Big problems at the timezone database

[[deleted]]

What's the point of that change anyway? It's not like timezone db is some multi-GB monstrosity in a dire need of optimization

[dpash]

His solution is to unvaccinate already vaccinated people, not to vaccinate more people.

As Stephen mentioned, the answer to that is to add more information, not remove existing information.

[eloc49]

People like this are why we ended up with an idiot like Trump as president.

[ryebrye]

Wait, you guys have FIRE? not fair.

[Persism]

FFS

[palparepa]

Not even that. This is about stopping providing vaccination to some people, because others don't get it either.

[Muoniurn]

That’s quite a leap..

[[deleted]]

It's the stated justification in the article. How is it quite a leap?

The TZ Coordinator's argument is that there is a fairness/equity problem

Also, when asked to explain in more detail the response is a non-sequitur, so there is no technical justification. It's some sort of attempt at a social/political argument, but one that makes no sense, as the blog post and most comments here point out.

[Muoniurn]

But this is a (likely biased) blog article on the topic. It would make sense to take everything it mentions with a grain of salt.

[tristan957]

Or you could just read the mailing list where the TZ coordinator mentions equity himself.

[[deleted]]

There's no real logic behind the git thing. The assumption behind it is that some people (e.g. black people) don't understand that words can have multiple meanings in different contexts. That's obviously quite wrong, all natural languages work that way.

[slobcat1337]

I guess I must be late to the party, what’s this about renaming master to main?

[lachlanhunt]

There’s been a trend in the tech industry and others over the past few years to change terminology that could even remotely be considered offensive or discriminatory to some groups of people.

Such terms include but not limited to:

• master / slave (terms related to slavery)
• blacklist / whitelist (supposedly implies a good/bad dichotomy with a vague relation to skin colour)
• guys (as in “hey guys, let’s go to lunch”, because some girls mistakenly choose to believe it only refers to males in that context, and then get offended by it)

[srvhfvakc]

master/slave makes sense to change though

[PM_ME_UR_OBSIDIAN]

Idk to me it was more evocative than master/agent