one-pump

one-pump (third-person singular simple present one-pumps, present participle one-pumping, simple past and past participle one-pumped)

one-pumps (present singular third-person)
one-pumping (participle present)
one-pumped (participle past)
one-pumped (past)

The arrival of season 4 also saw the arrival of the much prophesied comets to coincide with the superhero theme, which ultimately meant just different skins to wear while a young child one-pumps you.

2018 May 14, Jimmy Donnellan, “Fortnite Season 4 Drags The Focus Away From Tilted Towers”, in Cultured Vultures, archived from the original on 2022-11-02

After getting one-pumped by an enemy sitting inside of a build in the top six players of a Solo match, Tfue voiced his ire about skill-based matchmaking in Fortnite—and it was an R-rated display.

2020 March 6, Scott Duwe, “Tfue sounds off against skill-based matchmaking in Fortnite”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 2022-07-04

Pump Shotguns are notoriously fickle weapons to carry. You have the ability to one-pump someone, while also being completely let down by it in the next breath with an unexpectedly weak shot.

2020 March 16, Jacob Hale, “Did Fortnite secretly change Pump Shotguns in Season 2?”, in Dexerto, archived from the original on 2022-08-15

When you get knocked down by a single pump shotgun shot, you'll be one-pumped. It's used to describe that all it took was a single pump shotgun bullet to take out your remaining health points.]

[2020 November 28, Gökhan Çakır, “Common Fortnite terms and their meanings”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 2023-05-21

In the video, the policeman starts building and cranking 90s while editing through and eventually catches up to the player and one pumps them, eliminating them from the match.

2022 June 29, Zachary Roberts, “Fortnite meets Subway Surfer in the weirdest viral video”, in Sportskeeda, archived from the original on 2023-03-20

(transitive, video games, slang, Fortnite) To kill someone in one shot with a pump action shotgun.


one-pump

No more one-pumps

2018 June 6, Austen Goslin, “Fortnite's shotguns are getting a major nerf”, in Polygon, archived from the original on 2023-02-01, byline

How can you spot a Fortniter at Starbucks? / They order everything with one pump.]

[2021, Brian Boone, An Unofficial Joke Book for Fortniters: 800 All-New Explosively Hilarious Jokes for Fans of Fortnite, New York, N.Y: Sky Pony Press

Gone are the "one-pump" days as the all-new Fortnite Shotgun nerf has ended up making the weapon class less appealing. Without powerful sniper rifles and shotguns, players could end up stuck in an endless loop of a spray meta that almost everyone dislikes.

2022 May 3, shwetangparthsarthy, “After sniper rifles, Fortnite nerf ruins every shotgun in the game”, in Sportskeeda, archived from the original on 2022-05-25

Fortnite Stops The 'One Pump' Shotgun, Unvaults Dirt Bikes

2023 April 11, Claire Jackson, “(headline)”, in Kotaku, archived from the original on 2023-05-04

(video games, slang, Fortnite) An instance of one-pumping.


carry-lookahead

A simpler scheme is to connect the carry-ins and carry-outs of the units in a ripple chain. This approach is most common in chip design because the wiring for the carry-lookahead tree is hard to design and area-consuming.

2004, Wayne Wolf, FPGA-Based System Design

(programming) A command that checks whether there will be a carry (bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation) for the current digit in an ongoing addition operation.


StarCrafter

Insurrection’s claims of 102 new multiplayer maps immediately started a bad taste forming in my mouth, but fear not intrepid Starcrafters, this is one non[-]official expansion pack that doesn’t deserve to be melted in a vat of boiling fast food fat.

1998 October, Pete Sharpe, “Insurrection: Starcraft Add-on”, in PC PowerPlay, number 29, page 80

On the other hand, newcomers or novice StarCrafters should polish their skills with the original before taking on the expansion’s missions.

1999 February 12, James Bottorff, “‘Brood War’ expands ‘StarCraft’ universe”, in Weekend (The Cincinnati Enquirer, 158th year, number 309), volume 6, number 8, page 32

StarCraft: Battle Chest […] For hard-core StarCrafters only: this collection includes all the games in the series.

1999 December, “incite TOP 20”, in incite, Computec Media USA, Inc., →ISSN, page 24

With a little investigation, Ted learned his opponent was a professional Starcrafter, whose play online is sponsored — to the tune of 100,000 American big ones — by gaming companies and magazines aimed at gaming fans.

2000 May 12, Rosa Harris-Adler, “The games we play with a Net”, in Ottawa Citizen, page F4

The Korean scene draws foreigners as well. Daniel “Rekrul” Schreiber, one of America’s best StarCrafters, moved from Ohio to Seoul to play professionally, but then found greater success there playing poker.

2005 July 26, Allen Varney, “Gamer Nation”, in The Escapist

2006 February, Darren Gladstone, “Starcrafters; Is the classic RTS ready for a comeback?”, in Computer Gaming World, number 259, page 1

Naturally, one of the main announcements to come from Blizzard was that the Xel’Naga, an ancient group responsible for the evolution of the Protoss and Zerg races, would feature prominently in the new tale. This led many StarCrafters to believe that the Xel’Naga would feature as a fourth playable faction, but this has been denied by the development team.

2008 April, “StarCraft II”, in GamesTM, number 69, page 54

What if a high-ranked Counter-Strike clan hooked up with some of those crazy Korean StarCrafters?

2008 October, George Stewart, “Two great tastes that taste great together”, in Electronic Gaming Monthly, number 233, page 20

Real-time strategy geeks measure their micromanagement skills in APMs—actions per minute. Pro StarCrafters can handle 400 APMs, and some suspected that StarCraft II would slow down the action so players could enjoy the lush scenery.

2010 June, Chris Remo, “StarCraft Wars”, in Wired, page 100

Diehard Starcrafters will be delighted […]

2010 July 31, David Hutchinson, Douglas Rankine, “Games”, in The Times, page 23

Games such as Starcraft and Counter Strike have massive followings, with StarCraft even becoming a professional sport in Korea. Matches are telecast on TV, and some events attract upto 1.2 lakh people in attendance! Starcrafters are media celebrities out there, with one certain player, Lim Yo-Hwan having a fan club of more than half a million members.

2011 November, Sriram Gurunathan, “Gamers are social animals”, in Digit, volume 11, number 11, page 38

[MIKE] LAMOND: […] The protons are trying to get back to his base, force field to protect his army. One StarCrafter (unintelligible) take it out. Now, the immortal really needs to be focused on firing down the... / [SCOTT] SIMON: Wow. Now, Mr. Lamond, a lot of people find baseball jargon incomprehensible. What were you just saying there? / LAMOND: Essentially in that clip, StarCraft II, there is basically two sides.

2012 February 25, “As Video Gaming Goes Pro, Viewers Pay Up”, in NPR, archived from the original on 2012-02-27

Pro StarCrafters need insane reflexes (some manage more than 300 actions per minute) and possibly an innate grasp of Sun Tzu’s theories.

2013 March, Bo Moore, “Tzu Can Play That Game”, in Wired, volume 21, number 3, page 68

A player of the StarCraft franchise of video games.


modified Harvard architecture

en-noun

modified Harvard architecture (countable and uncountable, plural modified Harvard architectures)

computer architecture
computer architecture

(computing) A variation of the Harvard computer architecture, allowing the contents of the instruction memory to be accessed as data.


RARP

Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
w:Reverse Address Resolution Protocol

(Internet) Initialism of Reverse Address Resolution Protocol.


self-play

Self-play was used by the AlphaZero program to improve its performance in the games of chess, shogi and go.

(machine learning) A technique for improving the performance of reinforcement learning agents by having them play against themselves.


Bitap algorithm

Levenshtein distance
Levenshtein distance

(computing theory) An algorithm that determines whether a given text contains a substring that is "approximately equal" to a given pattern, defined in terms of Levenshtein distance, and working by means of bitmasks.


Baeza-Yates-Gonnet algorithm

the Baeza-Yates-Gonnet algorithm (canonical)

Named after Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Gaston Gonnet.

(computing theory) Synonym of Bitap algorithm


Canny edge detection

(computer graphics) The use of the Canny edge detector algorithm.


Canny edge detector

Canny edge detector (plural Canny edge detectors)

calculus of variations
calculus of variations

(computer graphics) An operator that uses a multistage algorithm, involving the calculus of variations, to detect the edges in an image.


eco round

(video games) A round of a game in which the player economizes on buying weapons, equipment, etc. so as to stockpile money for future rounds.


multidispatch

From multi- + dispatch, as a shorter form of multiple dispatch.

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

function overloading
function overloading#English

(object-oriented programming) Synonym of function overloading


outerthickness

(graph theory) The minimum number of outerplanar subgraphs which a given graph can decompose into.


usernamed

A few weeks ago a reader usernamed Sparling made his entrance into the newsgroup with a post: Duncan could kick Conner's a**!!!. He made some people laugh, some people angry and certainly got noticed. Since then he's settled down quite a bit.

1996 June 5, Jeri Jo Thomas, “Methos could easily kick Sparling's”, in alt.tv.highlander (Usenet)

To make use of the home directory shares, your Windows usernames and passwords must match up with their counterparts on the Linux server. For instance, to use the root user share, you must have a root user with the same password on your Windows computer. (If you create a usernamed root on your Windows computer, it will have no special privileges.)

1999, Paul G. Sery, Eric Harper, Red Hat® Linux® 6 in Small Business, Foster City, CA: M&T Books, page 187

(computing) Having a (specified) username.


reinforcement learning

Reinforcement learning can be seen as somewhere between supervised and unsupervised learning. The learning system receives a feedback for its actions, but it is not provided with examples to learn from.

2010, Lutz Frommberger, Qualitative Spatial Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning, Springer Science & Business Media, page 10

Let us look more deeply at reinforcement learning, to see what it means to learn from our own actions. Reinforcement learning is a field in which an agent learns by interacting with an environment.

2022, Aske Plaat, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Springer Nature, page 3

(machine learning) A type of explorative learning via feedback in a simulated environment.

RLHF

reinforcement learning from human feedback


stochastic parrot

stochastic parrot (plural stochastic parrots)

Coined by American linguist Emily M. Bender in 2021 as a reminder of the limitations of language models, see quotations.

coinage

[…] an LM is a system for haphazardly stitching together sequences of linguistic forms it has observed in its vast training data, according to probabilistic information about how they combine, but without any reference to meaning: a stochastic parrot.

2021 March 3, Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, Shmargaret Shmitchell, “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜”, in Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, ACM, →DOI, pages 610–623

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(machine learning, derogatory) A language model that uses artificial intelligence to generate seemingly coherent or contextually relevant text but does not truly understand the meaning of the language it is processing


wikiphilosophy

Apart from writing encyclopedia pages, The Cunctator loved to discuss Wikipedia and its policies. He spoke for anarchy (or at least an absence of hierarchy), eventualism (Wikipedia will get there in the end; his pseudonym means 'the delayer') and inclusionism (the wikiphilosophy whose motto could be 'let there be more articles').

