RROD

Alternative form: RRoD

For quotations using this term, see Citations:RRoD.

red ring of death
red ring of death#English

(video games) Initialism of red ring of death.


supersampler

(computer graphics) A program or algorithm that supersamples.


quarter-eater

From quarter (“25-cent coin”); the machine would be repeatedly "fed" with these coins to continue a game.

(US, informal, video games) A coin-operated arcade game.


logic error

(programming) a case in which a programmer writes viable code that however produces undesired results


immunochip

(immunology, computing) Any of several chips used in computational immunology


keyswitch

(computing) A mechanical switch associated with a key on a keyboard.


or it didn't happen

Derived from pics or it didn't happen, replacing pics with something else that is demanded as proof like links or video.

To paraphrase a popular Internet meme, share your movie or it didn't happen.

2014, Jeff Carlson, iPad and iPhone Video: Film, Edit, and Share the Apple Way, Peachpit Press, page 145

(Internet, humorous) Unless one can provide the proof that one is requesting, that person has no credibility in the matter.


sadfishing

Blend of sad + catfishing, implying that this is an exploitative and deceptive online act.

A report […] says that accusations of so-called sadfishing could be further harming already vulnerable children and young people with mental health problems.

2019 October 1, Sally Weale, “Young people who seek support online being accused of ‘sadfishing,’”, in The Guardian

(Internet slang) The practice of writing about one’s unhappiness or emotional problems on social media, especially in a vague way, in order to attract attention and a sympathetic response.


postroll

(Internet, advertising, chiefly attributive) An advertisement that plays after the main content.


stacklessness

(programming) The property of being stackless.


framerule

to save a framerule

In this run, I arrived two framerules earlier.

When I play the game there's no accidentally saving a frame rule. That's physically impossible. You have to do some really crazy specific strategies to save any time beyond what the current record does.

2017 October 12, David Snyder, Speedrunning: Interviews with the Quickest Gamers (Studies in Gaming), McFarland, →OCLC

(speedrunning) A multiple of frames (video pictures), at the beginning of which the game performs a check, typically as to whether the player reached an area.


captology

Coined by American behavior scientist B. J. Fogg in 1996, from the initials of computers as persuasive technologies + -ology.

coin

In the last decade, persuasion has been investigated in two apparently distinct lines of research: captology, and teaching as persuasion.

2006, Wijnand IJsselsteijn, Yvonne de Kort, Cees Midden, Berry Eggen, Elise van den Hoven, Persuasive Technology: First International Conference on Persuasive Technology for Human Well-Being, PERSUASIVE 2006, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, May 18-19, 2006, Proceedings, Springer Science & Business Media, page 145

The relatively new field of computers as persuasive technology (captology) has begun to explore the powerful effects of presentation of information on computers.

2015, Rand J. Spiro, Michael DeSchryver, Michelle Schira Hagerman, Paul M. Morsink, Penny Thompson, Reading at a Crossroads?: Disjunctures and Continuities in Current Conceptions and Practices, Routledge, page 142

The study of computers as persuasive technologies.


pseudoinstruction

The compiler constructs one or several instructions corresponding to the respective pseudoinstruction and adds them to the object program just being formed.

1967, Information processing machines, number 13, page 239

(programming) A command that resembles, but is not in fact, a machine instruction, such as a special directive or a command that is mapped to a sequence of real instructions.


Tcler

programming language
programming language

(programming) A user of the Tcl programming language.


type juggling

(programming) In the PHP programming language, the automatic treatment of variables as a certain data type depending on the context in which they are used.


Tcl

This command causes the Tcl interpreter to search the paths defined by the auto_path variable and find the package named mort.tcl.

2000, David Maggiano, CGI Programming with Tcl, Addison Wesley Longman

(computer languages) A high-level, dynamically-typed, and interpreted programming language.


wireform

Of course, any wireform described in a data structure such as that in Table 8-1 can replace the simple cube.

1983, Daniel L. Ryan, Computer Programming for Graphical Displays, page 234


SASL

w:Simple Authentication and Security Layer

(computing) Initialism of Simple Authentication and Security Layer.

St Andrews Static/Standard Language
w:SASL (programming language)

(programming) Initialism of St Andrews Static/Standard Language.


NERDS

Acronym of Node.js, Express.js, React, and databases using SQL, or a set of similar names. Attested from the late 2010s.

acronym

I wanted to share an example of how to get NERDS (Node, Express, React, Database using SQL) stack up and running on Heroku.

2018 August 22, Shawn Cheng, “Examples setup for NERDS stack”, in Medium, archived from the original on 2021-05-19

The app also offers data visualizations and a video chat platform for users to engage with each other.
Built using:
• NERDS stack (Node.js, Express, React/Redux, Sequelize/PostgreSQL)
• News API […]

2020 August 9, Fullstack Staff, “5 Fabulous Feminist Coding Bootcamp Projects”, in Grace Hopper.com

The two most common of all JavaScript stacks that utilize Express.js are MEAN stacks and NERD stacks. Remember, these are just acronyms—please don’t be mean to nerds! […] The NERD stack is very similar. It stands for Node.js (the runtime environment; yes they moved it to the front to make the acronym more fun), Express.js (the server), React (the front end framework), and Database (this can be any database really. This is because the industry is moving away from sticking to a specific database and it makes the acronym more fun).

2020 November 10, Ethan Scully, “Express.js: Courses, Training, and Other Resources”, in Career Karma

(computing) A stack of technologies used to develop web applications.


regexer

(computing, informal) Someone who uses regular expressions.


last man standing

(video games) A multiplayer deathmatch gameplay mode in which the last surviving player is the winner.


new game plus

First used in the game Chrono Trigger (1995).

Players want to experience the different weapon systems, so they will try the “New Game Plus” after they clear the story.

2016, Rosa Bottino, Johan Jeuring, Remco C. Veltkamp, Games and Learning Alliance: 5th International Conference

(video games) The option to play again through a previously completed game, carrying over characters, attributes, or equipment from the previous play session.


chungus

en-noun

chungus (countable and uncountable, plural chunguses or chungi)

/ˈt͡ʃʌŋ.ɡəs/

From chunk. Compare humongous (“extremely large”, adjective) or dingus (“any object or thing; a foolish person”, noun), and chonk. Attested from the late 2010s.

Why did i even open my disgusting chungus eyes this morning

Im a fat disgusting unloveable chungus piece of shit

I thought it couldn't get any more chungus. I was wrong.

my final straw. goodbye. fuck my stupid chungus life.

(Internet slang, humorous, attributive) A nonsense word or placeholder, often used incongruously in self-deprecating or doomer-like speech.

Media Literates™ replying to this and proving the point. Fascism is apparently anything that's not CHUNGUS DEMOCRACY.

Trad Chungus Russia is going to save America and Europe!

I swear "Hitler as wholesome chungus ethno-pluralist" is the lamest historical revision ever.

(Internet slang, ironic, attributive) Something that is correct, consensus, or without fault, as part of a straw man.


open world

Role-play games […] they use a closed visual world of walls or grids or open worlds across computer systems

2004, Paul Grover, “Computer Games in Your Hands”, in Visual Texts (The Heinemann English Project), Port Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic.: Heinemann Harcourt Education, page 15

Open world games (sometimes referred to as "sandbox games") are one of the most popular genres of video games. They typically feature non-linear gameplay, the ability to roam the game world freely any way the player chooses, unscripted interaction with non-player characters (NPCs), and a living, breathing city, countryside, or fantasy environment to explore.

2007, David Hutchinson, “Kid-friendly Grand Theft Auto”, in Playing to Learn: Video Games in the Classroom, Westport, Conn.: Teachers Ideas Press, Greenwood Publishing Group, page 110

Liberty City, the virtual space of Grand Theft Auto III, can be interpreted as the spatial universe that qualitatively changes and combines the limited character attributes of the inhabiting non-player characters. Because they all seem to live and act in such a huge open world, they appear to be more complex themselves.

2008, Michael Nitsche, “Combining Interaction and Narrative”, in Video Game Spaces: Image, Play, and Structure in 3D Worlds, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, part I (Structure), page 54

The Saints Row games are open worlds, and many consider the Grand Theft Auto series to also be open worlds.

2014, Carolyn Handler Miller, “Video Games”, in Digital Storytelling: A Creator’s Guide to Interactive Entertainment, 3rd edition, Burlington, Mass.; Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Focal Press, part 4 (Media and Models: Under the Hood), page 283

The second category of storytelling that coexists in GTA [Grand Theft Auto]’s open world takes the form of player-driven stories.

2017, Chris Solarski, “Transitions in Open-world Games”, in Interactive Stories and Video Game Art: A Storytelling Framework for Game Design (An A K Peters Book), Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, section II (The Dramatic Curve and Transitions), page 170

What Guy doesn’t know, but the audience surely will (it's all over the trailers), is that he's not a real person at all but rather an NPC—or non-player character—in a popular and extremely violent open-world video game.

2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds Action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite Age”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2023-04-19

(video games, also attributive) A gameworld that the player may traverse freely, rather than being restricted to certain predefined areas and quests.


one-trick

en-verb

one-trick (third-person singular simple present one-tricks, present participle one-tricking, simple past and past participle one-tricked)

one-tricks (present singular third-person)
one-tricking (participle present)
one-tricked (participle past)
one-tricked (past)

(video games, transitive, intransitive, derogatory) To consistently play a video game using only one of the available characters or skill sets.


one-trick

(video games, derogatory) A player who consistently plays a video game using only one of the available characters or skill sets.


en-noun

1v1 (countable and uncountable, plural 1v1s)

I got back into StarCraft in 2007 and got really, really into competitive 1v1, and followed the Korean pro gamer scene and all that.

2017, David Snyder, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, Speedrunning: Interviews with the Quickest Gamers

If you’re getting into 1v1s but can never manage to eliminate your foe first, then you need to work on your aim and reflexes.

2019, Tyler Blevins, Will Partin, Ninja: Get Good: My Ultimate Guide to Gaming, New York, N.Y.: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, page 77

From the sound of it, there was only one of them. If they had all come at me together, I would’ve been able to sweep them all at once with explosions. They’d probably taken that into account already. So they’re going to go for 1v1s, huh?

2023, Tsuyoshi Fujitaka, translated by Kevin Chen, These Legs Don’t Lie! Harumi’s Legacy as the Strongest Mimic, volume 1, J-Novel Club

player versus player
player versus player

(video games) A style of player versus player gaming in which one player is pitted against one other player.


en-verb

1v1 (third-person singular simple present 1v1s, present participle 1v1ing, simple past and past participle 1v1ed)

In any other universe, they’d probably be 1v1ing Batman since you’re sure they’re the Joker incarnate.

Moreover, if you ever have a class on Upper Campus, you can get off at the second stop which is High St, saving you the trouble of 1v1ing Basser Steps.

