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Re:Saying “All Lives Matter” to Siri Now Redirects You to Bl... by ardy42 on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @01:54PM (#23468978)
> I suppose I'll just start using definitions instead: e.g., "the list of allowed IPs".

That's pretty verbose. How about acceptlist and denylist (or blocklist)?

For "master/slave" maybe "boss/worker" would be a good substitute?

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Re:Saying “All Lives Matter” to Siri Now Redirects You to Bl... by downerending on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @02:22PM (#23469207)
In principle, sure. In practice, when a junior wonders why they can't find anything useful when they google or grep for "acceptlist", then what?
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Re:Saying “All Lives Matter” to Siri Now Redirects You to Bl... by ardy42 on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @02:47PM (#23469461)
> In practice, when a junior wonders why they can't find anything useful when they google or grep for "acceptlist", then what?

Lots of words have synonyms, so that's not a real problem. Sooner or later the search results will catch up, and in the mean time it's always an option for a junior developer to ask a question or figure things out themselves by looking at the implementation.

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Re:Saying “All Lives Matter” to Siri Now Redirects You to Bl... by downerending on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @02:58PM (#23469590)
Not sure what to say to that. For normal corporate use, this would be standard Dilbert-esque silliness. In safety-critical situations, it would be madness.
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