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mleku | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 🤬 one source of truth

this is some kind of meme to erase "authoritative" from people's vocabularies so we can't say "authoritarian"

it's either authoritative or canonical, i prefer canonical because this is not implicitly dictatorship
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mleku | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 authoritative makes sense from the perspective of it being of your authorship
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au9913 | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It's quite litterally a technical term to imply a singular place that is the original data set. IE if you write it in git but then you have a people that injects something into a template, often an artifact is created which is not the the source AND at that moment you have multiple sources of truth, but one is the source. 

Nothing to do with dictators