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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 1 month ago

Lock contention Parallelism Buffer overflow

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

malloc

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Linearlizability
Serializability
Strict Serializability

Epidemic Protocol

[–] [email protected] 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
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Float Double Execute Polymorphism Shell

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

i would go with the OSPF Ritual

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
  • Bootloader
  • Filesystem
  • Reboot
  • Printer (that's the end boss)
  • sudo
  • Container
  • Virtual Machine
  • Fail over
  • Backup
  • Restore
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