2009, Andrew Dalby, The World and Wikipedia: How We Are Editing Reality, Draycott, Somerset: Siduri Books, page 121

(Wikimedia jargon) A philosophy or system of thought pertaining to the editing of Wikipedia.


wiki crack

Then one night he corrected an error in an article about Jewish holidays. You can do that?! It was his first inhalation of Wiki crack. He became one of Wikipedia's earliest registered users and wrote his first article—on Muckleshoot, a Washington State Indian tribe. Since then, he has made more than 16,000 contributions.

2006, Daniel H. Pink, “The Book Ends Here”, in The Best of Technology Writing 2006, Ann Arbor, M.I.: University of Michigan Press, page 109

Sites like Wikipedia are more in the middle, perhaps. Maybe people are drawn in by one initial topic and discover wikicrack and turn to a wider range of articles. (I know I have devoted a lot of time to topics I don't actually care about simply because I was wikiaddicted.)

2007 September 30, Brianna Laugher, “[Wiki World] a metric for community”, in Google Groups (Wiki World), archived from the original on 2023-06-11

Finishing the 3,000 entries kicked off something in Ramsey's pleasure center. He had his first whiff of "wiki-crack," the irreverent jargon Wikipedians have used to describe their addiction. So he set out on the next task—adding 33,832 city articles to Wikipedia.

2009, Andrew Lih, The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, page 101

There is something fundamental, almost primordial at work. Some Wikipedians refer to it as "wiki-crack." It's the rush of dopamine that seems to hit the brain's pleasure center when you make a smart edit and it appears instantly in a Wikipedia article.]

[2014 October 19, Walter Isaacson, “You Can Look It Up: The Wikipedia Story”, in The Daily Beast, archived from the original on 2022-10-14

(Wikimedia jargon, humorous) A notional drug, likened to crack cocaine, supposed to cause individuals to become addicted to editing Wikipedia.


eventualism

For some, eventualism is a fancy name for "passing the buck." It is being lackadaisical in doing something right now to fix things. For professional writers, editors, and academics, leaving things in a half-baked state was a clear departure from their comfort zone. But given the masses of wiki, Slashdot, Usenet, and open source software veterans, eventualism remained the prevailing attitude, at least in the early days.

2009, Andrew Lih, The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, page 121

(Wikimedia jargon) A wikiphilosophy which emphasizes the importance of an article's value in the distant future.


GOFAI

Coined by John Haugeland in his 1985 book Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea.

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence#English

Acronym of good old-fashioned artificial intelligence (“a rule-based or logic-based form of symbolic AI”).


Zeddy

From zed + -y, from the pronunciation of the first letter of the name.

This was never released by Software Project and with it being developed late in the machine's commercial life, not many Zeddy users knew about it, but it was uncovered thanks to the powers of the Internet.

2021, Darren Randle, Popular Retro (volume 2, issue 1, page 8)

(computing, slang) The Sinclair ZX81, an early British home computer.


mailbase

From Mailbase, the name of a specific system for this purpose founded in 1989 and used in UK higher education and research.

When you join a mailbase, keep all the information you receive from the administrator about leaving the group. You may find in a short while that you are inundated with email of no interest to you, […]

1998, Pat Maier, Using Technology in Teaching & Learning, page 119

The development of mass telephone one-to-one communication seemed to have diminished the social custom of handwritten letters. Yet the Internet with email communications facilities has revived the social habit of written though electronic correspondence. Forums and mailbases lead to instant correspondent broadcasts within specific interest areas.

1999, Tim Crook, Radio Drama: Theory and Practice, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, page 49

Some of the above are 'virtual collegaues', members of the Victoria 19th-Century British Culture & Society mailbase, and I would once again like to record my thanks both to the listmembers and to Patrick Leary, who as listmaster creates and maintains both the content and the atmosphere of this haven of scholarly collegiality.

2011, Judith Flanders, The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime, London: HarperPress, pages 467–468

(Internet) Synonym of listserv (“electronic mailing list”).


listmember

Coordinate term: listmaster

On an academic list, one listmember responded to a discussion of whether e-messages should be more formal and carefully edited by affirming the pleasures of "reading between the lines" and "seeing a personality profile" emerge from a history of several postings.

2000, Lynn Worsham, Sidney I. Dobrin, Gary A. Olson, editors, The Kinneavy Papers: Theory and the Study of Discourse, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, page 256

In addition, it is, in most cases, not possible to confirm if members are sending side-posts, i.e. messages directly send to other listmembers.

2007, Theo Hug, Didactics of Microlearning, page 161

(Internet) A recipient of messages from a listserv.


soft real-time

(computing) Being or relating to a system that is ideally real-time but in practice can tolerate some latency that only reduces the quality of service.


listmaster

Coordinate term: listmember

If an account subscribed to your mailing list ceases to exist, you'll get e-mail to the listmaster for that specific mailing list after every single post that goes out to the list, telling you that particular account no longer exists. You'll definitely want to remove this user from the list.

1996, Dee-Ann LeBlanc, Running a Perfect Internet Site With Linux, Indianapolis, I.N.: Que, page 272

The script will first ask you to submit an address for the list server's administrator, or "listmaster."

(Internet) A person responsible for operating a listserv.


nerdity test

(Internet, informal) An online purity test to gauge the taker's nerdiness.


bottom-poster

Some argue that bottom posters should be courteous enough to snip quoted material such that one shouldn't have to scroll down to get to their response. Not only doesn't that happen, but if everyone snipped appropriately there would be no functional difference between posting methods.

2002 September 23, Paul Gustafson, “Posting Etiquette”, in sci.astro.amateur (Usenet)

One of the great religious schisms on the internet is between the 'top-posters' and the 'bottom-posters', who have different views on where in the message one should add one's own remarks when replying.

2003, Peter Christian, The Genealogist's Internet, 2nd edition, London: The National Archives, page 211

Please learn how to become a bottom poster instead of a top poster.

2013 May 15, Jason, “Planned Parenthood targets black women”, in alt.abortion (Usenet)

(Internet, dated) Someone who bottom-posts.


bottom-post

If you don't like to read bottom posts - don't. No one is going to change so let it be.

2001 October 4, Don D., “SkriptKiddie Trying something”, in rec.travel.cruises (Usenet)

(Internet, dated) A post on an online forum whose contents are placed below a quoted message which is being replied to.


bottom-post

en-verb

bottom-post (third-person singular simple present bottom-posts, present participle bottom-posting, simple past and past participle bottom-posted)

bottom-posts (present singular third-person)
bottom-posting (participle present)
bottom-posted (participle past)
bottom-posted (past)

The proper netiquette on this list is to "bottom post," which means that you reply to a previous poster's comments after the original comment.

2004, Rickford Grant, Linux for Non-Geeks, San Francisco, C.A.: No Starch Press, page 294

(transitive, intransitive, Internet, dated) To make a bottom-post.


MLIR

MLIR enables optimizations across various levels of abstractions from high-level optimizations with better control-flow representation to low-level compilers and executors that generate target machine code.

2022, Andres Rodriguez, Deep Learning Systems: Algorithms, Compilers, and Processors for Large-Scale Production, Springer Nature, page 195

intermediate representation
w:intermediate representation

(software compilation) Initialism of multilevel intermediate representation.


copy-paster

Yes, so why bother? Making things difficult for copy-pasters is just lame. If I want your image I will get it regardless of what crappy code you write.

2003 October 8, ...JAG, “Re: Website question”, in rec.juggling (Usenet)

Eich’s purpose in creating JavaScript was to give Web developers— not known for their technical prowess — an easy way to add bits of interactivity to pages. The idea was to copy scripts from other pages and tweak them a bit. In this respect he succeeded admirably: many JavaScript developers (including myself) started out as copy-pasters.

2007, Peter-Paul Koch, ppk on JavaScript, Berkeley, CA: New Riders, page 17


side-post

Probably analogous to top-post and bottom-post.

Enough ecchiness from you. It's a cute shoujo story, which I explain in more detail in a side post.

2001 July 9, L. Gerholz, “[FANFIC]Father's Day at Ohtori”, in alt.fan.utena (Usenet)

As I noted in a side post, teranews doesn't seem to like crossposting.

2007 September 14, Rumpelstiltskin, “Re: Swear him in !”, in soc.senior.issues (Usenet)

In addition, it is in most cases not possible to confirm if members are sending side-posts i.e. messages directly send to other listmembers. The phenomenon of lurkers sending side-posts is described by Katz, who analyses differences between public and private reactions to his postings and articles (Katz, 1998).

2007, Theo Hug, Didactics of Microlearning, Münster […]: Waxmann, page 161

(Internet, dated) A message sent privately to a single member of a listserv.


side-post

side-post (third-person singular simple present side-posts, present participle side-posting, simple past and past participle side-posted)

side-posts (present singular third-person)
side-posting (participle present)
side-posted (participle past)
side-posted (past)

You even are so far consumed with your self-importance and propensity to bend others to the way you want them to post by telling me that I am now doing the heinous 'top-posting'. If I could figure a way to side post, you would complain about that, too.

2003 May 15, Cass, “RV Hookups and WA state RV Regulatoins”, in alt.rv (Usenet)

Some lurkers side-post: Several participants said they made connections to individuals outside the online groups. These connections are a valid form of communication and have value for the individuals and thus the group as a whole.

2012, Christopher Lueg, Danyel Fisher, From Usenet to CoWebs, London: Springer, page 126

Lurkers avoid contributing to the chaos and information overload often found in communities, and, by side-posting or contacting individuals directly instead, they are engaging in pro-social and thoughtful altruistic behaviour.

2016, Giuseppe Riva, Brenda K. Wiederhold, Pietro Cipresso, The Psychology of Social Networking, volume 1, Warsaw, Berlin: De Gruyter, →DOI, page 163

(intransitive, Internet, dated) To send a side-post.


horizon effect

From the idea that the computer cannot look beyond its horizon (limit of one's knowledge; boundary or threshold).

gloss

(artificial intelligence, games) A problem in artificial intelligence whereby a computer can only search a small portion of the possible states in a game, and thus may make a detrimental move because it cannot search far enough to see its error.


alloc

en-verb

alloc (third-person singular simple present alloc's, present participle alloc'ing, simple past and past participle alloc'ed)

alloc's (present singular third-person)
alloc'ing (participle present)
alloc'ed (participle past)
alloc'ed (past)

If you simply use alloc then init, you can't check for the existence of the object before it gets alloc'ed. If you use a single +new method (or something similar), then you can check for the existence of the object before it gets allocated in memory.

1994 June 12, Eric M Hermanson, “Re: +new vs. +alloc -init”, in comp.sys.next.programmer (Usenet)

Alloc enough space for any possible padding.

2001, John Viega, Gary R. McGraw, Building Secure Software

Among the things this analyzer is capable of detecting is simple memory leaks. For example, it can find an object you alloc'ed but forgot to release.