2016 February, Bizzness One, UNSW Business Society, page 16

1V1 ME BRO

Is she pissed that I barely did anything in our last battle but took all the credit and gloated in the end anyway?! Does she want to 1v1 me?!

2022, Kota Nozomi, translated by Tristan K. Hill, When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace 2, J-Novel Club

JLINGZ was spurred on by it, Oscar ‘Yuki’ Jiang (江铭亮) felt the boost as he 1v1ed eventual winner Phillip ‘ImperialHal’ Dosen, and the home advantage had a palpable effect.

2023 February 16, Ben Sledge, “ALGS New Boys Northeption Are Here To Stay”, in TheGamer, archived from the original on 2023-02-16

(video games, sports) To compete as one player pitted against one other player.


Brewer's theorem

Named after computer scientist Eric Brewer.

(computing theory) A theorem stating that it is impossible for a distributed data store to simultaneously provide more than two of three guarantees: consistency (every read receives the most recent write or an error), availability (every request receives a non-error response, without the guarantee that it contains the most recent write), and partition tolerance (the system continues to operate despite an arbitrary number of messages being dropped or delayed between nodes).


turbofish

/ˈtɝboʊˌfɪʃ/

From turbo- + fish; coined by Anna Harren in 2015, originally in jest, later adopted by official documentation.

For static method calls, you can supply the type parameter explicitly using the turbofish ::<> notation:

2017 November 21, Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff, Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

The turbofish operator in generic functions appears right after the function name and before the parenthesis.

2019 January 31, Rahul Sharma, Vesa Kaihlavirta, Mastering Rust, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 122

You can add a turbofish to a function call with the syntax function::<Type>(). For example, collect::<Vec<MyType>>().

2021 June 30, Herbert Wolverson, Hands-on Rust, Pragmatic Bookshelf

(programming) A syntactic element in Rust, ::<>, with arguments between < and >, that specifies the generic arguments of a function in an expression.


burnination

Burnination! O'Meara swore as I rolled up to my feet, pain pricking along my ribs where Feather's claws had found flesh.

A minced oath used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt, etc.


playersexual

en-adj

playersexual (comparative more playersexual, superlative most playersexual)

more playersexual (comparative)
most playersexual (superlative)

All of the marriageable characters in farming simulator Stardew Valley are "playersexual", meaning they will marry the player regardless of gender.

2016 December 29, Gita Jackson, “2016 Was A Great Year For 'Shipping Our Favourite Characters”, in Kotaku Australia

The fact that 65 characters can be interested in a same-sex relationship within Skyrim but only with the player is indicative of the fact that these characters are not bisexual, pansexual, or some other form of plurisexual—they are playersexual.

2020, Alayna Cole, Dakoda Barker, Games as Texts: A Practical Application of Textual Analysis to Games, unnumbered page

DA2 provides a notable contrast with both Origins and Inquisition in that all non-DLC romanceable characters are “playersexual”; […]

2020, Alexandra M. Lucas, “Innovative Origins, Playersexuality, & Complex Inquisition: The Evolution of Relationship Mechanics in Dragon Age”, in Lindsay D. Grace, editor, Love and Electronic Affection: A Design Primer, page 183

(video games, of an NPC) Attracted to the player character, especially without regard to gender, race, etc.


data member

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(object-oriented programming) Synonym of member variable


unfielded

(computing) Of data: not organised in a set of fields.


wear leveling

(computing) A technique for extending the service life of some kinds of erasable storage media, such as flash memory, by arranging data so that erasures and rewrites are distributed evenly across the medium.


Kernighan-Lin algorithm

Devised by Shen Lin and Brian Kernighan.

(computing theory) A heuristic algorithm for finding partitions of graphs, having important applications in the layout of digital circuits and components in VLSI.


Lin-Kernighan heuristic

travelling salesman problem
travelling salesman problem

(computing theory) In combinatorial optimization, a heuristic for solving the symmetric travelling salesman problem, involving the swapping of pairs of subtours to make a new tour.


Fiduccia-Mattheyses algorithm

the Fiduccia-Mattheyses algorithm (canonical)

Introduced in a 1982 paper by Fiduccia and Mattheyses.

(computing theory) An iterative heuristic algorithm for bipartitioning a hypergraph.


permutation box

en-noun

permutation box (plural permutation boxes)

(cryptography) A method of permuting or transposing bits (binary digits) across S-box inputs while retaining diffusion.


galaxy-brain

en-adj

galaxy-brain (comparative more galaxy-brain, superlative most galaxy-brain)

more galaxy-brain (comparative)
most galaxy-brain (superlative)

From a popular image macro meme in which a series of increasingly absurd or surreal thoughts is paired with images of a human brain expanding and emitting progressively brighter beams of light, thus ironically framing the ideas as too profound for average minds to comprehend.

On the surface, none of this makes sense. Yet it becomes rational once you explore the context—in fact, if you glimpse the bigger picture, the scene crosses the threshold into galaxy-brain logic.

2018 September 20, Barry Thompson, “Heavy Leather Topless Dance Party”, in DigBoston, page 12

Permatemp, the upcoming album from A. J. Herring's usually one-man band Velma and the Happy Campers, seeks to explore the galaxy-brain realization that the only permanent thing about life is its impermanence.

2019, Natalia Galicza, "For The Record", The Fine Print, Winter 2019, page 10

Hollywood is no stranger to the occasional galaxy-brain take, but this one is pretty out there—as Warner Bros. execs evaluated Todd Phillips’s Joker script back in 2017, they reportedly found themselves in “lively conversations” centered around one jarring question: Does Joker really need to be about, like, the Joker?

2019 October 28, Laura Bradley, “Does Joker Really Have to Be About the Joker? Warner Bros. Execs Reportedly Debated Just That”, in Vanity Fair

(Internet slang, sarcastic) Appearing to be insightful and profound, but actually absurd, incomprehensible, or nonsensical.


warm boot

(computing) The restarting of a computer that was already running, rather than switched off.


swap space

So called because data can be swapped between memory and this space.

(computing) Space on a hard disk used as auxiliary memory.


swap partition

So called because data can be swapped between memory and this partition.

(computing) A disk partition designated as auxiliary memory, used primarily on Unix and Linux systems.


microthread

(computing) A thread (typically one executed in parallel) in a microprocessor


file association

en-noun

file association (countable and uncountable, plural file associations)

Help me change the file association of TXT files.

File association in Microsoft Windows relies on the file extension.

(computing) The association of a file type with a program, so that the chosen program is the default for opening files of that type.

文件關聯

拡張子の関連付け (kōchōshi no kanren-zuke, literally “adding associations to file extensions”)

ファイルの関連付け (fairu no kanren-zuke, literally “adding associations to files”)

関連付け (kanren-zuke, literally “adding associations”)


mumfluencer

She'd spent the weekend replying to the PRs offering money for branded content, setting up meetings and feverishly researching the 'mumfluencer' thing.

She is a UN Global Ambassador for Gender Equality, writes a column for Mother & Baby magazine, and was recently crowned the Number 1 Mumfluencer in the magazine.

(UK, informal, neologism) A mother who is an influencer on social media, typically using this platform to promote consumer products, offer parenting advice, or document her child's upbringing.


Robloxian

(video games) A player of the video game Roblox.


Robloxian

en-adjective

Robloxian (comparative more Robloxian, superlative most Robloxian)

more Robloxian (comparative)
most Robloxian (superlative)

Members who have played Roblox for one year or longer earn the Veteran Badge. Roblox considers these players to be loyal members who have stuck with the community and helped make it the game it is today. According to Roblox, “These medalists are the true steel, the core of Robloxian history…and its future.”

2017, Christina Majaski, The Ultimate Unofficial Guide to Robloxing: Everything You Need to Know to Build Awesome Games!, New York, N.Y.: Sky Pony Press, page 40, column 1

(video games) Of or pertaining to Roblox.


Internet hunt

Mr Giles says he is honoured that Mr Lockwood, a friend and co-worker, chose him for the first internet hunt — even if Mr Lockwood had to grab his rifle and finish off that wild hog after Mr Giles's first shot didn't quite do the job.

2005 March 3, “Virtual adrenalin”, in The Economist

The next internet hunt is scheduled for April 9. Dale Hagberg, 38, from Indiana, who has been paralysed from the chin down for 18 years, will use a joystick operated by his mouth to shoot at a blackbuck antelope.

2005 March 20, Toby Harnden, “Hunters queue up to shoot live animals over the internet”, in The Telegraph

During an Internet hunt, Gasson explained that a “hunter” will sit in front of a computer in any location, visit a Web site that offers hunts for a fee of about $1,500-$2,000 and wait as an animal — often a deer fenced into a small area — is lured into the sights of a remote-controlled gun with Purina Deer Chow.

2009 January 30, Carrie Haderlie, “Virtual hunting shot down”, in Laramie Boomerang

The bill also bans hosting an Internet hunt, enabling someone else to hunt through the Internet, and importing, exporting or possessing wildlife that's been killed by an Internet hunt.

2011 February 4, “North Dakota bill aims to prohibit hunting via Internet”, in Park Rapids Enterprise, archived from the original on 2020-06-21

The practice of hunting animals by controlling a firearm over the Internet.

One, a professor of psychology at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, called for an "Internet hunt for the immoral foreigner" and called repeatedly for the man to be "found and kicked out of China!!!"

2006 June 4, “From flash mob to lynch mob”, in CNN

Naked shark straddler sparks internet hunt

2017 May 12, Daily Mercury, archived from the original on 2020-06-22

A collective search for a person by Internet users; attempted doxxing.


nonalertable

A file-copying example highlights NT's potent asynchronous I/O features, contrasting the extended (i.e., alertable) read, write, and wait functions with their standard (i.e., nonalertable) counterparts.

The bottom line: perform nonalertable waits unless you know you shouldn't.

2003, Walter Oney, Programming the Microsoft Windows Driver Model, page 201

Blocking is done with a nonalertable wait, and waiters are released in a roughly FIFO order, although the lock is unfair and will permit concurrent acquisition attempts to succeed.

2008, Joe Duffy, Concurrent Programming on Windows

(computing) Not alertable; not listening for notifications from other threads of execution.


alertable

Since your thread is in an alertable state, as soon as an APC entry appears, the system wakes your thread and empties the queue (by calling the callback routines).

2000, Jeffrey Richter, Jason D. Clark, Programming Server-side Applications for Microsoft Windows 2000

If you know the HANDLE of a thread you wish to signal, and that thread has performed an alertable wait, then queueing an APC is often significantly quicker than waking the target thread by using kernel objects (as we are about to review).

Every thread has a queue of APCs attached to it, and these are processed when the thread is in an alertable state, such as when they call functions like WaitForSingleObjectEx, WaitForMultipleObjectsEx, and Sleep.

