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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Linearlizability
Serializability
Strict Serializability

Epidemic Protocol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months 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?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Lock contention Parallelism Buffer overflow

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

malloc

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months 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
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Float Double Execute Polymorphism Shell

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

i would go with the OSPF Ritual

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago
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