2011, Stephen G. Kochan, Programming in Objective-C, page 413

Could not alloc enough memory

2012, Helmut J. Helpenstein, CAD Geometry Data Exchange Using STEP, page 86

Generally, the data ins the stack should not be changed, a simple packing would choose to push such information into the stack (to alloc a new space on the stack).


VFS

virtual file system
w:virtual file system

(computing) Initialism of virtual file system.


GLR

(software compilation) Initialism of generalized LR.


M$

From MS (initialism of Microsoft), with a dollar sign added to imply greed and capitalism.


YCH

(Internet) Initialism of your character here. A type of art commission where the artist creates a basic sketch of a scene with the character(s) as blank template(s), allowing for the commissioner to select any character of their choice to fill in the scene.


DLQ

(computing) Initialism of dead letter queue.


SoA

Coordinate term: AoS

(programming) Initialism of structure of arrays.


Objective-C

In Objective-C, a protocol member can be declared optional, meaning that this member doesn't have to be implemented by the adopter, but it may be.

2016, Matt Neuburg, iOS 10 Programming Fundamentals with Swift: Swift, Xcode, and Cocoa Basics, O'Reilly, page 185

programming language
programming language

(computer languages) An object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style message passing to the C programming language, mainly used on Apple platforms.


Counter-Striker

Think you’re a hardcore Counter-Striker? Well, there are certainly different ways to measure up, whether with proficiency on a sniper rifle or blind luck with an AK-47.

2001 January 27 – February 2, Kevin Cheung, “Net Gamer”, in Icon (The Sydney Morning Herald), number 65, page 18

Unlike Counter-Strike’s bomb diffusal or hostage rescue missions, or Unreal’s Domination and Capture The Flag levels, Deus Ex Multiplayer suffers from a lack of variation in game objectives. If there were a computer each team had to hack into, or a civilian under house arrest that one team must assassinate or escort to safety, there would be enough here to court Counter-Strikers away from their screens.

2001 July, Richie Shoemaker, “Deus Ex Multiplayer”, in PC Zone, number 104, page 93

CS was also one of the first games to use client-side prediction, making for a smoother dial-up experience. Counter-Strikers are less likely to feel the need to upgrade to broadband.

2003 April, Bennett Ring, “Death to Counter-Strike”, in Atomic, number 27, page 065, column 2

The gameplay is literally the exact same thing. And that’s just it—after two years, Counter-Strikers expected that a sequel would offer new weaponry and equipment, and, above all, an engaging single-player game.

2004 March, Four-Eyed Dragon, “Counter-Strike: Condition Zero”, in GamePro, number 186, page 68

Smelling victory amongst the gunpowder Graeme started shooting off his mouth. “True Counter-Strikers like me don’t even count kills unless they’re headshots or a knife in the back of the nut…”

2004 April, Computer and Video Games, number 271, page 24

There was no mention of it in his email, but if what you’ve said about Half-Life 2 is also true of Men Of Valor, Chris may like to wind down his system to its default settings and try again. I’m not overly hopeful, as the problems with the game seem to be across the board, but thanks for the suggestion. If it doesn’t help Chris, it may well help out a beleaguered Counter-Striker.

2005 July, Phil Wand, “Dear Wandy”, in PC Zone, number 156, page 124

Svelte Counter-Strikers take it all off for cash and attention.

2006 July, Computer Gaming World, number 264, page 21

A player of the Counter-Strike series of video games.


WikiGnome

To meet its goal of encapsulating the sum of human knowledge, Wikipedia draws on the talents of different kinds of editors. [Bryan] Henderson is an archetypical WikiGnome, a contributor who specializes in fixing typos, repairing broken links, adding categories and, yes, correcting grammar.

2015 February 3, Andrew McMillen, “Meet the Ultimate WikiGnome”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-20

(chiefly Wikimedia jargon) A wiki editor (such as Wikipedia) that primarily makes minor and uncontroversial edits such as fixing typos and grammar mistakes.


BPE

en-noun

BPE (countable and uncountable, plural BPEs)

(computing) Initialism of byte pair encoding.


junk email

junk email (countable and uncountable, plural junk emails)

(computing) Junk mail taking the form of email.


metapedian

Users also move among different communities as they move from being a new user to an active user, or choose at any stage to exit the platform. Indeed it is not uncommon for many active users and metapedians to suffer burnout.

2015, Kim Osman, Wikipedia: Access and participation in an open encyclopaedia (thesis), Brisbane, Queensland: Queensland University of Technology, page 99

(Wikimedia jargon) A Wikipedia editor who focuses on the social side of the project, such as participating in discussions or community events, rather than editing articles and contributing content.


trace scheduling

(programming) An optimization technique for compilers that rearranges traces (instruction sequences) according to their frequency of execution, and inserts additional code to compensate for any effects of the rearrangement.


Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition

Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition (countable and uncountable, plural Dantzig-Wolfe decompositions)

Originally developed by George Dantzig and Philip Wolfe, who published in 1960.

(computing theory) An algorithm for solving linear programming problems with special structure, relying on delayed column generation for improving the tractability of large-scale linear programs.


multiflow

For vertex-capacitated multiflows the unary case has to be distinguished from vertex-disjoint paths if G is restricted for instance to planar graphs.

2008, Guyslain Naves, András Sebő, “Multiflow Feasibility: An Annotated Tableau”, in William J. Cook, László Lovász, Jens Vygen, editors, Research Trends in Combinatorial Optimization, Berlin: Springer, page 266

Given that several dependency types flow through the networks, multicommodity flows or multiflows is a natural theoretical framework to map the presented model for further investigations.

2010, Bernhard Hämmerli, Critical Information Infrastructures Security, page 32

Despite these restricted multiflows, the gap between integer and half-integer flow is at least 1/2 for these graphs […]

2020, Naveen Garg, Nikhil Kumar, András Sebő, “Integer Plane Multiflow Maximisation: Flow-Cut Gap and One-Quarter-Approximation”, in Daniel Bienstock, Giacomo Zambelli, editors, Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization: 21st International Conference, IPCO 2020, London, UK, June 8–10, 2020, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 12125), Cham: Springer Nature, page 148

(graph theory) A flow function that operates on the set of edges (ordered pairs of vertices) on the intersection of two related directed graphs.


MLOps

Blend of ML (“machine learning”) + DevOps.

blend

The goal of MLOps is to minimize the technical friction to get the model from an idea to production in the shortest possible time with high-quality predictive power and with as little risk as possible.

2021, Hien Luu, Beginning Apache Spark 3, 2nd edition, Apress

(machine learning) A paradigm that aims to deploy and maintain machine learning models in production reliably and efficiently.


screenshort

Kind of counterintuitively, Screenshorts demonstrate why the 140 character limit is vital. If people began posting massive chunks of text to Twitter, it would no longer be easy to scan. But the Screenshort, working side-by-side with in-line image previews, works perfectly. Click to enlarge and all that.

2014 December 19, Mat Honan, “The Rise Of The Screenshort™”, in BuzzFeed News, archived from the original on 2023-05-30

We've heard such rumors before, but this one just got a lot more plausible thanks to a cryptic screenshort from Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey.

2016 January 5, Klint Finley, “Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Hints Its 140 Character Limit Could End”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-10

No more screenshorts

2016 April 12, Casey Newton, “You can now share quoted text directly to Facebook”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 2023-03-23

(social media, rare) A screenshot of text posted to social media.


infostealer

While spyware's purpose is quite similar to infostealer's, this category is broader and may also include video and audio recording capabilities or tracking the victim's location with GPS.

2022, Alexey Kleymenov, Amr Thabet, Mastering Malware Analysis, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 8

(computer security) A piece of malware that steals personal data.


power mod

"Once a fairly free site, in the wake of these power mods it has become restricted and apersonal," Rootin-tootin_putin continued in an email to the Daily Dot. "The point of peer moderators was to ensure that the person in charge of a sub was someone who genuinely cares about the topic; these power mods undermine this entirely."

2020 May 19, Colleen Hagerty, “Reddit's top user says he's 'done' after being outed”, in The Daily Dot, archived from the original on 2023-01-28

(Reddit, derogatory) Someone who has a significant amount of influence across Reddit due to being a moderator of many subreddits.


Farker

The Farkers who submit the stories also provide witty commentary.

2007, PC Mag (volume 26, numbers 21-22, page 89)

Farkers didn't invent the phrase, which dates back to a 1996 student newspaper […]

2011, Cole Stryker, Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web

(Internet) A user of the community website Fark.


hard counter

"Bastion is currently in a pretty bad spot," Rarithlynx wrote earlier this month. "He has the most counters out of all heroes in the game, including quite a bit of hard counters. He's big and immobile, and has no defensive or escape abilities, and requires the team to babysit him all the time."

2017 January 30, Michael McWhertor, “Overwatch's Bastion is finally getting some much-needed buffs”, in Polygon, archived from the original on 2023-02-05

In a blog post, the Overwatch team said it wanted to enable players to have more impact on games with a broad range of strategies and heroes. "We've made changes to reduce the amount of hard counters that Overwatch has," game director Aaron Keller said in an interview.

2022 September 15, Kris Holt, “Here's Why New 'Overwatch 2' Heroes Are Locked Behind A Battle Pass”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-21

The depth of the game's 66 other operators means that there are already some hard counters and interesting interactions.

2023 February 18, Jake Tucker, “New operator Brava is going to shake up 'Rainbow Six Siege'ʼs meta”, in NME, London: NME Networks Media Limited, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-26

(video games, slang) A character, item, or playstyle able to utterly defeat or nullify another.


hard counter

en-verb

hard counter (third-person singular simple present hard counters, present participle hard countering, simple past and past participle hard countered)

hard counters (present singular third-person)
hard countering (participle present)
hard countered (participle past)
hard countered (past)

Unfortunately, Dragon's Breath is not a good option right now. It trades some initial damage for the burning effect, but that burn is hard-countered by EOD.

2021 December 8, Charlie Biggerstaff, “Best Marshal loadout in Warzone, plus how to unlock the Marshal in Warzone”, in Rock Paper Shotgun, archived from the original on 2023-02-06

For instance, while those enemy rocket ships are hard countered by bombers, I was also abble to destroy them with a group of Interceptors who were able to flank while the missiles targeted Recon units that were hidden in cover.

2022 August 26, Matt Purslow, “Homeworld 3's Space Terrain Makes the Death Star Trench Run an RTS Tactic”, in IGN, archived from the original on 2023-06-26

(video games, slang) To act as a hard counter against (something).

Since this is the case, you will want to be aware of all of the potential options Cliff has at his disposal so you can counter them accordingly. Unfortunately, you won't know which opponents you'll battle for certain until they appear, so hard-countering Cliff's entire potential team can be tricky.

