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Can you think of any others? (lemmy.ml)

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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] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Linearlizability
Serializability
Strict Serializability

Epidemic Protocol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Float Double Execute Polymorphism Shell

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 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

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

i would go with the OSPF Ritual

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

DRY

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Bootloader
Filesystem
Reboot
Printer (that's the end boss)
sudo
Container
Virtual Machine
Fail over
Backup
Restore

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