catastrophic backtracking

(regular expressions) An excessively large amount of backtracking that occurs with certain regular expressions, due to an exponentially large number of possible matching paths to check.


ChatGPT

en-verb

ChatGPT (third-person singular simple present ChatGPTs, present participle ChatGPTing or ChatGPT-ing, simple past and past participle ChatGPTed or ChatGPT'ed or ChatGPT'd)

ChatGPTs (present singular third-person)
ChatGPTing (participle present)
ChatGPT-ing (participle present)
ChatGPTed (participle past)
ChatGPTed (past)
ChatGPT'ed (participle past)
ChatGPT'ed (past)
ChatGPT'd (participle past)
ChatGPT'd (past)

From chat + GPT. First attested in 2022.

I ChatGPTed a bedtime story for my son.

(transitive, intransitive, Internet) To create or generate (something) with the help of a chatbot or AI software.


snowshoe spam

Metaphor based on the use of snowshoes to spread one's weight over a wider area.

(Internet) Spam (electronic junk mail) that is deliberately sent from a number of different IP addresses, to make it more difficult to detect and filter.


TOML

Coordinate term: YAML

TOML is a configuration file format that is easy for humans to read. It supports both comments and multiline strings.

2021, Adam Woodbeck, Network Programming with Go: Code Secure and Reliable Network Services from Scratch, No Starch Press, page 225

(computing, file format) Acronym of Tom's Obvious Minimal Language.


prvalue

Short for pure rvalue. According to Bjarne Stroustrup, coined by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 in 2010.

(programming) An rvalue that is not an xvalue.


dicdef

(Wikimedia jargon) Short for dictionary definition.


flowmap

Flowmaps have a hierarchical structure in which some functional units correspond to activities (atomic operations) and others correspond to more detailed flowmaps.

1994, Reid Alan Baldwin, A Discipline Independent Framework for Engineering Design, page 101

Flowmaps can be exponentially large if there are many alternatives. In the NELSIS system, the flow plan is fixed.

1995, Sea Hawon Choi, Design Methodology in High Level Synthesis (page 67)

[…] a "flowmap" that amounts to a perceptual analysis of the Sokoban level. The flowmap is a concise data structure that contains a graph of all possible pushes (under the assumption that all other barrels are deleted), […]

2007, Ben Goertzel, Pei Wang, Advances in Artificial General Intelligence, page 66

(computing) A kind of diagram indicating flow through a process or system.


vlogpology

Blend of vlog + apology. Popularised in a January 2020 study of YouTuber apology videos by data visualisation website The Pudding, but attested earlier (see quotations).

fucking RUINED this guy myers needs a vlogpology without hte mask ...SHOW YOURSELF MYERS !

And this is what he was trying to do. A vlog apology. Vlogpology. 👌

vlogpology (noun): when a famous YouTuber becomes embroiled in a controversy, makes headlines, and releases an apology video.

2020 January 31, Arjun Kakkar, Russell Samora, “The Aftermath of a YouTube Apology”, in The Pudding

My findings also show that vlogpologies are often created when the vlogger is under extreme duress and may be uncomfortable with being told to apologise, which can result in non-apologetic language and seem insincere.

2022 November 30, Bella Sampson, I'm Sorry You(Tube) Feel That Way: An Introduction to the YouTube Vlogpology Genre (Thesis), Auckland University of Technology, page 2

(derogatory, neologism, very rare) An apology video; a video, typically uploaded to video-sharing service YouTube, in which an Internet celebrity/influencer apologises for, or addresses, public backlash, especially in an insincere manner.


chiev

(video games, Internet slang) achievement


rvalue reference

en-noun

rvalue reference (plural rvalue references)

(programming) In C++, a reference which is bound to an rvalue.


game mode

In computer gaming, socialization is the new paradigm, and in some games, even single-player game modes require an Internet connection.

