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Re:Remove or replace usages of “sanity” (Wikimedia) by mboerwink on Monday November 22, 2021 @03:10AM (#29304012)
I don't care for some of the chosen replacements - "sanity check" and "double check" are not equivalent phrases to me. The only linked justification I could find was inclusivenaming.org, whose Tier-2 list provided better alternatives like "confidence check" and "coherence check". Changing word choice risks losing subtleties in the original meaning, and I'm not sure it worked out this time.
Re:Remove or replace usages of “sanity” (Wikimedia) by beardyw on Monday November 22, 2021 @04:38AM (#29304565)
My definition: check for conditions which are so unlikely we can consider them to not be valid.

Unlikelyness check?

Re:Remove or replace usages of “sanity” (Wikimedia) by clankyclanker on Monday November 22, 2021 @09:45AM (#29306777)
Impossibility check?