Humor, jokes, memes about TTRPGs
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Hard mode: Try not to include closer to domain-specific things like javascript library names
I always found "The Perceptron" to have such a badass name…. 😅 (Math part was annoying though…)
Lossless Compression isn't actually powerful, its just an improved Lossy Compression which is admittedly terrifying to use in many cases.
So you're saying if I use it... they'll be squished and lose random pieces of themselves?
Disaster Recovery sounds like a great party name.
Oomkiller
Volatile Memory
PEBCAK
Secrets
Cloud Run
Kubernetes
Flash
Rest endpoint
Shielded Twisted Wire rootkit worm recursive loop MAC address( kinda like a true name i guess) Administrator control
Guru Meditation
Boot
This thread feels like someone half remembering playing technomancers in shadowrun.
wine control launches Wine's sparse control panel (most options are under winecfg). You can use it at fancy parties for fun tricks or to make someone puke.
Null
Null Modem
Crossover Cable
Null Modem Cable with Handshake
Request to Send
Edit:
Proxy
Reverse Proxy
Piracy wizards may teach you a homing missile spell of linking a magnet to someone and then sending a torrent of bits and pieces their way.
Lightning wizards can teach you how systematically shocking your minions should to some extent boost their efficiency in the same amount of time. They call it 'over clocking'.
And 'distributed denial of service' or 'dedossery', is a mastery of wizards who are just pissed, means sending a ton of said minions to one particular shitty tavern, ordering something and walking away en masse.
Feels like I should DM some Shadowrun or Cryptomancer sessions again. Just to use those.
This just reinforces that one short of piratesoftware saying all programmers are wizards.
Pseudocode
Daemon Thread
Ruby on Rails
Onion Router
Python Commands
All leap to mind.
Memoization
Easily my vote for the most unweildy named concept in software development.
It always reads like a typo of memorization. Not exactly an accident, of course. Memorize is memory + -ize, while memoize is memo + -ize, and memo is short for memorandum, which comes from memory. Both terms refer to some kind of storage and retreival of information. The similarities are deliberate.
My gripe with it is that memo in my head exclusively refers to a one-paragraph email sent to my company to notify me about something. Not remembering something. Definitely not the very specific case of linking input parameters to results of pure functions.
So we have this made-up word that looks suspiciously like an existing word that is related and means something related but is not the same thing, and the words it is actually adapted from don't mean the thing it's supposed to mean. Thanks, I hate it.
Really ought to call memoization what it what it really is. Lazy-loaded lookup tables.
Superuser
Lock contention Parallelism Buffer overflow
malloc
Tell me that isn't the name of a demon.