2015, V. Anton Spraul, How Software Works: The Magic Behind Encryption, CGI, Search Engines, and Other Everyday Technologies, San Francisco, Calif.: No Starch Press, page 174

Looking into specific formal elements can help analyze the difficulty in somewhat more objective terms, such as whether there are difficulty settings or different game modes.

2015, Clara Fernández-Vara, Introduction to Game Analysis, New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, page 145

Five game modes drive the fun in Minecraft: survival, creative, adventure, spectator, and hardcore.

2017, Michael Ross, Christopher Ross, Building Faith Block by Block, Eugene, Ore.: Harvest Kids, page 103

(video games) A distinct configuration that varies gameplay and affects how other game mechanics behave.


rackware

Rackware, economically-packaged shareware and low-cost retail software that is generally hung on display racks, was pioneered by SoftKey and other companies a decade ago. But the marketing practice has become ubiquitous only in the last year or so. Now just about every airport, department store, and computer retailer carries at least one rack. Most rackware falls into entertainment and educational categories, but that too is changing as major apps begin to appear.

1993, PC Mag, volume 12, number 15, page 30

Contact database features hundreds of addresses for bulletin boards and rackware

1994, Steve Hudgik, Make Money Selling Your Shareware

Another advantage of rackware publishing is ownership.

(computing) Low-cost software sold in shops, generally hung on display racks.


APNS

Alternative form: APNs

On the device side, APNS must validate the connection is with a genuine device.

2015, Lauren Collins, Scott R. Ellis, Mobile Devices: Tools and Technologies, CRC Press, page 87

Apple Push Notification service
w:Apple Push Notification service

(computing) Initialism of Apple Push Notification service.


sewer slide

Used for its similar pronunciation to suicide.

(social media, euphemistic) Synonym of suicide


hypertapping

It wasn’t until 2018, after a young player won a prestigious competition using hypertapping, that more players starting using it.

2021 April 26, Zack Zwiezen, “NES Tetris Players Call It 'Rolling,' And They're Setting New World Records”, in Kotaku

Prior to this, DAS and Hypertapping were the two standards for Tetris pros, but Rolling allows for a high amount of button presses per second without the "superhuman finger speeds" needed for Hypertapping, modified controllers, or any gloves - which also makes it is perfectly legal for tournament play.

2021 April 28, Adam Bankhurst, “NES Tetris Players Are Using a Special Technique Called Rolling to Set New World Records”, in IGN

The first known way past the brick wall of Level 29 was a technique that became known as hypertapping. By using a special grip that lets you vibrate a finger over the D-pad directions at least 10 times a second, you can effectively skip the "delayed autoshift" (DAS) that limits how fast pieces can move laterally when the D-pad is held down.

2024 February 1, Kyle Orland, “34 years later, a 13-year-old hits the NES Tetris “kill screen””, in Ars Technica

(video games, NES Tetris) A technique in which players flex their bicep until it vibrates and tap the D-pad at a speed of over 10 taps a second, allowing them to move falling blocks to the side faster than what would normally be possible by holding down the button.


voteban

(video games) A vote to ban a player, taken by the other players.


YouTube Pooper

A casual poll featuring several startup founders, computer programmers and YouTube Poopers produced estimates of anywhere from 0.1% to 8% of all YouTube videos falling into the category

2020 March 3, Zack O'Malley Greenburg, “YouTube Poop And The ‘Sanic’ Boom: Digesting The Strangest Slice Of Google’s $15B Video Business”, in Forbes

...Payes, an enthusiast who has built a community of YouTube Poopers on Discord.

2022 February 27, Malavika Pradeep, “The art of the YouTube Poop”, in Screenshot Media

(Internet) A creator of YouTube poop videos.


hypertapper

While that gives a little breathing room, a run of bad pieces or execution can still put a hypertapper in an untenable position where the pieces start to stack up high, and completing new lines becomes essentially impossible.

(video games) A person who uses hypertapping.


transput

From trans- + put, modeled on input and output.

Another basic goal was to separate the responsibility for uniform and correct synchronization and protection from that for efficient representation and transput.

