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Deadlock
Priority inversion
Debugging
Source compilation
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.
That's also exactly how it works in computer science
- Cache miss
- Bubble Sort
- Vectorization
Null pointer – sends the victim on a quest they can never fulfill.
Y’all might be interested in the book series by Charles Stross starting with The Atrocity Archives.
spawn daemon
- 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.
Force Merge
Power word: Infinite Recursion
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.
- 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)
Bluetooth sounds like a negative effect. Similar to using Bluetooth in real life.
Spoofing
Cryptojacking
Private Void NULL
Null pointer sounds like a powerful spell
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.
- 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
Hyperconvergence or hypervisor.
- Semaphore
- Spanning tree
- Spinlock
- Recursive function
Ruby gems
Memory leaks
Layers of abstraction
Master branch
Void function
Silicium Bug = A insect creature made of quartz.
Gate Array = An ancient holy temple with partially defunct portals of unknown origin.
- scroll snapping
- unit tests
- vulnerability
- fastboot
- root access
- abstraction level
- unity framework
Mail storm
Perhaps not that deep "cs" but still :D
- Higher order function
- Rijndael cypher
- Serpent cypher
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.
Big-o and Little-o notation
FIFO and LIFO