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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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[–] Ardyssian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Linearlizability
Serializability
Strict Serializability

Epidemic Protocol

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 10 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?

[–] MechaGrima@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

malloc

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

[–] Bonje@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Lock contention Parallelism Buffer overflow

[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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
[–] muzzle@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Float Double Execute Polymorphism Shell

[–] SirHamlin@lemmy.world 2 points 10 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

[–] ajikeshi@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

i would go with the OSPF Ritual

[–] exu@feditown.com 1 points 10 months ago
  • Bootloader
  • Filesystem
  • Reboot
  • Printer (that's the end boss)
  • sudo
  • Container
  • Virtual Machine
  • Fail over
  • Backup
  • Restore
[–] topherclay@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago
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