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.

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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 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want to update the web app but war never changes.

[–] lowleveldata 6 points 1 year ago

hmm... have you tried nuking everything? That might help

[–] JackbyDev 1 points 1 year ago

No, because it is an abbreviation for web archive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's a project I'm following where an opcode called "SUICIDE" (which deleted the program it was triggered from) was renamed "SELFDESTRUCT" because people were bothered by the reference to self-harm. I personally considered it a waste of effort, but at least in that case it was really just a matter of changing some strings in the documentation and having compilers accept either label for it, since the opcode itself didn't change is value.

The opcode is likely to be entirely deprecated soon anyway, which IMO makes it even more of a waste of time. Oh well.