1978 May 31, Guy Almes, George Robertson, “An extensible file system for hydra”, in ICSE '78: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Software engineering, IEEE Press, →DOI

(computing, obsolete) Synonym of input/output


GPX

GPS Exchange Format
w:GPS Exchange Format

(file format) Abbreviation of GPS Exchange Format.


boat anchor

Suggesting that it would only be useful as a weight to be thrown overboard to moor a vessel.

(slang, radio, computing) A cumbersome, useless piece of equipment.


spawn camper

(video games) A player who engages in camping or guarding the position of the enemy team's own spawn on the map.


metacurrency

(video games, roleplaying games) A type of resource alloted to players that is spent and exchanged without any resource exchanging occurring in the game world.


corpse camper

(online gaming) A player who camps specifically next to the enemy's corpse (or, by the closest graveyard) with the purpose of continuously eliminating that enemy as soon as their resurrection occurs.


gRPC

remote procedure call
remote procedure call

(computing) a cross-platform open-source high-performance remote procedure call framework.


Dhrystone

Coordinate term: Whetstone

(computing) A microprocessor benchmark measuring primarily fixed-point arithmetic performance.


Dhrystone

While the average Dhrystones per task decline rapidly after five, the total number of Dhrystones increases until the number of tasks […]

Because a VAX 11/70 could execute 1,757 loops through the Dhrystone benchmark in 1 second, 1,757 loops became 1 Dhrystone.

2001, Arnold S. Berger, Embedded Systems Design: An Introduction to Processes, Tools, and Techniques, CRC Press, page 27

(computing) A measure of the Dhrystone benchmark, calibrated to some reference architecture.


HEIC

High Efficiency Image Codec
w:High Efficiency Image File Format

(computer graphics, file format) Initialism of High Efficiency Image Codec, HEVC contained in HEIF.


book type

(computing) A field of four bits at the beginning of a DVD indicating the physical format of the disc.


hypertap

en-verb

hypertap (third-person singular simple present hypertaps, present participle hypertapping, simple past and past participle hypertapped)

hypertaps (present singular third-person)
hypertapping (participle present)
hypertapped (participle past)
hypertapped (past)

By 2020, Saelee had hypertapped his way to a Level 35 performance, while fellow player EricICX had achieved the first Level 38 performance.

(video games) To employ the hypertapping strategy.


Linux ISO

The sharing of actual Linux ISOs (disk images that contain the files necessary to set up the Linux operating system) is a legitimate use of file sharing services. Claiming to be downloading Linux ISOs was a stereotypical excuse given to a network administrator if questioned about one's heavy Internet usage.

(literally) An ISO for setting up the Linux operating system.


Zig

programming language
programming language

(computer languages) A general-purpose imperative, statically typed, compiled programming language intended as a modern successor to the C language.


zombie client

(computing, networking) Computer software that takes directions from a remote computer and uses the infected computer to perform malicious tasks as directed.


version number

(computing) A unique number or set of numbers assigned to a specific version of software, firmware, file, etc.


zombie path

(computing) A path that is no longer valid or accessible because the target has been moved or deleted.


zombie user

(computing) A logged in or registered user that should no longer exist but has not been fully deleted from the system.


full-stacker

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering, informal) A full-stack software developer.


YTPer

mrSimon had a fresh, quick style, was one of the first YTPers of any kind, and was also most likely the creator of YTPMVs.

2019 March 18, [deleted], “What are the most influential YTPers over the years?”, in Reddit (forum)

2020 August 22, [deleted], “[TOMT][CHANNEL][2018]Trying to find videos from a trans former YTPer”, in Reddit (forum):

I just learned my favorite YTPer is editing for SnapCube and doing a fantastic job.


TOCTOU

time-of-check to time-of-use
time-of-check to time-of-use#English

(software engineering) Abbreviation of time-of-check to time-of-use.


