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Computer science terms that sound like fantasy RPG abilities

I'll start:

  • Firewall
  • Virtual Memory
  • Single source of truth
  • Lossless Compression (this one sounds really powerful for some reason)

Your turn

Hard mode: Try not to include closer to domain-specific things like javascript library names

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[-] ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago
[-] phase@lemmy.8th.world 6 points 1 month ago

Feels like I should DM some Shadowrun or Cryptomancer sessions again. Just to use those.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago

wine control launches Wine's sparse control panel (most options are under winecfg). You can use it at fancy parties for fun tricks or to make someone puke.

[-] ahdok@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 month ago
[-] jesuiscequejesuis@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
[-] pixelscript@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

Easily my vote for the most unweildy named concept in software development.

It always reads like a typo of memorization. Not exactly an accident, of course. Memorize is memory + -ize, while memoize is memo + -ize, and memo is short for memorandum, which comes from memory. Both terms refer to some kind of storage and retreival of information. The similarities are deliberate.

My gripe with it is that memo in my head exclusively refers to a one-paragraph email sent to my company to notify me about something. Not remembering something. Definitely not the very specific case of linking input parameters to results of pure functions.

So we have this made-up word that looks suspiciously like an existing word that is related and means something related but is not the same thing, and the words it is actually adapted from don't mean the thing it's supposed to mean. Thanks, I hate it.

Really ought to call memoization what it what it really is. Lazy-loaded lookup tables.

[-] 8bitMage@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 month ago

Disaster Recovery sounds like a great party name.

[-] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 month ago

This just reinforces that one short of piratesoftware saying all programmers are wizards.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G7L6mQxlfVU

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
  • Pseudocode

  • Daemon Thread

  • Ruby on Rails

  • Onion Router

  • Python Commands

All leap to mind.

[-] Bonje@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Lock contention Parallelism Buffer overflow

[-] Ardyssian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Linearlizability
Serializability
Strict Serializability

Epidemic Protocol

[-] Forester@yiffit.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Truncate

Force

Purge

Decimate

Warp transform

Innumerate

Checksum

Out of memory crash

Stuck process

Orphaned process

Killed child process

Force killed child process

Child workers

[-] MechaGrima@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

malloc

Tell me that isn't the name of a demon.

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 1 month ago

I'll just throw out there the old school halt and catch fire (also the name of a really good show I need to rewatch and actually finish sometime) but also who can't love lp0 on fire?

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Null
Null Modem
Crossover Cable
Null Modem Cable with Handshake
Request to Send

Edit:
Proxy
Reverse Proxy

[-] oftheair 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
  • TWAIN
  • daemon
  • Gopher
  • Kerberos
  • Oracle
  • Patch
  • ping
  • Perl
  • Python
  • Samba
  • Swing
  • troff
  • Vim
  • zip
  • tar
  • compress
  • deflate
  • Opus
  • Flac
  • Frostwire
  • Prodigy
  • USENET
  • nano
  • pico
  • Ethernet
  • Firewire
  • Wayland
[-] exu@feditown.com 2 points 1 month ago
  • Bootloader
  • Filesystem
  • Reboot
  • Printer (that's the end boss)
  • sudo
  • Container
  • Virtual Machine
  • Fail over
  • Backup
  • Restore
[-] SirHamlin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Some fun ones here you guys can help me think of their purpose

Print spool MAC address System Time IPV4 and IPV6 Air gap Random Access Memory OS Kernal Memory Contoller South bridge North Bridge Corruption Device Manager Encryption SALT API Key System Services Device Drivers

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