2012, Michael Sikorski, Andrew Honig, Practical Malware Analysis

(programming) Capable of receiving and responding to notifications from other threads of execution.


relational operator

en-noun

relational operator (plural relational operators)

(computing) synonym of comparison operator


comparison operator

comparison operator (plural comparison operators)

(computing) a binary operator that tests for equality or inequality and evaluates to true or false


conditional operator

conditional operator (plural conditional operators)

(programming) synonym of ternary operator


cache buster

(computing) A tag or value included in a request (such as a URL) purely to differentiate it from previous requests and thus avoid receiving a cached response.


draw distance

draw distance (countable and uncountable, plural draw distances)

(computer graphics) The maximum distance from the camera at which objects are rendered in a three-dimensional scene.


chuntey

Coined on the comp.sys.sinclair newsgroup, from an accidental misspelling of chutney.

The hardware itself is largely indifferent to the happy little chuntey particles, as it focuses it's energy on flinging sub-atomic and extra-atomic particles across it's transistors and capacitors. These particles are miserable, unlike the happy chuntey and will try to harm unlucky chuntey particles as they hurtle past.

2001, Adam Short, “I could do with some help here - networks and stuff”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet)

It interfaces with the latent chuntey receptors built into all PCs since the PC-AT, but rarely used these days. Via clever use of the Windows DDK I've managed to provide a means of detecting the level of chuntey in the room thus simulating a virtual wobble at the precise moment a real ZX81 would.
Alternatively, after a random number of keypresses, it may decide to either corrupt one row, one column or just a single byte of the 4116 RAM chips - but that's mere hearsay.

2005, Mike Wynne, “Feature Requests”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet)

Are you seriously trying to force a disruption of the chuntey?
I have a bad feeling about this.....

2006, Matt Rudge, “Wanted: gif of a loading thing”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet)

What a time to return, eh?
Are you psychic? Felt a disturbance in the chuntey?

2007, spi...@freenet.co.uk, “Some very sad news”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet)

And think of the chuntey. There you are, quietly setting up your shiny new ZX Methuselah, your mum walks into the room and suddenly you're 112 and she wants you to read her a story about ponies.

2007, Duncan Snowden, “GODFOREBID, but it willll happen one day................”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet)

I've also successfully used Ian Rawlings as a computer, although he's not Turing complete and the chuntey is exceptionally strong within him.

2008, SnakeOilSteve, “OT is SIM card a computer ?”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet)

The veteran games programmer Fred Williams, who wrote several classic titles for Codemasters, reminded me about ‘The Chuntey’, the name given by Spectrum fans to the invisible field surrounding the machine’s cassette player into which only positive vibes could be admitted or else the process would break down. Loading was a religious ceremony and the sounds were sacrosanct.

2019 August 27, Keith Stuart, “Click, whir, ping: the lost sounds of loading video games”, in The Guardian

(computing, slang, humorous) A supposed aura surrounding the cassette loading mechanism of the ZX Spectrum computer, highly sensitive to disruption, which will cause the loading process to fail.


DNT

(Internet, advertising) Initialism of Do Not Track.


crown graph

(graph theory) An undirected graph with 2n vertices in the two sets { u₁, u₂, ..., uₙ } and { v₁, v₂, ..., vₙ } and with an edge from uᵢ to vⱼ whenever i ≠ j.


cissplain

en-verb

cissplain (third-person singular simple present cissplains, present participle cissplaining, simple past and past participle cissplained)

cissplains (present singular third-person)
cissplaining (participle present)
cissplained (participle past)
cissplained (past)

Don’t ask us about transgenderism only to cissplain how we’re still “really” our birth sex and always will be.

2012, Natalie Reed, "How To Ask A Trans Person Questions Without Being Insensitive About It", quoted in Benjamin Zimmer, Jane Solomon, & Charles E. Carson, "Among the New Words", American Speech, Volume 89, Issue 4 (2014), page 480

(colloquial, derogatory, chiefly Internet) To explain transgender issues, people or behavior to a trans person (as a cis person) in a condescending manner, presuming the listener’s inferior understanding.


non-printable character

en-noun

non-printable character (plural non-printable characters)

You also can include non-printable characters in the strings by including a backslash followed by the character that represents the non-printable character.

2002, Davis Howard Chapman, Sams Teach Yourself Visual C++ .Net in 21 Days, Sams Publishing, page 42

control character
control character#English

(computing) Synonym of control character


on rails

So, first of all, let's clear it out of the way: it is not possible to deorbit any of the moons in the game. They are all on rails, and nothing you can do will adjust their orbit in any way whatsoever.

2012 November 10, Scott Manley, 0:18 from the start, in What does it Take To Deorbit A Moon In Kerbal Space Program, archived from the original on 2022-09-26

(video games, of a character or object) Constrained to travel along a preset fixed path.


legendary Pokémon

legendary Pokémon (plural legendary Pokémon)

After catching the legendary Pokémon Mewtwo, nothing could stand between the trainer and her ultimate goal of becoming the greatest trainer of all time.

Any of the extremely rare and often very powerful Pokémon specifically designated as such by official sources of Pokémon information.


Xbone

From abbreviation of Xbox One for quicker use on Twitter.

(video games, slang) Abbreviation of Xbox One.


Xbone

From a blend of Xbox + bone, variously from the idea that Microsoft was "boning" their customers with their planned digital rights management and game licensing policies for the Xbox One, or from the idea that Microsoft was "throwing a bone to" gamers by changing their controversial digital rights management and game licensing policies for the Xbox One. May also have been coined from Microsoft's press conference during E3 2013, during which Phil Spencer, the head of Microsoft Studios at the time, partially obscures the Xbox One wordmark placed behind him.

(slang, video games, derogatory) Synonym of Xbox One


borkage

borkage (countable and uncountable, plural borkages)

It is just a simple borkage. It be a mean thing. But it could not be stated that the program failure was of extremely high importance, not – it was just a typical accident, and some of them occurs from time to time in the Dream System Centre.

Sadly, 2018 was not done with the devices and further borkages followed later in the year.

2018 December 25, Richard Speed, “Microsoft's 2018, part 1: Open source, wobbly Windows and everyone's going to the cloud”, in The Register

Stop yawning at the back, this stuff may not be fancy new iPhones or sweet silicon stuff, but it's good for code-wrangling developers struggling to spot borkages in their work.

2019 September 19, Roland Moore-Colyer, “GitHub buys Semmle to add flaw-spotting code analysis into its repositories”, in The Inquirer

The issue follows a string of public cloud outages; a reminder that even the best resourced IaaS companies are not immune to development and infrastructure borkage.

2019 November 11, Ed Targett, “Google Cloud in Major Global Outage: Numerous Services Fail”, in Computer Business Review


link-dead

(computing) Of a character in a multi-user dungeon: stuck in a frozen state, but still visible to other players, as a result of sudden disconnection by the user without logging out.


mudhead

[…] true mudheads sometimes spent so much time at it that they lost jobs, alienated friends, and failed to obtain academic degrees in the quest to attain wizard status.

1997, Stuart Berg Flexner, Anne H. Soukhanov, Speaking Freely, page 72

“Is anybody still playing it now? On the Internet, I mean.”
“I doubt it. Real MUDheads were so offended by it that they sabotaged the games and spammed the players […]

2016, Jeffery Deaver, The Blue Nowhere, page 104

(computing, slang, rare) A dedicated participant in multi-user dungeons.


katamari

From Japanese 固(かた)まり (katamari, “clump”), popularized by the 2004 video game Katamari Damacy and its sequels, in which players have to roll everyday objects into huge balls.

... a lawyer from Washington says he met Obama on Mars after listening to David Wilcock discuss jump rooms on UFOs, somewhere back behind all the extra details that have been tacked on at every point in this chain like a katamari

2013, S Peter Davis, Occam's Nightmare, Lulu.com, page 5

Also, like a katamari, she tended to destroy things in her path. I would miss her. Hopefully marriage wouldn't change her too much.

2017 March 14, Max Wirestone, The Astonishing Mistakes of Dahlia Moss, Hachette UK

It's like a Katamari effect. It would take only the slightest hint of a revolution to roll it all up.

2022 March 20, Douglas Palermo, 2021: A Year Inverse, iUniverse

Sunk costs snowball, like a katamari. The resources you have already spent make it less likely you will quit, which makes it more likely you will accumulate additional sunk costs, which makes it again less likely you will quit[…]

2022 October 4, Annie Duke, Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, Random House

Something which rolls up other objects, growing increasingly large.


iSheep

From i- + sheep in lowerCamelCase, the style used for several Apple products.

(collective, derogatory) uncritical Apple Inc. fans


Turing tape

Turing tape (countable and uncountable, plural Turing tapes)

(computing theory) The infinitely long memory tape on which a Turing machine would operate, consisting of individual cells that can be read or written.


Voldemort type

Named after Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter novels, who is typically called "He Who Must Not Be Named" or "You-Know-Who" by other characters, as he magically enforces a ban on his name being spoken.

RandomNumberGenerator becomes a type that is inside generator's scope. It is simply not visible outside of generator. It cannot be named — hence it's a Voldemort Type.

2012 May 7, Walter Bright, “Voldemort Types In D”, in Dr Dobb's

A recent issue I discovered (and no doubt has been encountered before) is that using Voldemort types in D can result in insane symbol bloat.

2016 May 23, Steve Schveighoffer, “Have your Voldemort types, and keep your disk space too!”, in Steve Schveighoffer's Blog

(programming) A data type that is unspeakable.


Dubeolsik

A hangul keyboard layout (or any of its derivatives). The consonants are on the left, and the vowels are on the right.


desktop mascot

Calque of Japanese デスクトップマスコット, from English desktop + mascot.

Snoopy is the general desktop mascot, but users can enjoy various characters, such as Woodstock for mail receipt confirmation, as well as a Snoopy alarm.

2001, Dai Nihon insatsu kabushiki kaisha, editor, Annual Report

(Japan) (A computer program that places) an interactive character on the desktop.


Sebeolsik

A hangul keyboard layout (or any of its derivatives). 첫소리 (cheotsori) and 끝소리 (kkeutsori) forms of consonants are input using different keys.


Hedetniemi's conjecture

Formulated by Stephen T. Hedetniemi in 1966.

(graph theory) A conjecture concerning the connection between graph coloring and the tensor product of graphs. A counterexample was found in 2019.


ADUC

(computing) Acronym of Active Directory Users & Computers.


route redistribution

(computing) The exchange of routing information, on a router, between different routing protocols.


Chromebook

Technically a Chromebook is just a portable computer running Google's Linux-based Chrome OS, but the majority of Chromebooks are light, inexpensive, relatively modest in computing power and storage, and on the small end of the laptop spectrum.