2021 April 3, Spencer Whitworth, “How to beat Cliff in Pokemon GO (April 2023)”, in Sportskeeda, archived from the original on 2023-06-27

They're relatively easy to get once you unlock the Gun Shop Vendor, and there are not many options to hard counter their suppressive fire other than running away.

2022 November 3, Matthew McKeown, “Hell Is Others: Guide To PvP”, in The Gamer, archived from the original on 2022-11-04

(video games, slang) To use a hard counter against (something).


B+ tree

(computing theory) An m-ary tree data structure with a variable but often large number of children per node. It can be viewed as a B-tree in which each node contains only keys (not key–value pairs), and to which an additional level is added at the bottom with linked leaves.


2-3-4 tree

(computing theory) A tree data structure whose every node with children (internal node) has either two, three or four child nodes: a 2-node has one data element, and if internal has two child nodes; a 3-node has two data elements, and if internal has three child nodes; and a 4-node has three data elements, and if internal has four child nodes.


2-3 tree

(computing theory) A tree data structure whose every node with children (internal node) has either two children and one data element, or three children and two data elements; a B-tree of order 3.


order statistic tree

en-noun

order statistic tree (plural order statistic trees)

(computing theory) A variant of the binary search tree (or more generally, a B-tree) that supports, in addition to insertion, lookup and deletion, the operations of Select (find the ith smallest element stored in the tree) and Rank (find the rank of element x in the tree, i.e. its index in the sorted list of elements of the tree).


R-tree

(computing theory) A kind of tree data structure used to group objects by nearness of location, representing them by their minimum bounding rectangles in the next higher level of the tree.


X-tree

(computing theory) A data structure based on the R-tree, used for storing data in many dimensions.


backprime

From back + prime (“the ⟨′⟩ symbol”), compare backslash.

The echo and sed commands appear within backprimes (`) that indicate command substitution: The result of executing the commands within the backprimes replaces the backprimes and everything between them.

1997, Mark G. Sobell, “The TC Shell”, in A Practical Guide to Linux, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, page 440

Since deformation manifests itself as a change in the metric characteristics of continuum, in the theory of finite deformations, it is then necessary to compare the referential ‵g_(ασ) and the convective g_(ασ) metrics. We systematically employ Latin indices in order to refer to spatial components of geometrical objects, whereas Greek indices to point on convective components (only a few instances can be found in the present study) or referential components (additionally, root symbol is sometimes supplied by backprime).

2023, Yuri N. Radayev, “Two-Point Rotations in Geometry of Finite Deformations”, in Holm Altenbach, Suren Manuk Mkhitaryan, Vahram Hakobyan, Avetik Varazdat Sahakyan, editors, Solid Mechanics, Theory of Elasticity and Creep (Advanced Structured Materials), Cham: Springer, page 276

(typography, computing) The ⟨‵⟩ or ⟨`⟩ symbol; a reversed prime.


IPW

IPW (countable and uncountable, plural IPWs)

(computing, uncountable) Initialism of incremental packet writing.


GoL

Alternative form: GOL

(cellular automata) Initialism of Game of Life.


spawnproof

(video games) Preventing entities from spawning.


spawnproof

en-verb

spawnproof (third-person singular simple present spawnproofs, present participle spawnproofing, simple past and past participle spawnproofed)

spawnproofs (present singular third-person)
spawnproofing (participle present)
spawnproofed (participle past)
spawnproofed (past)

(video games) To prevent entities from spawning.


GOL

Alternative form: GoL

Any info about optimal GOL-algorithms are also welcome. The algorithm I figured is quite fast, but certainly not optimal.. I am using 320x198 (=63360) array of cells, and with my machine I am getting about 7.7 generations per second, but with some assembly optimizing I could be even faster.

1993 September 7, Teemu Lahteenmaki, “Game of Life patterns wanted”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

Can someone please tell me if/where there is a central repository or web site to which GoL pattern files may be posted? I have been doing some modest engineering/artwork in GoL that I wud like 2 share with others.

2003 September 22, Otis Schmakel, “File Posting Place(s)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

Let's count a number of rules that can be built in GoL-like automatas.

2021 October 19, Stefan W., “Game of Life with real 8 neighbors”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)


back pointer

(programming) A pointer that reciprocates another structure's pointer to its own containing structure, typically found in doubly linked lists and trees.


monster closet

Monster closets will elicit a “startle” reaction from players, […]

2011, Scott Rigby, Richard M. Ryan, Glued to Games, page 85

(video games) A small alcove, containing hidden enemies, that suddenly opens as the player character passes it.


puffer train

The commonest use of sparks from these spaceships is to perturb an "engine" to produce puffer trains, or to modify stationary objects when the spaceships pass by.

1992 August 13, David Bell, “Spaceships in Conway's Life (Part 1)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

The second has speed c/2, period 2. This one also works in B3/S035; the first is no longer a spaceship but a minimalist puffer train, leaving behind a trail of isolated cells!

1995 November 12, Rich Holmes, “Totalistic spaceships”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

I stuck the rule and seed into Golly, and after a few tens of thousands of generations, stuck another seed in such that the arms of gliders spewed by the two blobs would intersect, and without any more planning than that, it constructed a puffer train, that survived ten or twelve major pattern replications despite the sleet of gliders colliding with it, before it finally got clobbered hard enough to disrupt its progress.

2007 June 3, Kent Dolan, “A "new" Conway Life experience.”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)


Highlife

Life-like cellular automaton
Life-like cellular automaton

(cellular automata) A Life-like cellular automaton with the rule B36/S23.


von Neumann neighborhood

en-noun

von Neumann neighborhood (plural von Neumann neighborhoods)

Named after John von Neumann, Hungarian mathematician.

(cellular automata) A neighborhood on a 2D square lattice consisting of a cell and its four orthogonal neighbors.

John von Neumann
von Neumann neighborhood


Day and Night

Named for the fact that the rule is its own complement; toggling all cell states results in the pattern evolving similarly, but with living and dead cells switched.

(cellular automata) A Life-like cellular automaton with the rule B3678/S34678.


Moore neighborhood

Moore neighborhood (plural Moore neighborhoods)

For Edward F. Moore, American cellular automatist

(cellular automata) A neighborhood on a 2D square lattice consisting of a cell and its eight orthogonal and diagonal neighbors.


Life without Death

Named for the fact that the birth rules are identical to those of the Game of Life, but the survival rules are such that it is impossible for living cells to die.

(cellular automata) A Life-like cellular automaton with the rule B3/S012345678.


Life-like cellular automaton

Life-like cellular automaton (plural Life-like cellular automata or Life-like cellular automatons)

Life-like cellular automata (plural)
Life-like cellular automatons (plural)

(cellular automata) A cellular automaton resembling Conway's Game of Life in terms of its ruleset (i.e. 2D, binary, outer totalistic, and using the Moore neighborhood).


outer totalistic

Why it is important, to design totalistic or outer totalistic rules?

2003 January 18, Frank Buss, “Searching detailed description of Codd's automaton”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

It's the second-order reversible outer totalistic rule b1234/s0123R on the von Neumann neighborhood.

2003 December 13, Ilmari Karonen, “'TimeWarp' CA rule -- anyone recognize this one?”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

Hello, How to compute lambda value for (outer-)totalistic rule? Is it the same way like computing for elementary?

2007 August 28, Bob, “Lambda value of (outer-)totalistic code”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

(cellular automata) Having the state of each cell represented by a number, and the value of a cell dependent only on its current value along with the sum of the values of nearby cells.


twttr

Just received a txt message from a [person] […] Brazil wanting to twttr.
Quoting a product leaflet from around 2006 introducing the service

(Internet, dated) To converse on Twitter; to send a tweet.


Horspool's algorithm

Boyer-Moore-Horspool algorithm
Boyer-Moore-Horspool algorithm#English

(computing theory) Synonym of Boyer-Moore-Horspool algorithm


Boyer-Moore-Horspool algorithm

the Boyer-Moore-Horspool algorithm (canonical)

It was published by Nigel Horspool in 1980, and based on an earlier (1977) algorithm developed by Robert S. Boyer and J. Strother Moore.

(computing theory) An algorithm for finding substrings that trades space for time in order to obtain an average-case time complexity of O(n) on random text.


Plebbit

quoted in 2020, John Bodner, Wendy Welch, Ian Brodie, COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories
Go look at plebbit [reddit], they're fucking hysterical. Screaming for forced vaccinations.


(video games) Initialism of Mario Kart 7.


Simula

(computer languages) A programming language of the ALGOL family that pioneered many object-oriented concepts such as classes and objects.


cookie stealer

(Internet) A type of malware that reads private browser cookies.


Mastodonian

(Internet) A user of the decentralized social media platform Mastodon.


old man yells at cloud

From a scene in the 2002 episode "The Old Man and the Key" of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons, in which Grampa Simpson, applying for a driver's license, produces a newspaper clipping with this headline for identification.

I'm incessantly railing, in the old-man-yells-at-cloud tradition, against Big Beautiful Burgers stuffed into wispy buns that leave nothing to the imagination.

2018 February, Liz Cook, “Check-in Time”, in The Pitch, page 26

If you will allow me an “old man yells at cloud” moment...back in my day, the only tools we had to make documentation were plain ol' spreadsheets, slides, and Word documents.

2020, Matt LeMay, Product Management in Practice, page 148

Everyone has their own Old-Man-Yells-at-Cloud gripe that they just can't let go. Some people can't get over the fact that some people do (or do not) keep their ketchup in the fridge; other people can't stop themselves ragging on pineapple-topped pizza.

2022, Ruby Tandoh, Cook As You Are: Recipes for Real Life, Hungry Cooks, and Messy Kitchens: A Cookbook, page 131

(humorous or derogatory) Refers to a person who expresses a trivial, out-of-touch, or idiosyncratic grievance; especially, with an implication of aged crotchetiness.

Grampa Simpson
The Old Man and the Key
The Simpsons


tab index

tab index (plural tab indexes or tab indices)

tab indexes (plural)
tab indices (plural)

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) A number assigned to a control on the display, designating its position in the sequence of controls that the user can move through by pressing the Tab key.


poor little meow meow

poor little meow meow (plural poor little meow meows)

Emerged from a 2020 viral tweet by a BTS fan apologetically addressing group member Suga (known by the fan nickname "Lil Meow Meow") as "my poor meow meow...my baby my little baby who hurt^([sic]) so much […] ." The tweet was made in response to the controversy over Suga's sampling of a speech by cult leader Jim Jones (1931-1978) on his solo mixtape D-2.

You may have noticed there’s a new trend amongst fans of all kinds of media. Whenever there’s a little sad sack of a man, people will start calling him their “poor little meow meow”—their little baby loser boy, if you will. In other words: a Pathetic Loserman.

2022 September 13, Madeline Carpou, “Allons-y, Make Way for This Year’s “Official Pathetic Loserman!””, in The Mary Sue

Examples of Poor Little Meow Meows include Breaking Bad’s Jesse Pinkman, Marvel’s Loki, Avatar: The Last Airbender‘s Prince Zuko, and Ice King from Adventure Time.

