Superuser
Feels like I should DM some Shadowrun or Cryptomancer sessions again. Just to use those.
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.
Boot
Memoization
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.
Disaster Recovery sounds like a great party name.
This just reinforces that one short of piratesoftware saying all programmers are wizards.
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Pseudocode
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Daemon Thread
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Ruby on Rails
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Onion Router
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Python Commands
All leap to mind.
Lock contention Parallelism Buffer overflow
Linearlizability
Serializability
Strict Serializability
Epidemic Protocol
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
malloc
Tell me that isn't the name of a demon.
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?
Null
Null Modem
Crossover Cable
Null Modem Cable with Handshake
Request to Send
Edit:
Proxy
Reverse Proxy
- 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
- Bootloader
- Filesystem
- Reboot
- Printer (that's the end boss)
- sudo
- Container
- Virtual Machine
- Fail over
- Backup
- Restore
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
RPGMemes
Humor, jokes, memes about TTRPGs