2016, Mike Meyers, CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

You can view a complete list of supported Chromebooks, Chromeboxes and Chromebases below: (followed by a list of devices from various manufacturers)

2016 May 19, Dan Graziano, “These are the Chromebooks that support Android apps”, in CNET

Chrome OS tablets may be the new hotness, but the vast majority of devices that have shipped with Google’s Chrome operating system over the years have been laptops… also known as Chromebooks. But a few years ago we also saw the introduction of a few other categories including Chromeboxes (mini desktop computers), Chromebits (PC-on-a-stick devices), and Chromebases (all-in-one, iMac-like desktops).

2019 February 4, Brad Linder, “Chromebases are still a thing”, in Liliputing

"Chromebooks, Chromebases, and Chromeboxes automatically manage updates to ensure your device always has the latest software and security features," said Google.

2019 December 19, Marius Nestor, “Chrome OS 79 Adds Media Controls in Lock Screen, Mouse Acceleration Control”, in Softpedia News

A generic ChromeOS-based network-terminal-style netbook.


refactorer

(computing) A person or system that performs refactoring.


GPIB

(computing) Initialism of general-purpose interface bus.


buddy memory allocation

(computing theory) A form of memory allocation that divides memory into partitions to try to satisfy a memory request as suitably as possible.


e-girl

Coordinate term: e-boy

Instagram is one main social media platform where e-girls post pictures or videos of themselves showing off their outfits and modeling them.

2019 May 20, Annaliese Olivo, “E-girl fashion develops into lifestyle from online jokes”, in The Eagle's Eye, W. Charles Akins High School, page 21

Let the e-girls put hearts on their faces and dye their hair.

2019 October, Claire Clements, “Claire's Corner: The VSCO Phenomenon”, in The Sidekick, page 9

The popular 2019 #softgirlchallenge, in which teens edited their videos so they appeared to spontaneously transform from grungy e-girl to glimmering soft girl particularly conveys how lightly Gen Z wears its group affiliations.

2019 December 4, Andrienne Matei, “TikTok's soft girls: could a hyper-cute aesthetic be a symbol of empowerment?”, in The Guardian

(Internet slang) A female member of the e-girl/e-boy subculture which emerged in the late 2010s, characterized by emo- and grunge-inspired fashion, and by heavy use of social media platforms (notably TikTok).


FCM

FCM (countable and uncountable, plural FCMs)

(computing) Initialism of fuzzy cognitive map.


FCM

Firebase Cloud Messaging
w:Firebase Cloud Messaging

(cloud computing) Initialism of Firebase Cloud Messaging.


Unix philosophy

(computing) An approach to software development based on the experience of developing the Unix operating system, emphasizing the creation of minimalist, modular, extensible code that can be easily maintained and repurposed.


Send

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface, often put into quotation marks) Alternative form of send (email icon)


impl

(programming) Clipping of implementation.


video shifter

(computing) A device in a computer that takes video data from the CPU and converts it to a serial bitstream in order to generate an output signal.


chipster

Computerworld
The PC chipsters, such as Motorola and Intel, plan to compete with themselves by shipping aggressively priced and powered reduced instruction set computing (RISC) chips.

Every two or three years, the chipsters managed to quadruple the number of transistors per chip.

1995, SouthWest Organizing Project, Intel Inside New Mexico, page 5

(informal, computing) A microchip manufacturer.


appliance computer

appliance computer (plural appliance computers)

While consumer computers offer color graphics, joysticks, and other video game spinoffs, their computational ability is not nearly as powerful as that of some similarly priced appliance computers.

1988, Random House Value Publishing, Home Computers, page 53

While the MK14 was providing British enthusiasts with an affordable way to explore microprocessors, the first “appliance computers,” the Commodore PET2001 and Apple II, were being released in the USA.

2014, Gerard Alberts, Ruth Oldenziel, Hacking Europe: From Computer Cultures to Demoscenes, page 53

(computing, dated) A computer sold to consumers as a unit ready to be switched on and used, rather than a kit for self-assembly.


JHTML

Hypertext Markup Language
Hypertext Markup Language#English

(programming) Initialism of Java within Hypertext Markup Language.


failsoft

1973, ACM Special Interest Group in Operating Systems, Fourth Symposium on Operating System Principles
The second phase of the executive development proceeded through two steps as stated in Section 2. First, a failsoft executive was developed providing automatic failure detection and recovery […]

After automatic self-test, an important follow-on step in improving test set availability is the incorporation of failsoft features in the control software in conjunction with hardware capabilities.

1980, Autotestcon '80: 2-5 November 1980, Sheraton Washington, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

The redundancy of components (computers, database management systems, operating systems, databases) inherent in a distributed environment makes the system failsoft […]

1987, Mary E. S. Loomis, Data Base Book, page 387

graceful degradation
graceful degradation

(computing, dated) Supporting graceful degradation, so that a partial failure does not bring down the entire system.


Spotify

According to co-founder Daniel Ek, "Spotify" is a mishearing from a name shouted by Martin Lorentzon; they retroactively coined its etymology as a combination of spot + identify.

An online music and audio streaming service founded in 2006 in Stockholm by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon.


zatsudan

(livestreaming) An idle chatting stream.


soft-sectored

(computing) Of a storage medium: divided up by soft sectoring.


hard-sectored

(computing) Of a storage medium: divided up by hard sectoring.


hard sectoring

Coordinate term: soft sectoring

(computing) The use of a physical mark or hole to reference sector locations within a magnetic or optical recording medium.


soft sectoring

Coordinate term: hard sectoring

(computing) The recording of layout data onto a magnetic or optical recording medium in order to designate the sector locations, as opposed to using physical marks or holes.


TV typewriter

(computing, historical) A kind of video terminal that could be used with a standard television set.


Büchi automaton

Büchi automaton (plural Büchi automatons or Büchi automata)

Büchi automatons (plural)
Büchi automata (plural)

Named after the Swiss mathematician Julius Richard Büchi, who invented this kind of automaton in 1962.

(computing theory) A type of ω-automaton that extends a finite automaton to infinite inputs. It accepts an infinite input sequence if there exists a run of the automaton that visits (at least) one of the final states infinitely often.


elsethread

(Internet) Elsewhere within a thread of discussion (on a mailing list, newsgroup, or forum).


hyperscale

(computing) Able to scale appropriately as increased demand is added to the system.


Shannon's maxim

Kerckhoffs's principle
Kerckhoffs's principle

(cryptography) "The enemy knows the system" — a restatement of Kerckhoffs's principle.


jagged array

(programming) An array of arrays in which the component arrays are of varying lengths.


sparse array

(programming) An array in which most of the values are zero.


bit array

(programming) An array structure which store bit (0,1) values.


dense array

(programming) An array in which most of the values are non-zero.


Blub paradox

Coined by Paul Graham, who used a hypothetical programming language called Blub as an example.

(programming) The situation where a programmer sees less powerful programming languages than those he/she knows as lacking in important features, but more powerful ones as having bizarre or unnecessary features.


gigabinary

(computing) Relating to the units prefixed gibi-, such as the gibibyte as opposed to the gigabyte.


kilobinary

(computing) Relating to the units prefixed kibi-, such as the kibibyte as opposed to the kilobyte.


megabinary

(computing) Relating to the units prefixed mebi-, such as the mebibyte as opposed to the megabyte.


anaphoric macro

anaphoric macro (plural anaphoric macros)

(programming) A macro that captures some supplied form that can then be referred to within the macro.


tail merging

(computing) The grouping together of the final partial blocks of multiple files, so as to save space in a file system.


read-around ratio

read-around ratio (plural read-around ratios)

(computing, historical) In cathode-ray-tube storage systems, the number of times that a value can be read from a given cell without corrupting adjacent stored values.


goat file

Named thus because the file acts as a "sacrificial goat".

(computing) An executable file with a known structure and/or file size, designed to be infected by a file-infecting computer virus in order to facilitate the study of such.


planning poker

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) A consensus-based technique for estimating development time (or other goals) in which participants lay down numbered cards to indicate their estimates.


indify

en-verb

indify (third-person singular simple present indifies, present participle indifying, simple past and past participle indified)

indifies (present singular third-person)
indifying (participle present)
indified (participle past)
indified (past)

(programming) Change a particular functionality to use invokedynamic calls.


double dabble

binary-coded decimal
binary-coded decimal

(computing theory) An algorithm that converts binary numbers into binary-coded decimal notation by means of shift and add operations.


recomment

recomment (third-person singular simple present recomments, present participle recommenting, simple past and past participle recommented)

recomments (present singular third-person)
recommenting (participle present)
recommented (participle past)
recommented (past)

When all these things are done and the blank lines are removed (and the code recommented), we have […]

1997, William B. Jones, Assembly Language for the IBM PC Family, page 586

Once you have run the program, you can “recomment” the line back to the way it was.

2015, Jack Purdum, Beginning C for Arduino, Second Edition

(transitive, programming) To convert (a portion of source code, configuration, etc.) back to a comment, so that it no longer takes effect.


sargability

(databases) The property of being sargable.


overscroll

Disabling overscroll
When you scroll a web page in the Android browser or mobile Safari, you'll notice that you can scroll past the end of the page. When you let go, the page springs back to the end position.

2014, Jacob Seidelin, HTML5 Games: Creating Fun with HTML5, CSS3 and WebGL, page 71

You can also customize the overscroll effect of a ScrollView to mimic a behavior native to the corresponding platform (which still looks noticeably different from native components anyway, despite being similar in concept).

2015, Mark Vasilkov, Kivy Blueprints, page 104

(graphical user interface) A feature where content being scrolled goes beyond its end point and bounces back, giving the user visual feedback that the end has been reached.


overscroll

overscroll (third-person singular simple present overscrolls, present participle overscrolling, simple past and past participle overscrolled)

overscrolls (present singular third-person)
overscrolling (participle present)
overscrolled (participle past)
overscrolled (past)

A fling gesture can overscroll the content, before returning the content to the correct position.

2015, Matthew Leibowitz, Xamarin Mobile Development for Android Cookbook, page 302

(graphical user interface) To perform this kind of scrolling and bouncing effect.


scope block

(programming) the region of a computer program where a name binding is valid


SARMO

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(military, robotics, artificial intelligence) Abbreviation of sense and react to military objects.; A technology methodology for automated weapons response


waterfall plot

A three-dimensional plot in which multiple curves of data, typically spectra, are displayed simultaneously, used for example to show how two-dimensional information changes over time.


data dictionary

en-noun

data dictionary (plural data dictionaries)

(computing) A document or repository that describes the data and metadata within a system.


blogola

An element more problematic […] in the move of corporate communications and practices online is the sometimes masked nature of such initiatives, for example through blogola and flogs.

2009, Nico Carpentier, Benjamin De Cleen, Participation and Media Production: Critical Reflections on Content Creation, page 33

(Internet) A form of payola in which a blogger is given money or other inducements to write favourably about a product or service.


gamebot

They weren't talking about a gamebot like Magdeil, who might be programmed to seek vengeance. This was the game's manager. Why would a MUD god attack someone?