Poopism

Certain techniques are usually apparent in every YouTube Poop video. These techniques have been coined as Poopisms.

(Can we date this quote?), “YouTube Poop”, in Remix Culture

“Poopisms” are the common techniques and tricks used in videos to ensure they qualify as a true Poop.

2016 November 29, Amelia Tait, “The art of the YouTube Poop”, in New Statesman

Independent of the source material, however, specific editing techniques are what define YouTube Poop. Conveniently termed ‘Poopisms’, the methods include...

Poopism refers to the way these videos are edited. They may contain random chopping, extremely loud audio manipulation, sentence mixing/word splicing, visual jokes, colorful and eye-popping visual effects, and other things all put together to make a video interesting, funny, confusing, or even intentionally annoying. The following are some of the different types of Poopism...

2023 August 24, Travis Boylls, “How to Make a YouTube Poop”, in WikiHow

Any of the editing techniques used in YouTube poop videos.


USB key

(computer hardware) A USB drive used to identify and authenticate a user.


main page

→ Japanese: メインページ (mein pēji)

Several reports on user behavior indicate that website visitors like hypertext links, and often choose these before anything on the main menu. However, if there are no hyperlinks on the main page, visitors are forced to study the menu more closely.

2000, Eric L. Reiss, Practical Information Architecture: A Hands-On Approach to Structuring Successful Websites, Harlow: Addison Wesley, page 125

MySpace has since expanded options to allow up to the Top 40 friends to be displayed on the main page of your profile.

2011, Fran Vincent, MySpace™ for Musicians: The Comprehensive Guide to Marketing Your Music Online, 2nd edition, Boston, Mass.: Course Technology, Cengage Learning, page 161

Comments determine whether a post gets a high ranking on Reddit’s main page.

2014, Brian Carroll, Writing and Editing for Digital Media, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, page 271


SCD

slowly changing dimension
w:slowly changing dimension

(databases) Initialism of slowly changing dimension.


predictive texting

(computing) The composition of messages using predictive text.


automoderator

Purely utilitarian considerations determined whether Usenet’s equivalent to IRC’s channel protection bots – the robo-moderators and automoderators and modbots – succeeded or failed.

1997, Andrew Leonard, Bots: The Origin of New Species, San Francisco, Calif.: HardWired, page 175

These codes determine which newsgroups the automoderator places your message in.

1999, Matthew L. Helm, April Leigh Helm, Genealogy Online For Dummies®, 2nd edition, Foster City, Calif.: IDG Books Worldwide, Inc., page 56

Digital agents, 10% of the references, were non-human agents, typically a bot, that undermined/challenged the work of the conspiracy theorists and/or the conspiracy theory itself. The discussion about non-human agents appeared mostly in the Reddit dataset. This conversation referred to automoderators or bots designed to automate various moderation tasks for which no human judgment is needed – such as deleting comments – and whose decisions can be overridden by human mods.

2022, Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Nuria Lorenzo-Dus, “‘Go ahead and “debunk” truth by calling it a conspiracy theory’: The discursive construction of conspiracy theoryness in online affinity spaces”, in Massimiliano Demata, Virginia Zorzi, Angela Zottola, editors, Conspiracy Theory Discourses (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture; 98), Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 92

(computing) A bot that automatically moderates (a discussion forum, etc.).


C--

From the name of the C language (on which it was based) and --, the decrement operator in both languages, coined as an inside joke, indicating that C-- is a reduced form of C.

(computer languages) A C-like programming language, designed to be generated mainly by compilers for high-level languages rather than written by human programmers.


off-prem

Companies and organizations are increasingly shifting their computer infrastructure resources from on-premises (on-prem) to off-premises (off-prem) cloud service models.