2022, Jack Doyle, "Who (Or What) Is Poor Little Meow Meow?", The Mary Sue, 19 September 2022

Unlike his brothers, Aldo is kind of a lil’ sweetie. I mean, he’s not really a sweetie at all. In Tumblr morality terms, he is more of a Poor Little Meow Meow than he is a true cinnamon roll.

2022 December 11, Jack Doyle, “Aldo And The Three Brothers In ‘Chainsaw Man,’ Explained”, in The Mary Sue

(fandom slang) A fictional character who is both endearingly pathetic and extremely flawed or villainous.

BTS
D-2 (mixtape)
Jim Jones
Suga (rapper)

baby girl

male morally ambiguous character romanticised by fans

Draco in Leather Pants

any morally ambiguous character romanticised by fans

woobie

morally ambiguous character subjected to pain for pathos


Threader

For those who are especially keen on becoming a 'Threader', the free app can be pre-ordered now and will become available to use upon its official launch tomorrow.

2023 July 5, Naomi May, “Everything You Need to Know About Meta's 'Twitter Killer' App, Threads”, in Elle, archived from the original on 2023-07-08

On Thursday morning, Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Meta Platforms, which owns Instagram and Facebook, said that 30 million new Threaders have already signed on.

2023 July 6, Hiawatha Bray, “Twitter killer? Here's what to know about Threads, the new app from Meta.”, in The Boston Globe, Boston, M.A.: Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-06

social networking
social networking#Noun

(social media) A user of the social networking app Threads.


Threads

→ French: Threads

The point of Meta's Threads app is to read and engage in public conversations. On Threads, users can post a "thread" — usually a short piece of text — and other users can "like," repost, or reply to the thread.

2024 April 4, Michelle Mark, “Meta's Threads app: The text-based social media platform from Instagram trying to replace X”, in MSN, archived from the original on 2024-05-28, Business Insider

A social media platform developed by Meta, integrated into the fediverse.


final boss

(video games) An extremely powerful enemy that a player fights at the end of a campaign or story.


call-with-current-continuation

call-with-current-continuation (countable and uncountable, plural call-with-current-continuations or calls-with-current-continuation)

call-with-current-continuations (plural)
calls-with-current-continuation (plural)

(programming) In Scheme, a procedure that captures the current continuation to pass it as an argument to another continuation.


FPDP

Front Panel Data Port
w:Front Panel Data Port

(computer hardware) Initialism of Front Panel Data Port.


/ˌeɪ əʊ ˈθɹiː/

/ˌeɪ oʊ ˈθɹiː/

Shortening of the standard acronym of Archive of Our Own (AOOO) to account for the three consecutive Os.

LiveJournal and AO3 rely largely on tags, whilst Fanfiction.net has genre and character filters as well as a keyword search.

2017, Judith May Fathallah, Fanfiction and the Author:How Fanfic Changes Popular Cultural Texts, page 39

The effect of Tumblr's ephemeral timescape was further exacerbated by many Hockey RPF fans' decision to delete works from the AO3.

2020, Milena Popova, “How Tumblr's Temporal Features Shape Community Memory and Knowledge”, in Allison McCracken, Alexander Cho, Louisa Stein, Indira Neill Hoch, editors, A Tumblr Book: Platform and Cultures, page 89

Gosh. Where on earth had that come from? She really needed to read less AO3 smut before bed.

2021, Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown, unnumbered page

(fandom slang) Abbreviation of Archive of Our Own.


tree kernel

(machine learning) A tree data structure based on the more general concept of the positive-definite kernel, used in the parsing and classification of sentences.


choose violence

en-verb

choose violence (third-person singular simple present chooses violence, present participle choosing violence, simple past chose violence, past participle chosen violence)

chooses violence (present singular third-person)
choosing violence (participle present)
chose violence (past)
chosen violence (participle past)

According to Know Your Meme, first used in the idiomatic sense in a tweet posted June 21, 2019 by @mtheadnothought: "azealia banks wakes up every morning and chooses violence tbh the dedication is outstanding", itself inspired by line of dialogue in the 2016 Game of Thrones episode "No One" (see I choose violence).

wake up and choose violence

In a post on his Instagram story Thursday, the Saturday Night Live head writer [Michael Che] expressed his desire to "make fun of Simone Biles." In the next post, he wrote: "I got like 3 mins of Simone Biles jokes in my head. I'm going to the cellar tonight to say them into a microphone. As the dorky kids say, I'm choosing violence."

2021 July 30, Tayo Bero, “When Will Michael Che Face Consequences For Punching Down On Black Women?”, in Refinery29, archived from the original on 2023-07-13

RuPaul Charles chose violence on this week's episode of Drag Race UK when he chose to eliminate, not one, but two fan-favourite contestants from the competition.

2021 October 29, Sam Damshenas, “Exclusive: Choriza May addresses 'hurtful' RuPaul's Drag Race UK twist”, in Gay Times, London: Gay Times Ltd, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-20

Still, the broadcast decided to show that Verstappen was leading him by more than 77 seconds. Sharing a snap of the visual, one Twitter user posted: "F1 CHOSE VIOLENCE WITH THIS GRAPHIC."

2022 April 24, Jake Lambourne, “'They chose violence' – Sky Sports F1 'troll' Hamilton as Brit is lapped by Verstappen in Emilia Romagna horror show”, in The US Sun, archived from the original on 2022-05-24

For Payne's sake, we hope he figures out who he wants to be soon — and that it's not the same man who woke up and chose violence on Logan Paul's podcast.

2022 June 1, Jon Blistein, “Liam Payne Unfortunately Chose Violence While Talking One Direction on Logan Paul's Podcast”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-08

I have read enough online listing BS — and watched enough terrible HGTV to make my own realtor's head hurt — that the line between parody and straight-faced is probably permanently blurred for me. The internal adjustments you learn to make to the manic cheerleading for basic structural details—sorry, "charming historical elements"—are a reflex at this point, to say nothing of the eye strain from listings that considered proper capitalization and punctuation and chose violence instead.

2023 January 20, Erin Keane, “A tiny gingerbread house got listed on Zillow for 31 days, and the price felt all too real”, in Salon.com, archived from the original on 2023-05-28

(Internet slang, humorous, idiomatic) To disrespect or insult someone in a particularly audacious and unexpected manner.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see choose, violence.


dangling link

Earlier hypertext arrangements kept a record of every single link in the system to avoid "dangling links" — links pointing to nothing. But creating the Web at scale meant users would have to be able to delete documents without telling every single other user about the deletion, even if that document was being linked to from elsewhere. Berners-Lee "realized that this dangling-link thing may be a problem, but you have to accept it."

2014 November 12, Alex Fitzpatrick, “4 Things You Might Not Have Known About the World Wide Web's Inventor”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-15

(Internet) A URL which does not point to any webpage or file; a dead link.


knife-ear

From an allusion to the pointed ears common in fantasy depictions of elves. Popularised by Dragon Age: Origins (2009) and its subsequent use in the Dragon Age franchise. Possibly influenced by the earlier round-ear.

You've a lot of nerve, knife-ears. This'll go badly for you.

2009 November 3, BioWare (developer), David Gaider (lead writer), Dragon Age: Origins, →OCLC, scene: wedding cutscene in the City Elf origin

"Hard to believe the elves wiped out the Knights of Saint Augustine. Their captain was capable of summoning the angel, you know? How did a couple of knife-ears stand up to the Kingdom's strongest knights and an angel?”

2020, 616th Special Information Battalion (trans. ZackZeal), Her Majesty's Swarm: Volume 1, unnumbered page

"Get your ass in here. It's time you started acting like the chicano ork you are and not some pansy elf listening to Americano music by yourself all the time. That's what knife-ears do! Now get in here!"

2022, O. C. Presley, Shadowrun: Kings of the Street, unnumbered pages


ALSer

Good point. A blanket apology would be a good place to start if he really wants to be an ALSer. […] It will take a year or two to post the HUGE number of apologies he owes ALSers.

1998 February 26, Vince, “Re: Spirituality Survey”, in alt.life.sucks (Usenet)

(Internet slang) A participant in the Usenet newsgroup alt.life.sucks.


DDLC

From Japanese どきどき (dokidoki, “throb of a heart, heartbeat”) + literature + club.

af

Doki Doki Literature Club
w:Doki Doki Literature Club

(video games) Initialism of Doki Doki Literature Club.

doki

slang term for the four girls and main characters in the game


insn

(computing) Abbreviation of instruction.


GeoCity

Back-formation from GeoCities, from geo- + cities.

The place-names (Cape Canaveral, Silicon Valley, Athens, etc.) demarcating GeoCity neighbourhoods, do not stand in relation to each other according to the order of a real geography, but as cultural markers for aligned interest groups.

1999, Caroline Bassett, Chris Wilbert, “Where you want to go today (like it or not): leisure practices in cyberspace”, in David Crouch, editor, Leisure/Tourism Geographies: Practices and Geographical Knowledge, Routledge, published 2006, page 188

But there are also recorded instances of people ‘marrying' within the ‘community’ of a GeoCity.

1999, Gordon Graham, The Internet: A Philosophical Inquiry, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, page 148

Imagine, now, someone whose sole experience of interacting with others lay, or at least had come to lie, in relationships formed within a GeoCity or virtual community.

2003, Gordon Graham, “Virtual Reality: The Future of Cyberspace”, in Eric Katz, Andrew Light, William Thompson, editors, Controlling Technology: Contemporary Issues, Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, part 8 (Computers, Information, and Virtual Reality), page 493

Anyone, from anywhere in the world, could bond in a GeoCity over anything from blue whales to Baked Alaska, from Mozart to muscle cars.

2015, James Crawford, Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of Twenty Lost Buildings from the Tower of Babel to the Twin Towers, Old Street Publishing Ltd, page 523

(Internet, historical) A community of common interests on GeoCities.


homeserver

The disruption has caused hours of ongoing downtime, in which Matrix.org said the organization had run into issues "rebuilding production from scratch." Websites, databases, synapse, LBs, and media repositories were all impacted. Modular.im homeservers, however, are unscathed.

2019 April 12, Charlie Osborne, “Matrix.org hack forces servers offline, encrypted chat history lost”, in ZDNET, archived from the original on 2023-03-31

That figure is therefore the total number of addressable users visible to the matrix.org homeserver, but doesn't include servers or users not viewable on the public network or those that don't report usage stats.

2022 July 15, Richard Speed, “60 million in the Matrix as users seek decentralized messaging”, in The Register, archived from the original on 2023-06-03

The first two attacks provide a simple confidentiality break by exploiting the homeserver's control over the users and devices that are permitted to join a private room.