1997, Jefferson Scott, Terminal Logic, page 256

Current anti-hack solutions are able to distinguish software-based keyboard events and mouse events in order to detect a gamebot for automatic item harvesting.

2007, Mario Freire, Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications

(computing) A bot (automated user) that takes part in a game or offers gaming functionality.


microlibrary

If you were to take a library like jQuery and pull it apart into all its different functions, it would form a bunch of microlibraries.

You should certainly explore the wealth of microlibraries available in the community and use the ones that solve your problems.

2014, Eric Elliott, Programming JavaScript Applications

(computing) A compact, minimalistic library (set of routines).


subalgorithm

(programming) An algorithm that forms a part of a larger algorithm.


nocoiner

She's as plugged into the cryptospace as anyone you will find, and it's unbiased since she's a “nocoiner,” meaning she doesn't invest.

2019, Ryan Derousseau, The Everything Guide to Investing in Cryptocurrency, Simon and Schuster, page 269

A person that does not hold or invest in any cryptocurrencies.


Bresenham's algorithm

Named after Jack Elton Bresenham, who developed it in 1962 at IBM.

(computer graphics) An algorithm that identifies which points (pixels) should be set in order to draw a straight line between two points.


iPhoner

Since Instagram became available for Android users yesterday, a lobby of "but that was OUR app!" tweets are starkly highlighting the rift between iPhoners and Androiders.

2012 April 4, Emily Dreyfuss, “iPhone users: Android is ruining our Instagram club”, in CNET, CBS Interactive Inc., published 2012, retrieved 2020-03-01


name binding

(programming) the association of entities (data and/or code) with identifiers


global scope

(programming) A type of scope that has an effect throughout an entire computer program.


dancing links

The name was suggested by Donald Knuth, because iterations of the algorithm cause the links to interact as if in an “exquisitely choreographed dance”.

(computing theory) A technique for reverting the deletion of a node from a circular doubly-linked list, particularly useful for efficiently implementing backtracking algorithms.


calligraphics

calligraphic projection
calligraphic projection

(computer graphics) The use of calligraphic projection.


calligraphic projection

(electronics, computer graphics) A system for displaying or projecting an image composed of a beam of light or electrons directly tracing the image, as opposed to sweeping in raster order over the entire display surface.


Christmas tree packet

Christmas tree packet (plural Christmas tree packets)

By analogy with a Christmas tree decorated with electric lights.

(computing) A data packet having every option set for whatever protocol is in use.


programmed random occurrence

programmed random occurrence (plural programmed random occurrences)

A mistaken expansion of the abbreviation proc, which actually originated from procedure (in the computer programming sense).

(video games) A random event, typically activated by clicking on an object


weird flex, but OK

In an ACU blog written in 2010, GATA's claim to fame is that they are the "oldest continuously named social club on the ACU campus" (weird flex, but OK).

2018, Lauren Franco, "Pink and green since 1919, ACU's oldest club", The Optimist (Abiline Christian University), 12 October 2018, page 10

To the girl who kept sending snapchats during lecture with her front flash on...weird flex but ok

2018, Courtney, quoted in "Shoutout," The Badger Herald (University of Wisconsin), 13 November 2018, page 21

Pencil – Doing assignments in pen? Weird flex but ok.

2019 September, Abby Paul, “What essential school supply did you forget?”, in The Bridge, University of Alberta, page 15

Much like when an actor in a play breaks the fourth wall and speaks to the audience, but the other characters on stage, who also witnss the actor speaking and acting, don't understand to whom the actor is actually talking, and in this case neither does the actor himself, as it is an unconscious address. One is left asking, "why are you telling me this or doing this?" Or in more modern lingo, "that's a weird flex, but OK."

2020, Bethany Morris, Chase Kelly O'Gwin, Sebasteinne Grant, Sakenya McDonald, Subjectivity in Psychology in the Era of Social Justice, Routledge

(Internet slang) Used to indicate that one finds an action or statement to be showy and strange.


femcel

From fem(ale) + -cel; a relatively new consolidation.

(loosely, Internet, slang, ironic) A woman associated with and/or adjacent to the incel "aesthetic", "vibe", or other connotations.


NDIS

w:Network Driver Interface Specification

(computing) Initialism of Network Driver Interface Specification.


liquidity provider

liquidity provider (plural liquidity providers)

(cryptocurrencies) decentralized exchange user who funds a liquidity pool with tokens they own to facilitate trading on the platform and earn passive income on their deposit


alt.

(prefix): The alt.* hierarchy was one of the largest sections of the online discussion system Usenet. In contrast to the "mainstream" hierarchies, such as comp.* which related specifically to computing, alt.* was the "alternative" hierarchy where opinions were shared on a wide range of miscellaneous subjects.

You've got your own newsgroup, alt.total-loser.

1999, "Weird Al" Yankovic (lyrics and music), “It's All About the Pentiums”, in Sean Combs (music), Running with Scissors

I was trying to say...Danny boy left the room during your hat sentence. He's gone back to alt.elitist.impatient-arrogant-farts-with-nsoh

1999 December 21, Christiana, “Scripts available anywhere?”, in alt.fan.eddie-izzard (Usenet)

If you're only interested in a socialist love-in, perhaps you should go to alt.bliss.ninnies?

2001 October 15, Rev. J. Thaddius, “The War Against Dissent (Simon Haupt)”, in alt.anarchism (Usenet)

Indicates a newsgroup, as used in fictional or hypothetical newsgroup names.


taphold

en-verb

taphold (third-person singular simple present tapholds, present participle tapholding, simple past and past participle tapheld)

tapholds (present singular third-person)
tapholding (participle present)
tapheld (participle past)
tapheld (past)

(computing) To press a key on a keyboard and hold it down for a second or so


CELT

Constrained Energy Lapped Transform
w:CELT

(computing) Acronym of Constrained Energy Lapped Transform: a royalty-free lossy audio compression format for use in low-latency audio communication.


circle-ellipse problem

Liskov substitution principle
Liskov substitution principle

(object-oriented programming) The problematic situation where a base class contains methods which mutate an object in a manner which may invalidate a (stronger) invariant found in a derived class, violating the Liskov substitution principle. For example, if a circle is modelled as a subtype of an ellipse, and the ellipse has a method that stretches it on one axis, the circle must also implement that method despite it making no sense for a circle.


musicon

(computing) A short music clip used to indicate something to the user.


keybounce

Many of you have experienced what we call “Keybounce” — multiple letters from one keystroke.

1978 November, Radio Shack Microcomputer Newsletter

A typical inexpensive key will settle down within five milliseconds, so if the keyboard scanning software polls the key less often than this, the controller will effectively miss the keybounce.

2004, Randall Hyde, Write Great Code Volume 1: Understanding the Machine, page 348

(computer hardware, electronics) Multiple recorded keystrokes from a single press of a key on a computer keyboard due to poor electrical contact.


ABA problem

ABA represents the change in value of a memory location from A to B and back to A.

The ABA problem is a fundamental problem to many CAS-based nonblocking designs.

2010, Damian Dechev, Peter Pirkelbauer, Bjarne Stroustrup, “Understanding and Effectively Preventing the ABA Problem in Descriptor-Based Lock-Free Designs”, in ISORC 2010 - 2010 13th IEEE International Symposium on Object/Component/Service-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing

(computing) In multithreaded computing, a case in which a program erroneously considers the equality of a variable at two times to mean it has never changed in between.


progressive enhancement

Over the past few years, progressive enhancement has been quietly adopted by some of the biggest and best sites on the web, precisely because it allows them to reach the widest possible audience.

2010, Todd Parker, Scott Jehl, Maggie Costello Wachs, Patty Toland, Designing with Progressive Enhancement: Building the Web that Works for Everyone, Pearson Education

(web development) A philosophy where a website's functionality is enhanced by JavaScript, rather than wholly reliant on JavaScript.


server-side rendering

en-noun

server-side rendering (plural server-side renderings)

When we talk about server-side rendering of websites, we are generally referring to an application or website that uses a programming language that runs on a server. On this server, the web pages are created (rendered) and the output of that rendering (the HTML) is sent to the browser, where it can be displayed directly.

2018, Bram Borggreve, Beginning Server-Side Application Development with Angular, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 2

(web development) A system in which the content of a website is generated on the server, before being sent to the browser.


single-page application

single-page application (plural single-page applications)

Coordinate term: progressive web application

The Single Page Application template sets you up for an application that's primarily driven via JavaScript requests to Web API services rather than the traditional web page request / response cycle.

2014, Jon Galloway, Brad Wilson, K. Scott Allen, David Matson, Professional ASP.NET MVC 5, John Wiley & Sons, page 20

(web development) A website where new content is shown by dynamically replacing existing content in the web page rather than navigating to a different URL.


Delaunay triangulation

Delaunay triangulation (countable and uncountable, plural Delaunay triangulations)

Named after Boris Delaunay for his work on this topic from 1934.

(geometry, computer graphics) For a given set P of discrete points in a plane: a triangulation DT(P) such that no point in P is inside the circumcircle of any triangle in DT(P).


depseudonymization

(computing) The reverse process to pseudonymization


keyfile

(computing) A file that contains encryption or license keys


genwunner

Respelled clipping of generation one + -er, possibly influenced by won.

(fandom slang, Pokémon, derogatory) Someone who likes only the first generation of the Pokémon franchise, especially when elitist or snobbish about later generations.


call by sharing

(programming) An evaluation strategy where arguments passed to a function can be mutated in a way that is visible to the caller (unlike call-by-value) but access is not given to the specific variables passed as arguments (unlike call-by-reference).


bone apple tea

From a food photo uploaded on Facebook by Dunta Pickett on 1 August 2016, which was captioned “My BIRTHDAY dinner to myself...bone Apple tea.” It was screenshotted and posted on the Worldstar Hip Hop Facebook page and spread as a meme in a few days.

Whoever gets this car next is going to be pissed because the steering wheel is covered in oily dressing. Bone apple tea!

2016 November, Jesse Standing, “Review: Abandoned Salad”, in The Moot Times, University of Calgary, page 10, column 4

He takes the other spoon, and we each dig out a bite of this gunk. I’m breathing through my mouth so I don’t have to smell so much of it, but all that means is I’m starting to taste it on the air instead. / “Ready?” Perry asks. / “Sure,” I say. “Bone apple tea.” / Perry laughs, and I hope there’s nothing called a bone apple that can be made into a tea, I’m just trying to be smartass while I can still talk without retching.

2017, L.A. Fields, “King of Fruits”, in Steve Berman, editor, His Seed: An Arboretum of Erotica, Unzipped Books, page 93

“Bone apple tea,” they say to each other as they grill chicken and saute broccoli.