2017, “Private Cloud Security”, in John R. Vacca, editor, Computer and Information Security Handbook, Morgan Kaufmann, page 931

(computing) Located outside the premises of an organization, typically in the cloud.


audio mining

(computing, linguistics) A technique that involves automatically analyzing and searching the content of an audio signal, often for speech recognition.


automatic summarization

computational linguistics
computational linguistics

(computational linguistics) The process of using AI algorithms to computationally condense a set of data.


automated essay scoring

natural language processing
natural language processing

(computational linguistics) The use of specialized computer programs and natural language processing to evaluate and assign grades to essays in educational settings.


audio-visual speech recognition

en-noun

audio-visual speech recognition (uncountable)

(computational linguistics) A technique that uses lip reading through image processing to enhance speech recognition systems.


Bradford's law

Named after Samuel C. Bradford (1878–1948).

named-after

(computational linguistics) A pattern that observes the diminishing returns in the search for references within science journals.


Brown clustering

Named after Peter Fitzhugh Brown (1955–).

(computational linguistics) An approach in natural language processing that involves grouping words into clusters based on distributional information and shared contexts within bigram language models.


cache language model

en-noun

cache language model (plural cache language models)

(computational linguistics) A type of statistical language model that assigns probabilities to word sequences based on a probability distribution.


stubbify

en-verb

stubbify (third-person singular simple present stubbifies, present participle stubbifying, simple past and past participle stubbified)

stubbifies (present singular third-person)
stubbifying (participle present)
stubbified (participle past)
stubbified (past)

(transitive, computing) To make (something) use stubs (placeholder procedures).


co-occurrence network

en-noun

co-occurrence network (plural co-occurrence networks)

(computational linguistics) A text analysis method that visually represents relationships among entities based on their co-occurrence in electronic text.


collocation extraction

(computational linguistics) The automated process of identifying and extracting word combinations that frequently appear together in a given corpus.


content determination

(computational linguistics) The process of selecting and organizing information within a generated text.


computational humor

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(computational linguistics) A field within computational linguistics and artificial intelligence that leverages computers for research on humor.


computational semantics

(computational linguistics) The study of automating the creation and interpretation of meaning representations in natural language expressions.


computational lexicology

(computational linguistics) The use of computers to analyze lexicons, especially machine-readable dictionaries.


block time

block time (countable and uncountable, plural block times)

(cryptocurrencies) The average time it takes for the network to generate one extra block in the blockchain.


distributional semantics

(computational linguistics) A field of research focused on quantifying and categorizing the semantic similarities between linguistic items.


deep learning speech synthesis

deep learning speech synthesis (uncountable)

(computational linguistics) The use of sophisticated neural networks to generate lifelike human speech from written text or spectrum data.


distributional–relational database

distributional–relational database (plural distributional–relational databases)

database management system
database management system

(computational linguistics) A type of database management system that enhances the semantics of structured data by using distributional word-vector representations.


LAA

LAA (countable and uncountable, plural LAAs)

(networking, countable) Initialism of locally administered address.

(computing, uncountable) Initialism of large address awareness.


word time

(computing) The amount of time required to transfer a machine word between different memory units.

(computing) The amount of time that passes between the reading of the first bits of consecutive words.


machine word

(computing) A unit of information of a standard number of characters, appropriate for a fixed wordlength computer.


memory unit

(computing) A component of a computer system used to store data, instructions and information.


task-specific

domain-specific language
domain-specific language

(computing) Referring to domain-specific languages that are designed around supporting specific user tasks.


foundation model

foundation model (plural foundation models)

(computational linguistics) An AI model trained on comprehensive data, enabling its application across various use cases such as chatbots and generative AI.


filtered-popping recursive transition network (plural filtered-popping recursive transition networks)

(computational linguistics) An extension of recursive transition networks.


man-in-the-middle attack

man-in-the-middle attack (plural man-in-the-middle attacks)

Man-in-the-middle attacks clandestinely place something (such as a piece of software or a rouge router) between a server and the user about which neither the server's administrators nor the user is aware.

2014, Emmett Dulaney, Security, page 324

In the general man-in-the-middle attack, the role of E in a tag access operation is to fake and forward data.