2022 September 28, Dan Goodin, “Serious vulnerabilities in Matrix's end-to-end encryption have been patched”, in Ars Technica, archived from the original on 2023-05-27

(computing) A server that facilitates communication using the Matrix protocol.


music video game

en-noun

music video game (plural music video games)


Wish.com

From the domain name of the e-commerce platform Wish, because many poor-quality and counterfeit goods have been sold on it, itself from wish + .com (created as an application that allowed shoppers to create wish lists of their favorite products before matching them with merchants).

When I sit and watch Insidious, I cannot help but smile at the Wish.com version of Darth Maul whom I am supposed to tremble at the sight of.

2021 October 29, Ellie Jurmann, “Horror Movies for Bedtime Stories”, in Post, Providence, RI: Brown University, page 5

I feel like this concept is the Wish.com version of reincarnation.

2022, Mary Katherine Backstrom, Crazy Joy: Finding Wild Happiness in a World That's Upside Down, unnumbered page

But ultimately, it's the Wish.com version of a David Lean epic, partway between a pound-shop Kwai and a half-decent episode of Columbo, […]

2022, John Dorney, Jessica Regan, & Tom Salinsky, Best Pick: A Journey Through Film History and the Academy Awards, page 150

(attributive, Internet, slang, derogatory) Used to denote that something is low-quality or an inferior copy.

wishes

used to denote something considered to be low-quality or an inferior copy


derust

en-verb

derust (third-person singular simple present derusts, present participle derusting, simple past and past participle derusted)

derusts (present singular third-person)
derusting (participle present)
derusted (participle past)
derusted (past)

I don't understand explanations like these. He wanted to 'derust' by having something help play the game for him? That's not derusting, that's straight up sticking your dick into a bucket full of iron filings left out in the rain for three weeks.

2020 August 25, u/Ephemeralis, “Poised(from circle people) on why he cheated.”, in Reddit, r/osugame, archived from the original on 2023-12-23

It's imperative we get 2 closed door matches under our belt in Qatar so we can derust in November.

2022 September 23, u/jamesey10, “Post Match Thread: MNT”, in Reddit, r/ussoccer, archived from the original on 2023-12-23

Watched this one live, he randomly got it less than an hour into the stream while derusting for PACE. He's just him.

2023 October 25, u/baggypantsman, “Super Mario 64 - 0 Star in 6:16 by Suigi”, in Reddit, r/speedrun, archived from the original on 2023-12-23

The act ends in 2 days, unless you want to derust or improve at the game probably better to wait if you want to grind rank

2023 October 30, u/alphcadoesreddit, “Worth grinding ranked at this point of the act?”, in Reddit, r/VALORANT, archived from the original on 2023-12-23

(intransitive, chiefly video games, slang) To regain one's skills at a game after not having played for a while; to reverse the process of rusting.


Ramanujan graph

en-noun

Ramanujan graph (plural Ramanujan graphs)

Named after mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.

(graph theory) A regular graph whose spectral gap is almost as large as possible, making it an excellent spectral expander. Such graphs are relevant to diverse branches of pure mathematics.


unbuffer

en-verb

unbuffer (third-person singular simple present unbuffers, present participle unbuffering, simple past and past participle unbuffered)

unbuffers (present singular third-person)
unbuffering (participle present)
unbuffered (participle past)
unbuffered (past)

2003, Stas Bekman, Eric Cholet, Practical mod_perl
We set $|=1 to unbuffer the STDERR stream, so we can immediately see the debug output generated by the program.

(computing, transitive) To release or flush from a buffer.


semiviral

Almost immediately after the video went semiviral, activist Rosa Clemente mobilized a group of women of color to coauthor and sign a statement denouncing the video, calling for XXL to feature anti–sexual violence content and demanding the firing of then–XXL editor-in-chief, Vanessa Satten.⁴²

2023, Treva B. Lindsey, “Up against the Wind: Intracommunal Violence”, in America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice, Oakland, CA: University of California Press, page 134

(social media) Somewhat or moderately viral (circulated rapidly and widely).


Solomonoff induction

posterior probability
posterior probability

(computing theory) A form of induction, involving Bayes' theorem, that derives the posterior probability of any computable theory, given a sequence of observed data.


decloud

decloud (third-person singular simple present declouds, present participle declouding, simple past and past participle declouded)

declouds (present singular third-person)
declouding (participle present)
declouded (participle past)
declouded (past)

(computing) To transfer data off of the cloud and onto local storage.


deperimeterized

(computer security) Having undergone deperimeterization.


ZTA

(computer security) Initialism of zero trust architecture.


deperimeterization

(computer security) The removal of a boundary between an organization and the outside world, allowing (suitably authenticated) access from any location.


glass teletype

(computing, slang, dated) A rudimentary videoterminal.


poisoning attack

en-noun

poisoning attack (plural poisoning attacks)

Just like how you can poison a village by poisoning its water source, poisoning attacks corrupt the AI system from functioning by poisoning the input data.

2023, Ram Shankar Siva Kumar, Hyrum Anderson, Not with a Bug, But with a Sticker […], John Wiley & Sons

(machine learning, computer security) Synonym of data poisoning

machine learning; computer security; machine learning; computer security


SSPL

Server Side Public License
w:Server Side Public License

(computing, copyright law) Initialism of Server Side Public License.


data poisoning

data poisoning (countable and uncountable, plural data poisonings)

While data sanitization shows promise to defend against data poisoning, it is often impossible to validate every data source [14].

2019, Simon N. Foley, editor, Data and Applications Security and Privacy XXXIII […], Springer, page 4

Similarly, the Tay chatbot suffered from data poisoning. To mitigate data poisoning, it is important not to let any one group contribute too much data to a model.

2022, Alfred Z. Spector, Peter Norvig, Chris Wiggins, Jeannette M. Wing, Data Science in Context: Foundations, Challenges, Opportunities, Cambridge University Press, page 148

Data poisoning is one type of adversarial attack—where a user or group of users submit false data to influence the model toward a particular or incorrect prediction.

2023, Katharine Jarmul, Practical Data Privacy, O'Reilly

Some forms of data poisoning are undetectable. Attackers can insert adversarial noise into the training data, altering the training data in a way that is hidden to human observers.

2023, Paul Scharre, Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, W. W. Norton & Company

(machine learning, computer security) The deliberate use of a training dataset with data designed to increase errors in the output of a machine learning model.


Byzantine attack

Byzantine attack (plural Byzantine attacks)

Finally, the Byzantine attack raises the problem of reaching a consensus among nodes when an unknown number of them maybe traitors.

2005, Jie Wu, Handbook on Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects of Sensor, Ad Hoc Wireless, and Peer-to-Peer Networks, CRC Press, page 835

Four main Byzantine attacks include “Black Holes,” “Flood Rushing,” “Wormholes,” and “Overlay Network Wormholes” [10].

2010, Yang Xiao, Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks, CRC Press, page 125

(computer security) A type of attack involving multiple nodes collaborating to disrupt the network.


DoT

(video games) Alternative spelling of DOT


tri-pane

Windows Live Mail uses a tri-pane window layout.

2011, Kevin Otnes, Windows 7 Made Simple, page 304

(graphical user interface) Consisting of three panes.


Wikipediholism

The author of the original tool for counting edits noted that editcountitis, or an unhealthy obsession with the notion of edit count, can be fatal. Editcountitis is often a symptom of Wikipediholism, which is an even worse disease. The only sure treatment is worrying more about the quality of your edits than the quantity.

2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works, San Francisco, C.A.: No Starch Press, pages 324–325

The community has dubbed obsessively editing the encyclopedia Wikipediholism; an article for the term warns that, "like any behavioral addiction, Wikipedia overuse may lead to job loss, divorce, bankruptcy, or worse. … Remember, it's your time and you are donating it to Wikipedia. It is healthy to donate what you can afford to donate, but no more."

2015 February 3, Andrew McMillen, “One Man's Quest to Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-18

(Wikimedia jargon) Addiction to editing Wikipedia.


Wikipediholic

Hopefully, you'll get hooked on Wikipedia soon and can add yourself to the list of "Wikipediholics" ;-).

2003 July 18, Erik Moeller, “Wikipedia needs skeptics”, in sci.skeptic (Usenet)

Yes, I am a Wikipediholic.

2004 July 6, Bryan Derksen, “Ringworld's Children”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet)

Wikipedians can be a similarly compulsive and eccentric lot. So much so that some refer to themselves as Wikipediholics with a case of editcountitis, "a serious disease consisting of an unhealthy obsession with the number of edits you have made to Wikipedia."

2010, Joseph M. Reagle Jr., Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia, Cambridge, M.A., London: MIT Press, page 157

Many Wikipedia pages deal with topics only of interest to the Wikipedia community itself. Some of these pages are funny: there's a 1,181-question test to see if you're a Wikipediholic (for anyone who willingly sits through the entire test, I think the answer is obviously "yes"); a list of articles with freaky titles ("22.86 Centimetre Nails," the metric version of the band "Nine Inch Nails," now unfortunately deleted); and many others.

2012, Michael Nielsen, Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science, Princeton, N.J., Oxford, Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press, page 53

(Wikimedia jargon) Someone who is addicted to editing Wikipedia.


editcountitis

A system that encourages number of contributions over quality can be counterproductive. Wikipedia cautions against 'editcountitis', humorously described as 'a belief that a Wikipedian's overall contribution level can be measured solely by their edit count'.

2006, Jane Klobas, Wikis: Tools for Information Work and Collaboration, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Chandos Publishing, page 199

In fact, the very ease of this process may be the reason for deletionism's prevalence: Many Wikipedians suffer from editcountitis, the state of being overly obsessed with the number of edits one makes.

2017 March 6, Dariusz Jemielniak, “The Wikipedia Battle Over Really Short Articles”, in Slate, archived from the original on 2023-05-29

(Wikimedia jargon) Obsession with increasing one's edit count on a wiki.


SNARG

2018, Dan Boneh, Yuval Ishai, Amit Sahai, David J. Wu, Quasi-Optimal SNARGs via Linear Multi-Prover Interactive Proofs, Jesper Buus Nielsen, Vincent Rijmen (editors), Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2018: 37th Annual International Conference on Cryptographic Techniques, Proceedings, Part III, Springer, LNCS 10822, page 224,
A SNARG is publicly verifiable if anyone can verify the proofs, and it is designated-verifier if only the holder of a secret verification state (generated along with the CRS) can verify proofs.

However, SNARGs and SNARKs (blockchain implementations of SNARGs) rely on pre-quantum assumptions and are not post-quantum secure. Hence, lattice-based SNARGs are proposed (Boneh et al., 2017).

2020, Melanie Swan, Renato P Dos Santos, Frank Witte, Quantum Computing, World Scientific, page 172

2021, Yael Taumann Kalai, Vinod Vaikuntanathan, Rachel Yun Zhang, Somewhere Statistical Soundness, Post-Quantum Security, and SNARGs, Kobbi Nissim, Brent Waters (editors), Theory of Cryptography: 19th International Conference, TCC 2021, Proceedings, Part I, Springer, LNCS 13042, page 355,
In this section, we construct SNARGs for languages with a (computational) non-signaling mathsf PCP, assuming the existence of a SNARG for mathsf BatchNP.