2022 April 1, Good Boy, “The goodest boy”, in The Bull, volume 97, Searcy, Ark.: Harding University, page 4A, column 3

(humorous) Misconstruction of bon appétit


KF

But others are definitely not welcoming of Watkins' involvement. "Jim, as in Jim Watkins? If there's one surefire way to kill KF, it would be him taking over and running it into the ground lol," one user wrote.

2022 September 16, David Gilbert, anonymous quotee, “QAnon Celebrity and 8kun Owner Jim Watkins Claims He Bought Kiwi Farms”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2024-03-05

The idea that I'm responsible for her [Sorrenti's] thread being posted on KF [Kiwi Farms] is unbelievable to me.

2022 October 12, Morgan Sung, quoting Steven Bonnell, “Trans Twitch streamer Keffals is ready to return home”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 2024-05-16


E-R

(computing) Alternative form of ER; Initialism of entity-relationship.


UXD

(computing) Initialism of user experience design.


weak AI

weak AI (countable and uncountable, plural weak AIs)

weak artificial intelligence
weak artificial intelligence#English

(computing) Abbreviation of weak artificial intelligence.


full AI

full artificial intelligence
full artificial intelligence#English

(computing) Abbreviation of full artificial intelligence.


strong AI

strong artificial intelligence
strong artificial intelligence#English

(computing) Abbreviation of strong artificial intelligence.


strong artificial intelligence

strong artificial intelligence (plural strong artificial intelligences)

strong artificial intelligences (plural)

artificial general intelligence
artificial general intelligence#English

(computing) Synonym of artificial general intelligence


weak artificial intelligence

weak artificial intelligence (countable and uncountable, plural weak artificial intelligences)

(artificial intelligence) An artificial intelligence only capable of solving one specific problem or set of problems.


general intelligent action

general intelligent action (countable and uncountable, plural general intelligent actions)


narrow artificial intelligence

narrow artificial intelligence (countable and uncountable, plural narrow artificial intelligences)

narrow artificial intelligences (plural)

(artificial intelligence) Synonym of weak artificial intelligence


MISD

Coined by American computer scientist (*1934) Michael J. Flynn in 1966.

coin

(computing) Acronym of multiple instruction, single data.


MIMD

(computing) Acronym of multiple instruction, multiple data.


SISD

(computing) Acronym of single instruction, single data.


Flynn's taxonomy

(computing) A system for classification of computer architectures, based on the number of concurrent instruction (or control) streams and data streams available.


narrow AI

In the years since, my team has used them to help develop features on Pixel phones for specific “narrow AI” functions, such as face unlocking, image recognition, speech recognition and language translation.

2022 June 9, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, “Artificial neural networks are making strides towards consciousness, according to Blaise Agüera y Arcas”, in The Economist, →ISSN

narrow artificial intelligence
narrow artificial intelligence#English

(artificial intelligence) Abbreviation of narrow artificial intelligence.


full artificial intelligence

en-noun

full artificial intelligence (uncountable)


VTuber

From Japanese VTuber (VTuber), from English virtual + YouTuber.

virtual YouTuber
virtual YouTuber#English


transmiss

en-verb

transmiss (third-person singular simple present transmisses, present participle transmissing, simple past and past participle transmissed)

transmisses (present singular third-person)
transmissing (participle present)
transmissed (participle past)
transmissed (past)

From Latin trānsmissus, past participle of Latin trānsmittere.

Treaties transmissed by the President to the Senate for ratification […]

1890, United States. Congress House, ...Constitution of the United States: Jefferson's Manual, the Rules of the House of Representatives...and a Digest and Manual of the Rules and Practice of the House of Representatives.., page 188

A data processor 10 makes data communication with other data processor via a loop line with a transmissing receiving circuit 39.

1984, Patents Abstracts of Japan: Unexamined Applications

THE MODEL OF THE MEMBRANE SENSOR AS A DELAY LINE There is a possibility of modelling of the transmissing loss line in the SPICE programme.

1998, Optoelectronic and Electronic Sensors, Society of Photo Optical

Urgency clause read and adopted, bill passed, and ordered transmissed to the Assembly.

1999, California. Legislature. Senate, Journal of the Senate, Legislature of the State of California, page 4976

[…] a good microbiological safety record, there remains the theoretical risk of transmissing infectious agents […]

2014, P. L. Roberts, “Virus elimination during the purification of monoclonal antibodies by column chromatography and additional steps”, in Biotechnology progress

(chiefly law, computing, medicine, formal) To transmit.


code folding

(programming) A feature in many code editors that allows blocks of code to be "folded"; i.e. collapsed or hidden such that they can be shown again later.


screen scraping

(computing) A form of web scraping in which a program visually captures and processes data from a webpage.


data scraping

en-noun

data scraping (countable and uncountable, plural data scrapings)

(computing, uncountable) A technique in which a computer program extracts data from human-readable output coming from another program.

OpenCorporates collects corporate data from public open data sources, official APIs, and data scrapings, and transforms it all into a standard form.

2019, Jack Lord, “Corporate Ownership”, in Tim Davies et al., editors, The State of Open Data: Histories and Horizons, page 57

(computing, countable) An application of this technique.


web scraping

(computing) The scraping of data from websites


stim board

(Internet) A digital mood board composed of video fragments (usually in the form of animated gifs) conveying pleasant or satisfying physical sensation.


TikToker

“TikTok has brought a younger group of creators. That energy is kind of pushing on a lot of older creators,” said Josh Sadowski, 19, a TikToker with nearly four million followers who lived in another TikTok collab house.

2020 January 3, Taylor Lorenz, “Hype House and the Los Angeles TikTok Mansion Gold Rush”, in The New York Times (newspaper), retrieved 2020-04-06

When a young TikToker called @idrinkurmilkshake winkingly identified herself as a member of the “Pfizer Gang,” she kicked off a joking rivalry that tore ebulliently through the internet.

2021 April 27, Amanda Hess, “Inject the Vaccine Fan Fiction Directly Into My Veins”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(social media) A user of the video-sharing app TikTok, especially one who creates videos.


midamble

Modelled on preamble, with mid- replacing pre-.

(computing) A portion of data located in the middle of a file or stream.


EEE

embrace, extend and extinguish
embrace, extend and extinguish#English

(marketing) Initialism of embrace, extend and extinguish.


EEE

eastern equine encephalitis
eastern equine encephalitis#English

(medicine) Initialism of eastern equine encephalitis.

(geology, engineering) Initialism of earthquake environmental effect(s).

(technology, law) Initialism of electrical and electronic equipment.


Instaverse

In your continuous effort to be the king or queen of twitterverse and instaverse, you network with the people who are popular on the sites and request that they tweet “hey_____ is cool and he needs some followers! Go follow him!”

2013 February 28, Chantelle Simmons, “Somebody has to say it: Ten signs of a social media attention whore”, in The Yard, volume 1, number 3, Charleston, SC: College of Charleston, page 30

(Internet, informal) The world of users of the Instagram online photo-sharing service.


archaeoinformatics

(archaeology, computer science) The application of informatics to archaeology


de Bruijn graph

de Bruijn graph (plural de Bruijn graphs)

Named after the Dutch mathematician Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn.

(graph theory) A kind of directed graph representing overlaps between sequences of symbols.


de Bruijn-Erdős theorem

Named after the mathematicians Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn and Paul Erdős.

(graph theory) A theorem stating that, when all finite subgraphs of an infinite graph can be colored using c colors, the same is true for the parent graph.


SLERP

This filter is very straightforward to implement using the technique of spherical linear interpolation (SLERP) [8].

2001, Proceedings of the IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Augmented Reality, page 79

We have already mentioned that quaternions give very good visual results when interpolated using spherical linear interpolation, commonly known as SLERP.

2008, Mario Gutierrez, F. Vexo, Daniel Thalmann, Stepping into Virtual Reality, page 24

Third, in key frame animation, we can readily interpolate smoothly between two rotations represented by unit quaternions by using spherical linear interpolation (SLERP) [Shoemake, 1985] (see also Section 9.3).

2010, Ron Goldman, Rethinking Quaternions, page xiii

spherical linear interpolation
spherical linear interpolation#English

(mathematics, computing) Acronym of spherical linear interpolation.


SLERP

en-verb

SLERP (third-person singular simple present SLERPs, present participle SLERPing, simple past and past participle SLERPed)

SLERPs (present singular third-person)
SLERPing (participle present)
SLERPed (participle past)
SLERPed (past)

The rotation quaternion should be SLERPed in order to give the rotation interpolation a smooth curve.

2003, Evan Pipho, Focus on 3D Models - Volume 1, page 150

Inside this handler, we perform the actual transformation update of our _tracker calculating the current SLERPed Quaternion, and then converting it to the Matrix3D and finally to transform property of the object: private :Jnction

2011, Michael Ivanov, Away3D 3.6 Cookbook

Using continuously varying time, τ, the quaternionized limb is “SLERPed” towards the target until the target body pose is reached.

2018 October, CT Richards, LB Porro, “A novel kinematics analysis method using quaternion interpolation–a case study in frog jumping”, in Journal of theoretical biology, volume 454

(mathematics, computing) To interpolate by using SLERP.


self-closing

(web development, of an HTML or XML tag) In the form of (for example) {{#tag:syntaxhighlight|

In the form of (for example) {{#tag:syntaxhighlight|
|inline="True"|lang="html"}} or {{#tag:syntaxhighlight|
|inline="True"|lang="html"}}, without containing any content, as opposed to (for example) {{#tag:syntaxhighlight|text|inline="True"|lang="html"}}, which is composed of an opening ({{#tag:syntaxhighlight||inline="True"|lang="html"}}) and a closing ({{#tag:syntaxhighlight||inline="True"|lang="html"}}) tag.


walkback

AdaRAID supports multiple CPUs running concurrently, Ada data types, features include break points, watchpoints, timing, tracing, stepping, walkbacks, and histories of last n executions.

Walkbacks, inspectors, and debuggers are the heart of Smalltalk's debugging facilities. Walkbacks are displayed when Smalltalk detects an error or a breakpoint. The debugger offers many tools for detecting and correcting code errors.


piped link

In that case, you can link to that section with a piped link, and the link doesn't have to be at the beginning of the entry.

2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, page 316

(MediaWiki) An internal link with wikitext that creates hyperlinked text displayed on a page that is different from the title of the page to which the text links.


K/D

en-noun

D (countable and uncountable, plural Ds)

kill-to-death ratio
kill-to-death ratio#English

(video games) Abbreviation of kill-to-death ratio.


K/D ratio

D ratio (countable and uncountable, plural D ratios)

Doom offered a good, two minute release, but my K/D ratio was terrible. I needed something new, with a bit more space in game to get my bearings before getting shot.