2016, Ho-won Kim, Dooho Choi, Information Security Applications, page 70

It had taken Robert Lemoine barely twenty minutes to execute the man-in-the-middle attack.

2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 76

(computing, security) A security attack in which someone intercepts the communication between a device and the server it is connected to, simulating the device to the server and simulating the server to the device.


From the chat Arabic spelling of transliterated Arabic عَرَبِيزِيّ (ʕarabīziyy), blend of عَرَبِيّ (ʕarabiyy, “Arabic”) + إِنْكْلِيزِيّ (ʔinglīziyy, “English”).

blend

إِنْكْلِيزِيّ


referenceness

Coordinate term: valueness

(programming, rare) The quality of being a reference or a reference type.


noob toob

(video games, slang, humorous) Alternative form of noob tube


ronation

massively multiplayer online game
massively multiplayer online game

(video games, uncommon) A country, based on an existing one or invented, that is hosted on the massively multiplayer online game Roblox, in which users roleplay as citizens or government officials.


bit time

network interface card
network interface card

(computing, networking) The amount of time it takes for one bit to be ejected from a network interface card operating at a predefined standard speed.


grammar induction

(computational linguistics) The process of constructing a model that captures the characteristics of observed objects by learning a formal grammar.


generative lexicon

(computational linguistics) A linguistic semantics theory that challenges purely verb-centric approaches to compositionality.


Gale–Church algorithm

Named after William A. Gale and Kenneth W. Church.

(computational linguistics) A method that aligns corresponding sentences in a parallel corpus.


Heaps' law

Named after Harold Stanley Heaps, but was originally discovered by Gustav Herdan.

(linguistics) An empirical law that expresses the correlation between the length of a document or set of documents and the corresponding number of distinct words.


hipfire

first-person shooter
first-person shooter

(video games) In first-person shooter games, the ability to shoot from the hip, without taking aim first.


APNIC

Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
w:APNIC

(Internet) Initialism of Asia Pacific Network Information Centre.


LACNIC

(Internet) Initialism of Latin America and Caribbean Network Information Centre.


RIR

Regional Internet registry
w:Regional Internet registry

(Internet) Initialism of Regional Internet registry.


AFRINIC

African Network Information Centre
w:AFRINIC

(Internet) Initialism of African Network Information Centre.


inside–outside–beginning

(computational linguistics) A tagging scheme commonly employed in tasks such as named-entity recognition within computational linguistics.


intelligent character recognition

en-noun

intelligent character recognition (uncountable)

(computational linguistics) An advanced technology specialized in extracting handwritten text from images.


interlingual machine translation

interlingual machine translation (uncountable)

(computational linguistics) A classic method where the source language is converted into an abstract, language-independent representation called interlingua.


World of Warcrack

Blend of World of Warcraft + crack, an allusion to the addictiveness of crack cocaine.

Noah Tsutsul world of warcrack addict

2005 March, “Staff Rants”, in MacAddict, volume 10, number 3 / 103, Brisbane, Calif.: Future Network USA, →ISSN, page 08

The first thing I did was install a few games, including Call Of Duty 2, Far Cry, F.E.A.R., rFactor, and World Of Warcrack (don’t ask).

2006 September, Rahul Sood, “Wagging The Dog: Intel Will Change The Way It Does Business”, in Computer Power User, volume 6, number 09, Lincoln, Neb.: Sandhills Publishing, →ISSN, page 99, column 2

World of Warcrack — er, Warcraft

2007, Hugh Hancock, Johnnie Ingram, “Massively Multiplayer Machinima: World of Warcraft”, in Machinima For Dummies®, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Publishing, Inc., part III (Advanced Machinima Creation), page 190

As with EverQuest before it, concerned citizens around the nation have attempted to liken its addictive gameplay to substance abuse. As usual, these dire warnings serve only as free publicity, vaulting “World of Warcrack” to even greater fame.

