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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] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It's the lower level spell to use when someone's been hit with Disintegrate. Much cheaper than True Res.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago
  • Hypervisor
  • time daemon
  • privilege escalation
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)
  • Brute Force Attack
  • Markov Chain
  • Singular Matrix
  • Pow
  • map
  • bind
  • variable name (thief's favorite)
  • Ballmer Peak
  • Fourier Transformation (2nd level: FFT)
  • Gaussian Elimination
  • Double
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Variable name - 7th level wizard spell.

For the next 24hours; nothing about the targets identity may be discovered by magical or mundane means. Anyone inquiring about the target has a plausible and consistent story placed in their mind instead; it doesn't matter what the target tells them or what they see.

Someone with the Truesight ability; will know that there is magical concealment active, but will be unable to discern any details about the target.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago
  • kernelspace
  • make all
  • upstream and downstream
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Null pointer sounds like a powerful spell

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Isn't there a film about saving him?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 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] 1 points 6 months ago

Silicium Bug = A insect creature made of quartz.

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Lossless Compression isn't actually powerful, its just an improved Lossy Compression which is admittedly terrifying to use in many cases.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So you're saying if I use it... they'll be squished and lose random pieces of themselves?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Sure, we got him back, but... ever since... he's ... off, somehow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)
  • rowhammer
  • rainbow table
  • global interpreter lock
  • race condition (atrocity?)
  • core dump
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

rainbow table

You win the thread. That is straight up out the old school Player's Handbook.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Asynchronous Threads

Port Forward (this one just sounds like a dope place)

Remote Host

Domain Controller

Immutable Type

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago
  • Big endian (a very powerful NPC)
  • Hardware abstraction (a spell that makes all the stuff disappears)
  • Obfuscation (invisibility spell)
  • Multiplexing (ability to cast several spells as one)
  • Dangling reference (when wrong information is given by somebody)
  • Curiously Recurring Template Pattern (basically crop circles)
  • Pure virtual method (anything somebody learned but will never use)
  • Diamond inheritance (when someone in the party dies and all of their money is spread accross the others)

Can you tell what's my job?

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