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

Lock contention Parallelism Buffer overflow

[-] 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

[-] 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 1 week ago

malloc

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

[-] muzzle@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

Float Double Execute Polymorphism Shell

[-] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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
[-] ajikeshi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

i would go with the OSPF Ritual

[-] SirHamlin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks 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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