paragraph, you'll learn more.
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