2008, Matt Barton, “The Modern Age”, in Dungeons and Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games, Wellesley, Mass.: A K Peters, Ltd., page 419

In other circumstances, the overweening success of a single game would prove frustrating to its competitors: other developers trying to get their products in the hands of receptive audiences. Except in this case, most of those developers are themselves addicted to what some call the “World of Warcrack.”

2009 December 2–8, Ben Richardson, “No escape from Azeroth”, in The San Francisco Bay Guardian, volume 44, number 9, San Francisco, Calif., →ISSN, page 23, columns 1–2

“And it’s a crack addiction.” Everybody stared. “World of Warcrack, that is,” Chip said, and smiled. / “Wait,” Tracy said. “They locked you up for a video game addiction?”

2013, Trish Cook, Brendan Halpin, A Really Awesome Mess, New York, N.Y.: Egmont USA, page 124

As usual, Ryan was playing World of Warcrack, as Mom called it. The most addictive computer game ever created, where kids with no lives have names like Worgen and are always leveling up.

2014, Mitchell Kriegman, Being Audrey Hepburn, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, page 4

Brandon’s parents also made their home a “screen free zone” replacing “World of Warcrack” with a cooking class, the Percy Jackson book series, yard work, a chemistry set, and a soccer league.

2014, David Altshuler, Love the Kid You Get. Get the Kid You Love., Langley Press, page 175

The improvements it made to the EQ [EverQuest] template were noticed, and players around the globe became absorbed by what was being termed ‘the World Of Warcrack’. It ate up lives and players became devoted to their guilds, their levelling friends and their online avatars.

2019 October 31, Adam Barnes, “World Of Warcraft”, in Retro Gamer, number 200, Bournemouth, Dorset: Future Publishing Limited, →ISSN, pages 80–81

(video games, slang, humorous) The massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft.


near real-time

(computing) Referring to a data-processing system that is somewhat slower than real-time.


quiesce time

(computing) The amount of time required to render a computer system inactive, or the amount of time between periods of inactivity.


randomized polynomial time

randomized polynomial time (countable and uncountable, plural randomized polynomial times)

(mathematics, computer science) The complexity class of problems for which a probabilistic Turing machine exists with certain properties.


de-archive

en-verb

de-archive (third-person singular simple present de-archives, present participle de-archiving, simple past and past participle de-archived)

de-archives (present singular third-person)
de-archiving (participle present)
de-archived (participle past)
de-archived (past)

(transitive, computing) To render a file that has been archived available for editing.


magnificent seven

the magnificent seven (canonical plural)

After the 1960 Western film The Magnificent Seven.

Coordinate term: FANG

The “magnificent seven” now account for 29% of the market value of the S&P 500, and a whopping 61% of the NASDAQ 100, up from 20% and 53%, respectively, at the start of the year.

2023 July 20, “Big tech’s dominance is straining the logic of passive investing”, in The Economist, →ISSN

“We are on the edge of an AI surge that will make the dotcom boom look like spring break,” says Boris Feldman, co-head of Freshfield's global tech practice, who advises multiple “magnificent seven” tech companies.

2024 July 20, Tabby Kinder, George Hammond, Hannah Murphy, Alex Rogers, quoting Boris Feldman, “Has Silicon Valley gone Maga?”, in FT Weekend, Big Read, page 6

(business, colloquial) Seven Big Tech companies or their stock: Apple, Amazon, Alphabet Inc., Nvidia, Tesla, Meta, and Microsoft.


language resource

en-noun

language resource (plural language resources)

(computational linguistics) Linguistic material used for developing, enhancing, or assessing language processing applications.