2018 March 5, Curtis Silver, “I'm Terrible At 'Fortnite' But Can't Stop Joining The Battle Royale Of Punishment”, in Forbes

Kill-to-death ratio
kill-to-death ratio#English


kill-death ratio

kill-death ratio (countable and uncountable, plural kill-death ratios)

NFL fans know that San Francisco 49ers cornerback Richard Sherman can lock down an opposing team's top receiver and play at the game's highest level. ¶ But what about his kill-death ratio in Call of Duty: Warzone?

2020 April 18, Chris Bumbaca, “Pro Call of Duty players team up with celebs, go from big stage back to where they started”, in USA Today

(video games) Alternative form of kill-to-death ratio.


kill-to-death ratio

kill-to-death ratio (countable and uncountable, plural kill-to-death ratios)

While “dying” in a video game is not much of a consequence itself, most game types in FPS involve respawning, allowing players repeatedly to throw themselves back into the battle. Even a highly skilled player with thousands of hours in online multiplayer matches will have a kill-to-death ratio hovering around 2.00 and will have witnessed several thousand deaths of his avatar.

2019, John Paul Wallis, Jay Mechling, “Playing Video Games”, in PTSD and Folk Therapy: Everyday Practices of American Masculinity in the Combat Zone, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, page 93

(video games) In multiplayer fighting and shooting video games, the number of kills a player scores divided by the number of deaths.


noob cannon

In addition to my first grenade kill ever (well, I mean in the game), I got accused of cheating. […] I think what prompted it was a round where I went absolutely fuckin' Ghengis with the noob cannon. I was brought down in a hail of small-caliber gunfire, but only after splattering 5 separate crania with 00 buck.

2000 December 29, Brian Trosko, “CS Cheating”, in alt.games.half-life (Usenet)

first-person shooter
first-person shooter

(slang, derogatory, video games) In first-person shooter games, a weapon that is popular with beginner players, usually due to its ease of use.


black room

(cryptography) A governmental facility for intercepting and decrypting communications.


oh worm

Humorous misspelling of "Oh, word?" as it appeared in an advice animal of late 2016. Spread through Tumblr as an Internet meme through early 2017.

I woke up today and I just don't feel like doing anything.
Oh worm. I know what you mean.

(Internet slang, humorous) Yes; I understand or can relate.


Metropolis light transport

Metropolis light transport (uncountable)

Metropolis-Hastings algorithm
Metropolis-Hastings algorithm

(computer graphics) The application of a variant of the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm to the rendering equation for generating images from detailed physical descriptions of three-dimensional scenes.


gamma correction

From the use of the Greek letter gamma in the mathematical notation.

(computer graphics) A nonlinear operation used to encode and decode luminance or tristimulus values in video or still image systems.


forcing function

forcing function (plural forcing functions)

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) An aspect of interface design that restricts a user's abilities in order to streamline completion of a task.


back-seat gaming

Excessive commenting on the actions and decisions of someone playing a video game by a person who is not playing the game.


Adoribull

"Adoribull" Homosexuality

2016, Kim Johansen Østby, "From Embracing Eternity to Riding the Bull: Representations of Homosexuality and Gender in the Video Game Series Mass Effect and Dragon Age", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 319

Firstly, the game only hints at the Adoribull relationship and does not provide more than a dozen dialogue lines, which enables fan writers to develop this relationship freely and divert from the original storyline.

2018 April, Gaspard Pelurson, “Mustaches, Blood Magic and Interspecies Sex: Navigating the Non-Heterosexuality of Dorian Pavus”, in Game Studies, volume 18, number 1, unnumbered page

I personally, love Adoribull as a ship. I think it is one built entirely on mutual attraction and want, that develops into a proper romance.

2019, "Aslinncosplay", quoted in Olga Svedin, "Fans som bråkar: Fans reaktioner på representationer av queerhet i dataspelet Dragon Age: Inquisition", thesis submitted to Stockholm University, page 38

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Dorian Pavus and the Iron Bull from the video game Dragon Age: Inquisition.


reply guy

Since the release of his new song “Yummy”, Bieber has been needier on social media than that reply guy who keeps popping up in your DMs with “you up?” messages.

2020 February 5, Annie Lord, “Why Justin Bieber’s TikTok campaign for ‘Yummy’ is so embarrassing”, in The Independent

This is a wonderful feature for reply guys and other less aggressive individuals, as they will never know you've muted them but you will never have to see their content again, unless you choose to.

2022, Nina Jankowicz, How to Be a Woman Online: Surviving Abuse and Harassment, and How to Fight Back, page 45

I got trolled. As a female, we're the Twitter reply guys' punching bags. They don't like women in a position of agency.

2022, Beth Nakamura, quoted in Paul Martin Lester, Stephanie A. Martin, & Martin Smith-Rodden, Visual Ethics: A Guide for Photographers, Journalists, and Media Makers, unnumbered page

(Internet, informal, derogatory) A male commenter who leaves frequent, unsolicited, and often inappropriate replies on a woman's social media posts.

I joke that my mother is my Twitter “reply guy.” Anytime I tweet, well, anything, I can expect a response in record time.

2019 October 16, Annabelle Williams, “Letter from the Editor”, in 34th Street Magazine, page 2

They use Google alerts to stay on top of Olympic-related topics, monitoring key phrases. They are known to clap back at politicians, Olympic honchos, and journalists whose work they wish to critique (or occasionally high-five). They'll also do “reply-guy” interventions, sliding into people's feeds to drum up conversation.

2021, Jules Boykoff, NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beyond, unnumbered page

There is no deeper hive of scum and villainy than Twitter. But if you're already on there, worry about your own feed. Worry about being accurate and truthful. Don't be a reply guy. Just do your own feed. Ted Cruz doesn't need to know you hate him. He knows.

2022 December, Monica Elkinton, “Convention speaker advocates larger Supreme Court”, in The Alaska Bar Rag, page 14

(Internet, informal, derogatory) Any person who leaves such replies on someone's social media posts.


reply guy

en-verb

reply guy (third-person singular simple present reply guys, present participle reply guying, simple past and past participle reply guyed)

reply guys (present singular third-person)
reply guying (participle present)
reply guyed (participle past)
reply guyed (past)

(Internet, informal, derogatory) To reply to a social media post as a reply guy.


BroShep

The fact that advertising for Mass Effect 3 included “FemShep” as well as “BroShep” was significant for many fans.

2012, Jillian Scharr, "From 'Epic' to 'Epic Win': Play and performance as open-database storytelling in pre- and postliterate media", paper submitted to Vassar College, page 83

While BroShep displays obliviousness to issues of "reproductive rights and control over the female body," FemShep expresses solidarity with the female Krogan, Eve, indicating there are some galactic power struggles only FemShep can truly understand.

2017, Lynda Clark, “Commander Shepard”, in Jaime Banks, Robert Mejia, Aubrie Adams, editors, 100 Greatest Video Game Characters, page 44

There is little deviation between the FemShep and BroShep scripts for the romance with Liara, which positions Commander Shepard as an experienced soldier (and lover) pursuing the naïve, reticent academic.

2020, Amanda Phillips, Gamer Trouble: Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture, page 148

(fandom slang, video games) The male version of the Commander Shepard player character in the Mass Effect series.


Curselax

Unfortunately, the most widespread confusing move is kinda useless against the Curselax.

2001 June 29, Talen, “Anti-Curselax Measure”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (Usenet)

Snorlax (Kulgdor) [...] Earthquake Body Slam Curse Rest [...] Standard Curselax, he will do well in stadium and the game.

2002 July 18, Worry, “Re: [Rate my Team] This Team Sux v. 4.0”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (Usenet)

This is my favorite pokemon of the new G/S pokes. I'm not sure about the item for this one, but this is mainly to deal with Curselaxes.

2011 May 15, FL1PPED Out, “[G/S] Team, Please Rate”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (Usenet)

(fandom slang) A moveset of a Pokémon that includes Curse and Rest.


FemShep

Playing as FemShep hints that the game world's claims to gender equality may be overstated.

Interestingly, this seems the reason why FemShep is considered to be one of the most popular heroines in gaming history (Cobbett 2012: online), or even one of gaming's first true feminist and feminine protagonists (Hillier 2011).

2018, Silvia Pettinni, “Gender in Game Localization: The Case of Mass Effect 3's FemShep”, in Irene Ranzato, Serenella Zanotti, editors, Linguistic and Cultural Representation in Audiovisual Translation, unnumbered page

A reveal trailer for Mass Effect Legendary Edition went live several hours ago, and fans have been watching it over and over. As has Jennifer Hale, the voice actor who played the female version of Commander Shepard across all three games, or "FemShep" as the character was dubbed.
Though her performance made FemShep more popular with hardcore fans, the marketing for the original games tended to focus on the default "BroShep", voiced by Mark Meer. Until now. This trailer shows a montage of scenes from across the series, and while BroShep is there—that's him macking on Miranda—there's more screen-time devoted to FemShep.

2021 February 2, Jody Macgregor, “FemShep finally gets her due in Mass Effect Legendary Edition trailer, Jennifer Hale extremely stoked”, in PC Gamer, archived from the original on 2021-02-03

(fandom slang, video games) The female version of the Commander Shepard player character in the Mass Effect series.


mukbanger

While for some mukbangers, the ASMR effect is part of the overall mukbang experience, ASMR videos are a whole world unto themselves with a wide range of variants […]

2020, Tania Lewis, Digital Food: From Paddock to Platform

Indonesian mukbanger Kim Thai has partnered rather appropriately with digestion aid Pepto-Bismol, while the American star Nikocado Avocado advertises the computer game Cooking Diary.

2020, Noreena Hertz, The Lonely Century, Hachette

Some cross-cultural studies on mukbang also report that its global spread can be understood through its sexual aspect, as it facilitates “a sexualized gaze to attractive mukbangers while they are in a somewhat private and vulnerable state […]

2020, Hyesu Park, Understanding Hallyu: The Korean Wave Through Literature, Webtoon, and Mukbang, Taylor & Francis

(social media) A person who creates and publishes mukbang videos.


browserish

en-adj

browserish (comparative more browserish, superlative most browserish)

more browserish (comparative)
most browserish (superlative)

✦ BrowseDisplayMode: This is the mode for interacting with the page in a normal browserish way. When you clicked a date in the previous example, the Web parts interacted in Browse mode.

