I need a pair of words that people wont obviously pick one over the other, a good (but non serious example) is "kiki" vs "boba", a bad example are "a" vs "b" Thoughts on things that are not "kiki" vs "boba"
sa@chaos.social
replied 12 Jun 2026 14:21 +0000
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@benjojo blue/green? left/right? if this is for some kind of survey, can't you use a/b but randomise it to cancel out preference for one or the other? i'm sure there's a statistically sound way to rule out bias. (but i don't know it)
benjojo
replied 12 Jun 2026 15:57 +0000
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benjojo
replied 12 Jun 2026 15:58 +0000
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@sa for context, we are trying to name two host names, that we want to avoid someone picking one over the other (ideally the software randomises it, but we know some people will pick one manually, we want those people not pick a "obvious" same one)
Tenzer@s.waq.dk
replied 12 Jun 2026 16:07 +0000
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@benjojo @sa I use something like https://github.com/dustinkirkland/python-petname for that, if you have a cluster of database nodes and any of them can be the leader, having an animal name makes the name more memorable while not imparting preference for any of them.
benjojo
replied 12 Jun 2026 16:45 +0000
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tmcfarlane@toot.comm..
replied 12 Jun 2026 16:53 +0000
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edml@social.tchncs.d..
replied 12 Jun 2026 14:16 +0000
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x_cli@infosec.exchan..
replied 12 Jun 2026 14:17 +0000
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penguin42@mastodon.o..
replied 12 Jun 2026 14:26 +0000
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@benjojo Maybe pick some of the metasyntactics; hmm, 'corge' and 'grault' ? (which I didn't know)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable
theraspb@aus.social
replied 12 Jun 2026 14:39 +0000
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jtk@infosec.exchange
replied 12 Jun 2026 15:41 +0000
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