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[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Because there are words that have less violent associations that can still capture the relationship sought to be described.

[Stop using Nazi, war]

Those aren't used for computing though. And, yeah, I think if we did we probably should. Like if terms related to genocide were used for stopping a lot of processes at once that would be pretty weird to me.

[death]

Kill is used to refer to stopping processes and that's probably where the line is in my opinion. It feels very different to me to say "kill a process" versus "genocide a group of processes"

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

We do use war. It's a common package in Java. Should we rename that because it might make people uncomfortable when we say "We are going to deploy the war tomorrow"? Why can't we just accept the fact that words have multiple meanings?