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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] 19 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Deadlock

Priority inversion

Debugging

Source compilation

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Priority inversion sounds frighteningly subtle. You might not notice you’re under the effects of the spell because it manipulates priorities rather than bends will directly.

It still feels like your intent, but you’ve been rendered massively ineffective and it may take ages for someone to suspect magical involvement.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

That's also exactly how it works in computer science

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago
  • Cache miss
  • Bubble Sort
  • Vectorization
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Null pointer – sends the victim on a quest they can never fulfill.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Y’all might be interested in the book series by Charles Stross starting with The Atrocity Archives.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

spawn daemon

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
  • Multithread
  • Checksum Mismatch
  • Raise Exception
  • Zombie Process
  • Parallelization
  • Segmentation Fault
  • Force Commit
  • Signal Abort
  • Signal Kill
  • Balance Nodes
  • Stack Overflow
  • Core Dump
  • Reverse Tunnel
  • Dynamic Forwarding

I don't know what kind of spells these would be but I fear the wizard who knows them.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Force Merge

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Power word: Infinite Recursion

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Not necessarily PC related, but:

Uninterrupted Power Supply

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This one’s not quite CS but oh well. Spell check - After a series of unfortunate accidents at the magical university, all novel spells must be submitted to the administration in writing to ensure their safety before first casting.

Root access - Access to the Underdark druid communication network, which is transmitted through a continent-wide system of interconnected tree roots.

Command: Line - A creative use of the command spell that forces an affected creature to spend their turn forming or waiting in an orderly line.

Neural net - The system of control used by an elder brain to control and coordinate illithids under its influence.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

PowerShell

Get-Date

Read-Host

Remove-Alias

Remove-Event

Sort-Object

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
  • Master / Slave
  • Gatekeeper
  • Anti virus
  • Force push
  • Bug
  • Forever loop
  • Break condition
  • Real time operating system
  • Blockchain
  • Agility measurement index (not really an ability, but sounds like it could be art of an RPG mechanic)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Bluetooth sounds like a negative effect. Similar to using Bluetooth in real life.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Spoofing

Cryptojacking

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

BSOD - BLUE SCREEN OF DEAD ☠️

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Null pointer sounds like a powerful spell

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn't there a film about saving him?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Authentication tokens - Some heirloom jewelry or letter of permission from the local royal family used to prove you are on their mission.

Gap analysis - when your party finds a crevasse or pit and determines if they can jump across.

Buffer - party member who casts buffs, usually a bard.

Microservices - when you barter with gnomes to repair your gear.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago
  • Knapsack problem
  • Pushdown automata
  • Zero-knowledge proof
  • Late binding
  • Borrow checker
  • Channel coding
  • Tail recursion
  • Camel case
  • Double float
  • Red-black trees
  • Quaternions

Lossy compression feels like cheating:

  • Block prediction
  • Motion compensation
  • Chroma subsampling
  • Frequency space
  • Time domain
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Hyperconvergence or hypervisor.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
  • Semaphore
  • Spanning tree
  • Spinlock
  • Recursive function
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Ruby gems

Memory leaks

Layers of abstraction

Master branch

Void function

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I feel like an obvious one is missing: oracle

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Silicium Bug = A insect creature made of quartz.

Gate Array = An ancient holy temple with partially defunct portals of unknown origin.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)
  • scroll snapping
  • unit tests
  • vulnerability
  • fastboot
  • root access
  • abstraction level
  • unity framework
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Mail storm

Perhaps not that deep "cs" but still :D

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago
  • Higher order function
  • Rijndael cypher
  • Serpent cypher
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Inversion of control
Bsod
Cycle detection
Port knocking

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Bounds execption: Allows larger objects to fit in smaller containers, ritual spell effective for 1 day, can be upcast to increase amount of "overfill", some check when retrieving the item for a chance of "corruption" (small chance to retrieve a different item, or have the "overfill" become something different like have the outer edge of a bar of gold be meat)

Paralellization: High level time magic, Allows the target multiple turns to be taken simultaneously, but an equivalent cooldown afterwards (waiting for all threads or jobs to return before being able to continue), so 3 turns at once means 2 turns the target can't do anything after.

Split brain configuration: Allows focusing on multiple concentration checks/spells at once. This could also be called paralellization, or multithreaded.

Pass By Reference enchantment: requires two identical items. Once enchanted, changes to one happen to both. Room for all sorts of shenanigans.

Private field: cast on an area to prevent entry/visibility into it by unauthorized entities. Sounds inside are not audible to unauthorized entities outside of it.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Big-o and Little-o notation

FIFO and LIFO

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