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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

  • xtrapoletariat@beehaw.org
    2·
    41 minutes ago
    • 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
  • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
    9·
    2 hours ago

    Artificers use assembly language to cast their spells.

    1st level wild shape ability byte.
    4th level wild shape ability megabyte.
    8th level wild shape ability gigabyte.
    9th level wild shape ability terabyte

    Bonus 0th level ability: nibble

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
    1·
    46 minutes ago

    Rust - rusts metal. When miscast, makes the target a crab of some sort

    Go - Same as “command” spell

    Regular Expression - makes any cryptic message understandable in a language you know

    Transfer Protocol - allows the teleportation of one packet to a willing host

    Read Only - cast on a book, scroll or any other thing with written words. Ensures no further words can be written. No scribbles or any sort of artwork will stick either. The object can still be destroyed

    Icon - For a short period, the target of the spell becomes a beloved, or hated, icon of a subject. IE: beloved icon of beauty, hated icon of music.

    Master Boot Record - this magical list contains all the master level boots ever created and their current whereabouts

    Partition Table - allows any object with at least 2 flat sides to be cut into any shape

    • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
      3·
      2 hours ago

      Vim (clearly a buff)

      That’s some grand wizard who’s made some named spells. Vim’s Inescapable Hut being the most known one.

  • Courant d'air 🍃@jlai.lu
    18·
    4 hours 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?