2006, Doug Lowe, Jeff Cogswell, Ken Cox, “Advanced ASP.NET Programming: Building Portals with Web Parts”, in ASP.NET 2.0 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, page 821

(informal, computing) Resembling or characteristic of a web browser.


nonbrowser

(computing) In Microsoft Windows, a computer that is not capable of maintaining and distributing a browse list.


webification

(computing) The process or result of webifying; conversion to a World Wide Web format.


polygon soup

en-noun

polygon soup (countable and uncountable, plural polygon soups)

(computer graphics, informal) An arbitrary collection of polygons with no particular distinguishing traits, thus possibly difficult to decompose for rendering.


seqlock

(computing) A locking mechanism for supporting fast writes of shared variables between two parallel operating system routines, incrementing a counter at each stage to verify consistency.


play-by-mail

Heimito Gerhardt, a fan of gaming by mail, presented Conrad and me with our own play-by-mail kits as he accompanied us to the bus station. It so happened that Heimito corresponded with Rex Douglas (one of Conrad's idols), the great American gamer and star writer for one of the most prestigious of the specialized journals, The General.

2011, Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer, The Third Reich, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 25

(games) Describing a game that can be played in a turn-based fashion through postal mail or email.


majority problem

(cellular automata) The problem of finding one-dimensional cellular automaton rules that accurately perform majority voting.


Molex to SATA, lose all your data

(computer hardware, Internet) Using a Molex-to-SATA adapter to power a storage device may lead to loss of data, as a poorly designed and unreliable connector may cause damage by failing in an unsafe manner.


deformatter

(computing) Something that deformats; a remover of formatting.


Witchblr

But what ties Witchblr and the Cult of Kek together, despite their diametrically opposed viewpoints, is that each is dissatisfied with the real world and their inability to change those circumstances, and thus each has created its own sheltering cosmology.

2018 April 3, Emma Grey Ellis, “Witches, Frog-Gods, and the Deepening Schism of Internet Religions”, in Wired

Witchblr is a mixture of fashion and wellness trends, spiritual beliefs and feminist politics.

2018 November, Jen Tombs, “Be Witched”, in Study Breaks, volume 30, number 8, page 19

Granted, most millennial denizens of “Witchblr” are more likely to cleanse their homes with sage, say, or practice mindfulness meditation than to cast a curse on Republican lawmakers.

2019 June 7, Tara Isabella Burton, “The Rise of Progressive Occultism”, in The American Interest, volume 15, number 1

(Internet slang) The community of witches and occult-oriented blogs on Tumblr.


e-boy

Coordinate term: e-girl

E-boys wear baggy sweaters, beanies and sometimes face piercings.

2019 April 5, Maddy Garcia, “Rise of the E-Girl: internet's latest trend”, in The Phoenix, Fremont High School, page 5

The e-boy is her playful, middle-parted counterpart. Ears pierced. Nails painted. He makes us question what we once found so appealing about Zac Efron's eight-pack and Channing Tatum's gorilla-like shoulders.

2020 February 20, Grace Tucker, “E-boys and E-girls: a new, nonchalant counterculture”, in The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan, page 6

Whilst the dress is not vastly different between e-girls and e-boys, the content they put out seems to be.

2020, Francesca Ionescu, "E Girl And E Boy Phenomena", Q3 (Cardiff University), Issue 9, 29 April 2020, page 2

(Internet slang) A male member of the e-girl/e-boy subculture which emerged in the late 2010s, characterized by emo- and grunge-inspired fashion, and by heavy use of social media platforms (notably TikTok).


attack vector

(computing) A path or method used by a hacker to gain access to a target system, such as a computer or network server.


load module

(programming) The executable form of a program that is produced by a linkage editor, taking as input the output of a compiler and/or assembler


linkage editor

(computing) A utility program that combines load modules (typically of subroutines) etc. to produce an executable program


stealth nerf

en-verb

stealth nerf (third-person singular simple present stealth nerfs, present participle stealth nerfing, simple past and past participle stealth nerfed)

stealth nerfs (present singular third-person)
stealth nerfing (participle present)
stealth nerfed (participle past)
stealth nerfed (past)

(transitive, slang, video games) To cripple or weaken an element of a video game (such as a character, a weapon, or a spell) without announcing the change to the playerbase.


stealth nerf

(slang, video games) The weakening or worsening of an element of a video game (a character, a weapon, a spell, etc.) in an update without the change being announced to the players of the game.


screen crunch

(video games) The condition in which a video game's camera focuses too closely on the player character, partially obscuring the player's sight radius within the game.


soft paywall

Soft paywalls retain more users than hard paywalls - by a big margin.

(Internet) A paywall that allows limited free access, such as by allowing each user to read a certain number of articles per month without paying.


bulletproof hosting

(Internet) A web hosting service that allows customers to publish all kinds of material, including spam, pornography, etc. that may be forbidden on other services.


bulletproof host

en-noun

bulletproof host (plural bulletproof hosts)

(Internet) A company offering bulletproof hosting.


hard paywall

(Internet) A paywall that hides all content from unregistered or nonpaying users.


unikernel

Coordinate term: microkernel

The general idea behind unikernel systems is not entirely new, as it builds up on top of the concept of library operating systems such as exokernel or Nemesis.

2016, Bartok, David, Walt, Estee van der, Lindemann, Jan, Eschrig, Johannes, Plauth, Max, Proceedings of the Third HPI Cloud Symposium "Operating the Cloud" 2015, Universitätsverlag Potsdam, page 37

In the unikernel approach, a developer selects a minimal set of libraries from a modular stack which correspond to the OS constructs required for their application to run.

2017, Kai Hwang, Cloud Computing for Machine Learning and Cognitive Applications: A Machine Learning Approach, MIT Press, page 143

(operating systems) A specialised, fixed-purpose machine image which can run directly on hardware or a hypervisor without an operating system such as Linux.


memey

en-adj

memey (comparative memier, superlative memiest)

memier (comparative)
memiest (superlative)

Today his view is essentially that ROFL is just another element of the information cycle: he is the founder of BuzzFeed.com, a news-and-entertainment aggregator that’s partly devoted to these new sources of memey entertainment.

2010 July 16, Rob Walker, “When Funny Goes Viral”, in New York Times Magazine, →ISSN

It’s true that things that seem very zeitgeisty at the moment may be incomprehensible to future generations,” he said. That’s particularly true these days, as each new word seems more memey than the last.

2015 January 16, Jessica Bennett, “At the Super Bowl of Linguistics, May the Best Word Win”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

While you’ll find a giddy variety of sounds on TikTok – ranging from the classic ('Paint It Black' by the Rolling Stones is currently trending) to the extremely memey (‘Be Gone Thot’ by an alien influencer called Lil Mayo) – the most consistently trending sounds tend to err towards the childlike.

2019 October 31, Emma Madden, “TikTok has broken rap music”, in Wired UK, →ISSN

(informal) Characterized by or relating to memes.


LSTM

In 2015, Google announced it had managed to improve the error rate of its voice recognition software by almost 50% using LSTM. It is the system that powers Amazon’s Alexa, and Apple announced last year that is using LSTM to improve the iPhone.

2017 April 18, Philip Oltermann, “Jürgen Schmidhuber on the robot future: ‘They will pay as much attention to us as we do to ants'”, in The Guardian, retrieved 2021-07-30

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

long short-term memory
w:long short-term memory

(artificial intelligence) Initialism of long short-term memory.


μP

When you think of current microprocessors (μPs), the Intel Itanium processor with 592 million transistors may come to mind. […] Clearly today's FPGAs will not be able to implement such a top-of-the-range μP with a single FPGA.

2007, Uwe Meyer-Baese, “Microprocessor Design”, in Digital Signal Processing with Field Programmable Gate Arrays, 3rd edition, Berlin: Springer Science+Business Media, page 537

(computing) Abbreviation of microprocessor.


APIC

When dealing with interrupt problems, try disabling APIC support.

2020, chapter 11, in The FreeBSD Handbook

(computing) Initialism of Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller.


Blu-ray drive

(computer hardware) An optical drive used for reading data from and possibly writing data on a Blu-ray disc.


HD DVD drive

(computer hardware) An optical drive used for reading data from and possibly writing data on a HD DVD.


DVD drive

(computer hardware) An optical drive used for reading data from and possibly writing data on a DVD.


CD drive

(computer hardware) An optical drive used for reading data from and possibly writing data on a compact disc.


tbf

(Internet, text messaging) Alternative letter-case form of TBF


memery

However, I would like to suggest that option 5, MORE MEMERY, would make alt.religion.kibology a better place. EVERYONE, MAKE UP MORE MEMES, WE MUST INCREASE OUR ROBUST EXPORTS OF NEOLOGIC MEMERY!

1998 November 9, James Kibo Parry, “what do we want poll”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet)

For example, “Memery: imitation, memory, and internet culture” at Massachusetts Museum of Modern Art in North ... A very comprehensive list of Ryan Gosling memes can be seen at http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/hey_girl_i_know_ ...

2014, Christopher Schaberg, Robert Bennett, Deconstructing Brad Pitt, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, page 133

"Figuring out why the internet grew attached to SpongeBob is like trying to figure out why the internet likes (or dislikes) anything. It just happens. But something about Hillenburg's show proved irresistible to memery. The show’s characters—and its titular hero specifically—are expressive enough to communicate a mood in a single frame. The show's wholesome, if slyly subversive, tone makes recontextualizing those faces all the funnier."

2018 November 27, tmc...@gmail.com, “SpongeBob creator Stephen Hillenburg's legacy lives on in countless internet memes”, in alt.tv.nickelodeon (Usenet)

(Internet slang) The distribution of memes (usually humorous material copied and circulated online).


kettle lead

(computing, loosely) The similar-looking C13/C14 coupler lead, commonly used to power computer equipment.


autoscroller

It would be tough to sim accurately, but I suppose you could just have someone saying whatever you see on the autoscroller.....

2001 June 17, Larry Roberts, “Title Fight 2001 Questions”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.sports (Usenet)

Super Mario Bros 3 a Nintendo exclusive classic (World 8 - first autoscroller) and […]

2014, Bogdan Ion Purcaru, Games vs. Hardware. The History of PC video games: The 80's, Purcaru Ion Bogdan, page 470

(video games) A section of a two-dimensional video game which automatically scrolls the player through it.


SGB

(video games) Initialism of Super Game Boy.


unnuke

en-verb

unnuke (third-person singular simple present unnukes, present participle unnuking, simple past and past participle unnuked)

unnukes (present singular third-person)
unnuking (participle present)
unnuked (participle past)
unnuked (past)

(computing, warez, transitive) To reverse an act of nuking; to unerase, to undelete.


backdash

(video games) A backwards dashing movement.


auto-save

en-noun

auto-save (countable and uncountable, plural auto-saves)

(video games) Alternative form of autosave


auto-save

en-verb

auto-save (third-person singular simple present auto-saves, present participle auto-saving, simple past and past participle auto-saved)

auto-saves (present singular third-person)
auto-saving (participle present)
auto-saved (participle past)
auto-saved (past)


downstab

(video games) An instance of stabbing downward.


vaultable

en-adj

vaultable (comparative more vaultable, superlative most vaultable)

more vaultable (comparative)
most vaultable (superlative)

(computing) Able to be stored in a vault.