(computing, cryptography) Acronym of succinct non-interactive argument.


SNARK

2019, Anca Nitulescu, Lattice-Based Zero-Knowledge SNARGs for Arithmetic Circuits, Peter Schwabe, Nicolas Thériault (editors), Progress in Cryptology – LATINCRYPT 2019: 6th International Conference, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 11774, page 223,
SNARG vs. SNARK. If we replace the computational soundness with computational Knowledge Soundness we obtain what we call a SNARK, a succinct non-interactive argument of knowledge.

2020, Fuyuki Kitagawa, Takahiro Matsuda, Takashi Yamakawa, NIZK from SNARG, Rafael Pass, Krzysztof Pietrzak (editors), Theory of Cryptography: 18th International Conference, Proceedings, Part I, Springer, LNCS 12550, page 568,
Actually, what is often used in blockchains is a SNARK [4], which is a stronger variant of a SNARG that satisfies extractability.

2023, Matteo Campanelli, Chaya Ganesh, Hamidreza Khoshakhlagh, Janno Siim, Impossibilities in Succinct Arguments: Black-Box Extraction and More, Nadia El Mrabet, Luca De Feo, Sylvain Duquesne (editors), Progress in Cryptology - AFRICACRYPT 2023: 14th International Conference, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 14064, page 467,
Whether we can build SNARKs with black-box extraction in the standard model is an elusive problem. […] In particular, we show that a SNARG can be lifted to a SNARK with the features above for the class of languages FewP (roughly, NP with polynomial many witnesses).

succinct non-interactive argument of knowledge#English

(computing, cryptography) Acronym of succinct non-interactive argument of knowledge.


status strip

(graphical user interface) Synonym of status bar


step and repeat

(often attributive, design, computer graphics) A kind of design, typically for banners or backdrops, consisting of logos or images at fixed offsets.


linktree

From the company name Linktree, from link + tree.

In examining the patronage platforms for the following case study, we found that Twitter and Instagram are most popular among this grouping of cosplayers; many did not link to their tumblrs in their linktrees, so while tumblr has a large amount of fan users, we were unable to determine whether these cosplayers also used the platform.

2021 September 2, Lauren Rouse, Anastasia Salter, “Cosplay on Demand? Instagram, OnlyFans, and the Gendered Fantrepreneur”, in Social Media + Society, SAGE Publications, →DOI, page 4, column 2

(social media) A landing page of social media links created using the online service Linktree.


unretweet

en-verb

unretweet (third-person singular simple present unretweets, present participle unretweeting, simple past and past participle unretweeted)

unretweets (present singular third-person)
unretweeting (participle present)
unretweeted (participle past)
unretweeted (past)

A good way to soften the embarrassment that can follow too many self-retweets is to undo the retweet after a few minutes or only leave it up for a short time. This keeps your timeline from looking less desperate, and let's face it, if you're going to retweet the tweet again, you're going to have to unretweet it at some point.

2017 July 18, Taylor Lorenz, “In praise of retweeting yourself”, in Mic, archived from the original on 2023-03-31

Most people are guessing there's something in the works with Grande and Hudson, though it's just speculation. Fans spotted Grande's photographer bestie Alfredo Flores retweet Carey's photo (and since unretweeted it), which seems to be a good sign.

2020 October 12, Natalie Morin, “Did Mariah Carey Just Announce A Christmas Collab With Ariana Grande?”, in Refinery29, archived from the original on 2023-07-31

(Twitter, transitive) To undo the action of retweeting.


KIPS

Coordinate term: MIPS

(computing) Abbreviation of thousand instructions per second.


multiwrite

(computing) Involving more than one write operation.


orthodox file manager

en-noun

orthodox file manager (plural orthodox file managers)

(computing) A file manager program with a traditional textbased user interface.


cache stampede

(computing) A cascading failure that may occur when massively parallel systems with caching mechanisms come under very high load, leading to multiple threads of execution attempting to perform the same operation simultaneously.


bicapitalization

(computing) The practice of spelling a two-word name without a space, using a capital letter to indicate the start of each word, as in the brand name PowerPoint.


registration wall

registration wall (plural registration walls)

This can be a good way to generate leads, but keep in mind that putting up a registration wall will likely reduce the amount of SEO traffic you can drive to that guide.

Dr. Rakesh D, Dr. Manoj Kumara N V, Dr. Darshan S, Marketing Management (page 164)

(computing) A feature of a website, application or service that only allows access to certain content or functions to users who have registered by creating an account.


modmail

modmail (countable and uncountable, plural modmails)

They asked for simple things like updates to their “modmail,” the internal message tool that moderators use to manage their groups.

2018, Jeremy Heimans, Henry Timms, New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World—and How to Make It Work for You, Doubleday

She mostly kept to protocol when issues arose here and elsewhere, trying to message moderators through modmail, the internal Reddit mail system, where she was sometimes known as Alex.

2018, Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet’s Culture Laboratory, Piatkus

We used this modmail feature to contact the moderators thereafter.

2020, Koustuv Saha, Sindhu Kiranmai Ernala, Sarmistha Dutta, Eva Sharma, Munmun De Choudhury, “Understanding Moderation in Online Mental Health Communities”, in Gabriele Meiselwitz, editor, Social Computing and Social Media. Participation, User Experience, Consumer Experience, and Applications of Social Computing, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, page 95

(uncountable) A messaging system on Reddit used for communication between moderators and other Redditors.


bifid cipher

Coordinate term: trifid cipher

(cryptography) A classical cipher that combines the Polybius square with transposition, and uses fractionation to achieve diffusion.


trifid cipher

Coordinate term: bifid cipher

(cryptography) A classical cipher that extends the earlier bifid cipher with the use of trigrams.


button bar

(graphical user interface) Synonym of toolbar


Snap

The Snapstreak increases when you and your friend send a Snap to each other within a 24-hour period for three consecutive days.

2019 August 6, Becky Pemberton, “Snapchat streaks: How to get back a lost streak and how to report a problem”, in The Sun

(social media) A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.

“Can we exchange info or something? Maybe we can meet up tomorrow.” “Sure, my Snap is NoWaySims.” “That sounds like a fake account,” Ty said.

2022, Kasie West, Places We’ve Never Been, Delacorte Press, page 97

“What’s your Snap?” she says, pulling out her phone, medium-sized with a black sparkly cover that says *That B!tch* in gold letters. “I don’t have Snap,” I say.

2022, Lee Call, The Angel Room, J Emrys Press

“I’m in. I’m in. We’ll have a lot to coordinate here, so what’s your Snap?” Brady pulled out his phone and waited on my reply. “Yeah, I don’t have Snapchat. I’ll just give you my number.”

2023, Mike Thayer, The Talent Thief, Feiwel and Friends

(social media, colloquial) Clipping of Snapchat (“user account on Snapchat”).


Snap

en-verb

Snap (third-person singular simple present Snaps, present participle Snapping, simple past and past participle Snapped)

Snaps (present singular third-person)
Snapping (participle present)
Snapped (participle past)
Snapped (past)

“Snap Clark again, Bea,” Madeline said. “Hopefully he’ll send another bathing suit pic.” / Bea smoothed her hair down and sat up straight on the diving board. She sucked in her cheeks, making her lips all pouty, and took a selfie. For someone who didn’t know how to use Snapchat half an hour ago, she was really getting into it. / Two seconds later she held up her phone. “He Snapped back.”

2020 October, Eileen Moskowitz-Palma, School Squad (The Popularity Pact; 2), New York, N.Y.: Running Press Kids

I said I forgot what good taste he had in music and that I really liked House. He said he did too and ask me if I was on Snapchat? I said I used to be and that I could add it again. The instant I did he Snapped me and said he could really use a good back massage.

2022, Leo Neet, 1000 Secrets, a Million Lies: Confessions of a Sex Addict, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Dorrance Publishing Co, page 45

Damien wants to add me on Snapchat and write to me about all the ice cream he’s eaten this evening, which I should have taken as a sign we would never meet. We briefly discuss getting together but send each other dirty pics instead. […] One evening Damien gets excited and says, I’m going to send you a newd (a brand new one!), and then texts the same one he Snapped three weeks ago, a black-and-white artsy number with weed smoke trailing above his privates like ribbon dancers at a music festival.

2024, Suzanne Samples, Thirteen Tunnels, [Los Angeles, Calif.]: Running Wild Press

(social media, ditransitive) To send a visual message through the Snapchat application.


IMGUI

graphical user interface
graphical user interface#English

(computing) Initialism of immediate mode graphical user interface.


total conversion

en-noun

total conversion (plural total conversions)

A fantasy-themed RTS, Kingdoms (TA meets Warcraft II) is a total conversion with four unique races — each based on the four elements: earth, air, fire, and water.

1998 November, “Total Annihilation: Kingdoms”, in PC Accelerator, page 23

Gunman is a total conversion (TC) of HaIf-Life, Valve's astonishingly popular firstperson shooter.

2001 February, John Dewhurst, “Gunman Chronicles”, in PC Powerplay, page 68

Green Berets is a total conversion of Bungie’s classic Myth II: Soulblighter.

2002 January, Andrew S. Bub, “Green Berets: mything in action”, in Computer Games, page 84

total conversion mod
total conversion mod#English

(video games) Synonym of total conversion mod.


total conversion mod

total conversion mod (plural total conversion mods)

This is a total conversion mod for Medieval: Total War that uses Napoleonic era troops rather than swords and knights.

2006, William Abner, The 2006 Gamer's Tome of Ultimate Wisdom: An Almanac of Pimps, Orcs, and Lightsabers, page 157

The best-known total conversion mod of Half-Life is Counter Strike, which uses the Half Life engine but is a multiplayer-only game.

2010, Satish Nambisan, Mohanbir Sawhney, The Global Brain: Your Roadmap for Innovating Faster and Smarter in a Networked World, page 159

In the end, the two created in less than a month a total conversion mod of Unreal Tournament 2004 in which players wander around an authentic Dutch landscape (without any guns of course).

2012, Casper Harteveld, Making Sense of Virtual Risks: A Quasi-Experimental Investigation Into Game-Based Training, page 11

(video games) A mod that uses the game engine of an existing video game but significantly alters gameplay, assets, setting, etc. to the extent it is considered an entirely different game (and may be commercially marketed as a standalone title).


I don't even

what is this I don't even
what is this I don't even#English

Alternative form of what is this I don't even


out-of-office

There are poetic out-of-offices and humorous (or supposedly humorous) out-of-offices. There are out-of-offices that boast or complain about the person’s likely whereabouts (Bali! Jury duty.).

