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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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[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Gateway Interplanetary filesystem Netmask Daemon Shadow copy Avatar

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[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 7 points 2 weeks ago

Volatile Memory

PEBCAK

Secrets

Cloud Run

Kubernetes

Flash

Rest endpoint

[-] nik9000@programming.dev 7 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Matombo@feddit.org 7 points 2 weeks ago
  • kernelspace
  • make all
  • upstream and downstream
[-] dragonshouter@ttrpg.network 7 points 2 weeks ago

Shielded Twisted Wire rootkit worm recursive loop MAC address( kinda like a true name i guess) Administrator control

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

Piracy wizards may teach you a homing missile spell of linking a magnet to someone and then sending a torrent of bits and pieces their way.

Lightning wizards can teach you how systematically shocking your minions should to some extent boost their efficiency in the same amount of time. They call it 'over clocking'.

And 'distributed denial of service' or 'dedossery', is a mastery of wizards who are just pissed, means sending a ton of said minions to one particular shitty tavern, ordering something and walking away en masse.

[-] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago
  • 28k modem connection sounds *
[-] phase@lemmy.8th.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] jesuiscequejesuis@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago
[-] pixelscript@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago
[-] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 weeks ago

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

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

[-] ahdok@ttrpg.network 5 points 2 weeks ago
[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
  • Pseudocode

  • Daemon Thread

  • Ruby on Rails

  • Onion Router

  • Python Commands

All leap to mind.

[-] 8bitMage@ttrpg.network 5 points 2 weeks ago

Disaster Recovery sounds like a great party name.

[-] Forester@yiffit.net 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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

[-] Ardyssian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Linearlizability
Serializability
Strict Serializability

Epidemic Protocol

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 2 weeks 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?

[-] MechaGrima@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

malloc

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

[-] Bonje@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Lock contention Parallelism Buffer overflow

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

Edit:
Proxy
Reverse Proxy

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