I am fighting against human unreadable names in hostnames
(specifically in datacenters)
Hurrah!
and I created a little tool [1] that generates human readable and
memorizable names made
out of frequently occurring given names and surnames from the 1990 US Census
I like this idea, but I wonder if the potential for confusion or even offence is too high
for it to be workable. I'm thinking of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese_teddy_bear_blasphemy_case.
I can imagine the US names can be confusing,
Indeed, I find them confusing as a speaker of UK English. This /could/ be localised with
UK data, but I don't think we'd want to start down that road.
we can swap these with colors or other words to make it little bit
less confusing (e.g. "blue-star").
See
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/petname and
https://www.npmjs.com/package/human-readable-ids, which both use animals.
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Peter Oliver