2015 August 27, Emily Gould, “The Art of the Out-of-Office Reply”, in The New York Times

That doesn’t happen in even the most enlightened workplaces, but nothing makes me feel more patriotic than emailing a French company in summer, getting an out-of-office that sends me to someone else, that person also being en vacances and suggesting a third, whose out-of-office directs me back to the first person.

2023 August 7, Emma Beddington, “Email makes my fingers tingle and my stomach drop with dread. Can’t we go back to pigeons?”, in The Guardian

(Internet) An email auto-reply informing people that the person they are trying to contact is not working and unavailable for an extended period of time.


MIL-CD

Initialism of music interactive live compact disc (“a multimedia format used with the Sega Dreamcast video game console”).


Caesar substitution

Caesar substitution (countable and uncountable, plural Caesar substitutions)


enbugging

From en- + bug + -ing, coined as an opposite to debugging.

(programming, humorous, rare) The introduction of bugs into a program.


prepender

Coordinate term: appender

(computing) A software component that prepends data to a computer file.


Rebecca purple

Named in memory of the daughter of Web standards advocate Eric A. Meyer.

Rebecca purple:

At this point, try previewing the results of our demo, if all is well, we should see the same box as before, but this time with a slightly lighter shade of rebecca purple as its color:

2016, Alex Libby, Mastering PostCSS for Web Design, page 376

In this example, instead of instantaneously changing a button's color value on hover, with CSS transitions the button can be set to gradually fade from magenta to rebecca purple over 200 milliseconds, even adding a 50-millisecond delay before transitioning.

2017, Eric Meyer, Estelle Weyl, CSS: The Definitive Guide: Visual Presentation for the Web, page 856

(Internet) A medium purple color represented by the hexadecimal RGB triplet #663399.


pajeetware

From pajeet (“a stereotypical Indian person”) + -ware.

suf

I still use process lasso. Windows scheduler pajeetware shenanigans, no thanks!

2019 September 13, u/CuddlyKitty1488, “Did Project Lasso become completely obsolete with latest Windows 1903 scheduler revision and Ryzen 3000?”, in Reddit, r/Amd, archived from the original on 2023-09-28

Twitter is peak pajeetware, it's so slow...

2023 May 26, @AVerySaneMan, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-09-28

Please post the code (lainchan), i want to see Microsoft pajeetware and make fun of it

2023 May 28, @felIowNwords, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-09-28

(4chan, computing, derogatory, sometimes humorous) Poor-quality software created in India.


sum of best

The runner's final time in the record-breaking speedrun was even faster than her previous sum of best.

(speedrunning) The total combined time of the fastest segments or splits achieved in a speedrun of a video game, representing the theoretical fastest time that a speedrunner could achieve at their current level of skill.


Wiknic

I find it regrettable that these events are only in the U.S. There are plenty of excellent Wikipedia contributors all around the world, and there are provisions for "Start[ing] an event for your city" (see the main Wiknic article), so I hope people from other countries will schedule local Wiknics soon.

2013 June 20, Berkeley Brett, “Wikipedia's own Manual of Style”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet)

On a recent Sunday, some members of the Wikimedia D.C. chapter — an eclectic mix of 50 or so area academics, professionals and all-around geeks — met up in Meridian Hill Park, not far from the White House, as part of the nationwide "Great American Wiknic." The group picnic, like the encyclopedia itself, was potluck.

2013 July 16, “The Great American Wiknic [edit]”, in NPR

(Wikimedia jargon) A picnic organized by Wikimedians.


quettabyte

(computing) One nonillion (10³⁰) bytes. SI symbol: QB.


template metaprogramming

(programming) A form of metaprogramming in which templates are used by a compiler to generate temporary source code, which is then merged with the rest of the source code and recompiled.


quettabit

(computing) One nonillion (10³⁰) bits. SI symbol: Qb.


ronnabit

(computing) One octillion (10²⁷) bits. SI symbol: Rb.


service worker

(Internet, programming) A scriptable network proxy in a web browser that manages network requests for a web page.


LWP

en-noun

LWP (countable and uncountable, plural LWPs)

(countable) (computing) Initialism of lightweight process.


glass terminal

A computer terminal that has a CRT or other type of video screen ('glass') for a display


gymfluencer

My skincare (and food) diet went out of the window in December, and as a result I'm feeling sluggish and my complexion is up in arms: dry patches, dullness, blemishes, the works. The last thing I feel like is squeezing into Lycra and standing next to smug matcha-drinking gymfluencers.

2020 January 12, Sarah Jossel, “Six beauty products to use while exercising”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-29

If eyes are the window to the soul, selfies are an insight into how we want the world to see us. Are you a gymfluencer or a pastel-pink VSCO girl? Are you a bougie London literary woman or a wellness freak?

2020 February 7, Zing Tsjeng, “People Show Us Their Favourite Selfies of Themselves”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2023-06-03

Every so often, a viral GymTok clip would make the rounds on the platform – and sometimes it's ugly. Some clips show TikTokers mock an unsuspected gym-goer for their form. Others show gymfluencers get frustrated because a person unintentionally 'ruins their video'.

2022 March 18, Becca Monaghan, “'This one absolutely disgusted me:' Man puts gym influencer on blast”, in Indy100, archived from the original on 2022-12-03

No matter if you are a gymfluencer, a professional sports person, or just a regular bum-owner, having strong glutes will keep you in good stride.

2022 November 8, Charlotte Ganderton, Adam Semciw, Matthew King, “Glute force: why big, strong bum muscles matter for your overall health”, in Stuff, archived from the original on 2022-11-08

We've had skinfluencers (dermatologists) and gymfluencers (PTs) but now there is a new breed of social-media savvy experts to follow. Enter the scentfluencers, a group of fragrance enthusiasts who are demystifying the, frankly often very wafty, world of scent.

2023 August 6, Verity Clark, “Would you wear a cauliflower-based perfume?”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-06

(social media, neologism) An influencer who primarily creates content related to fitness or bodybuilding.


megacharacter

The eighth column presents the capacity of one entire storage unit, in megabytes (or megacharacters); sometimes the unit is the same as the module, as in the case of the IBM 2311 disk pack, and sometimes it is an aggregate of modules, as in the case of the IBM 2314, or the RCA mass storage.

1969, David Lefkowitz, File Structures for Online Systems, New York, N.Y., Washington, D.C., page 203

400 megabytes, probably has 200 to 300 megacharacters. At .003 megacharacters per page ( 3000 characters per page) this is 66,000 to 100,000 pages to print out before the end of the year, or 133 to 200 reams of paper to print by the end of the year.

1999 January 22, Material Fellow, “The Y2k Survival CD!”, in oc.forsale (Usenet)

There's raw speed and then there's raw speed. Do you want to display, say, a megacharacter/second?

2005 June 8, Andrew Dalke, “Fast text display?”, in comp.lang.python (Usenet)

(computing, rare) One million characters.


multiversioning

(computing) The presence of, or support for, more than one version.


multiversioned

(computing) Having or involving more than one version.


pathfind

en-verb

pathfind (third-person singular simple present pathfinds, present participle pathfinding, simple past and past participle pathfound)

pathfinds (present singular third-person)
pathfinding (participle present)
pathfound (participle past)
pathfound (past)

Back-formation from pathfinding, equivalent to path + find.

If the warden has a targetable entity, is not investigating any disturbances, and is otherwise idle, it pathfinds toward the closest entity, prioritizing players over mobs.

(Can we date this quote?), “Warden”, in Minecraft Wiki

(computing) To find the best route between two points.


morpher

(computer graphics) A program or algorithm that carries out morphing animations.


HHD

en-noun

HHD (countable and uncountable, plural HHDs)

hybrid hard drive
hybrid hard drive#English

(computing) Initialism of hybrid hard drive.


writebehind

writebehind (countable and uncountable, plural writebehinds)

(computing) The operation of initially writing data to a cache and later copying it to permanent storage.


Twitterese

To learn Twitterese, review the tweets of other users to see how they’re condensing messages. Just remember to turn off Twitterese when you send an email to someone or compose a letter.

2010, Jan Zimmerman, Doug Sahlin, Social Media Marketing All-in-One For Dummies®, Wiley

Responding to a woman I’ve never met who works in book publishing, I type in the language of 140-character Twitterese: “I want Mr. T GPS voice! How abt James Earl Jones? He says turn left you *turn* left. Or Norah Jones? Plaintive directions.”

2013, Adam L. Penenberg, Play at Work: How Games Inspire Breakthrough Thinking, Portfolio

The role of celebrity is to anchor a group (known in Twitterese as ‘followers’) into present-tense meaningfulness or future-facing conditions, which may be why newly minted celebrities are ever younger in the most prominent international popular-culture systems (Hollywood; music; social media).

2014, John Hartley, Jason Potts, Cultural Science: A Natural History of Stories, Demes, Knowledge and Innovation, Bloomsbury Academic, published 2016, page 86

We might say that moving through all three languages from Shakespeare to Twitterese involves imaginatively going beyond the givens, creating a startling and novel declaration: “horses go all cannibal . . .”

2016, John Barell, Moving from What to What If?: Teaching Critical Thinking with Authentic Inquiry and Assessments, Routledge

Based on the internet linguistics research (cf. Crystal 2006, 2008), we propose a unitary analysis of “paralinguistic devices” such as hashtags and punctuation devices found in Twitterese which ascribe “tonal colouring” to utterances, serving to express humour, sarcasm, irony, and self-deprecation.

2018, Ewelina Prażmo, “Twitterati in the Twitterverse: A Cognitive Linguistics Account of Hashtags on Twitter”, in Rafał Augustyn, Agnieszka Mierzwińska-Hajnos, editors, New Insights into the Language and Cognition Interface, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, part three (Multimodality in Language Processing), page 118

On second look, the mainstream media resisted reporting the Anti-Theory story (~atoe in Twitterese) because it seemed so catastrophic.

2019, Eric J. Adams, Cosmic Fever, Black Rose Writing, page 132


nano-COM

(programming) The use of a very small subset of the Component Object Model, focused exclusively on the Application Binary Interface (ABI) aspects that enable function and method calls across independently compiled modules.


HEIF

The HEIF format is not yet the de facto image file at the time of writing. Apple, Inc. adopted HEIF for image media storage on iOS in 2017.

2019, Nanette L. Salvaggio, Josh Shagam, Basic Photographic Materials and Processes, Routledge, page 173

High Efficiency Image File
w:High Efficiency Image File Format

(computer graphics, file format) Initialism of High Efficiency Image File, a container format for storing individual images and image sequences.


HEIF

(computer graphics) An image file in the HEIF format.


The Dress

“The Dress” is an excellent example of light source, reflectance, and shadow indeterminacy.

2019, Daniel T. Willingham, Cedar Riener, Cognition: The Thinking Animal, page 74

(Internet slang) A dress, a photograph of which became an online viral phenomenon in 2015 as debate raged over whether it was blue and black or white and gold.


ABNF

Backus-Naur form
Backus-Naur form#English

(computing) Initialism of augmented Backus-Naur form.