Lesk algorithm

Named after American computer scientist Mike Lesk (1945–).

named-after

(computational linguistics) A classical algorithm that disambiguates word senses by comparing dictionary definitions of an ambiguous word with its surrounding context.


document structuring

(computational linguistics) The systematic arrangement and grouping of sentences within a generated text.


lexical choice

(computational linguistics) The selection of content words in a generated text.


lexical resource

en-noun

lexical resource (plural lexical resources)

(computational linguistics) A linguistic asset comprising information about the words and their meanings within one or more languages.


lexical substitution

(computational linguistics) The task of replacing a word with another word while maintaining the meaning and context of the original sentence or phrase.


lexical simplification

(computational linguistics) A subtask of text simplification that swaps words or phrases in a text to make it simpler and easier to understand, reducing its complexity.


logic form

(computational linguistics) The representation of natural language sentences in first-order logic, where concept predicates are combined through shared arguments.


time hierarchy theorem

(mathematics, computer science) A theorem that demonstrates that allowing Turing machines additional computation time strictly increases the class of languages that they can decide.


flamegraph

We spent many hours running benchmarks, poring over flamegraphs, and digging through internal Node.js code.

2021, I. I. Thomas Hunter, Bryan English, “Preface”, in Multithreaded JavaScript, O'Reilly, page xi

(computing) A visual representation of hierarchical data used to analyze system and application performance metrics.


EWKT

(file format) Initialism of extended WKT (well-known text).


return key

First known use appears c. 1965 in the publication Programming IBM 1620 by E.A. Weiss.

(computing, computer hardware) A key on a computer keyboard commonly used to execute a command or confirm the input of keyed text.


enter key

First known use appears c. 1955, in the publication Applied Electronics: Proceedings.

(computing, computer hardware) A type of return key generally present on extended keyboards with a numeric keypad.


forty weepy weepy

From a message whose plaintext began fortyweepyyweepy: German fort (“forth”), short for Fortsetzung (“continuation”) + weep, typewriter code for 23:30, the time of the previous message. Enigma machines had no number keys, so the letter y marked the letters to be interpreted as numbers.

(cryptography, historical) Cryptanalysis of an Enigma message which was a continuation of a previous message sent at a known time.


refriend

en-verb

refriend (third-person singular simple present refriends, present participle refriending, simple past and past participle refriended)

refriends (present singular third-person)
refriending (participle present)
refriended (participle past)
refriended (past)

(social media, transitive) To add again to one's list of friends (e.g. on a social networking website).


soloable

(video games) Able to be played on one's own, without other players.


depeer

depeer (third-person singular simple present depeers, present participle depeering, simple past and past participle depeered)

depeers (present singular third-person)
depeering (participle present)
depeered (participle past)
depeered (past)

(Internet, transitive) To remove as a peer; to cease to exchange network traffic with.


database key

(computing, databases) A unique identifier in the database management system IDMS, which indicates the record occurrence's physical location in the database.


JOSE

(computer security) Acronym of JSON Object Signing and Encryption, a group of web standards.


OIDC

(computer security) Initialism of OpenID Connect.


unique key

(computing, databases) A set of one or more than one columns or fields of a table that uniquely identifies a record in a database table.


passive attack

(cryptography) An attack in which the cryptanalyst cannot interact with any of the parties involved, attempting to break the system solely based upon observed data such as ciphertext.


outscriber

(computing, historical) A magnetic recording device that serves as a buffer for data being transmitted from computer to printer, to reduce delays in printing.


hackusate

hackusate (third-person singular simple present hackusates, present participle hackusating, simple past and past participle hackusated)

hackusates (present singular third-person)
hackusating (participle present)
hackusated (participle past)
hackusated (past)

Maybe a back-formation from hackusation, or directly from hack + accuse + -ate.

Rule #5: Do not hackusate other players without evidence.

(video games, transitive) To accuse another player of hacking (cheating).


BYOVD

(computer security) Initialism of bring your own vulnerable driver (“an exploit in which valid, digitally signed but obsolete drivers are used to introduce malicious code”).


scary devil monastery

I pull on a fresh pair of black heans, a faded Scary Devil Monastery tee shirt, and a pair of rubber-soled socks: I feel much better immediately. It's as if my brain is slowly rebooting, just like the Media Center PC.

2010, The Jennifer Morgue, Charles Stross

(Internet slang, humorous) The newsgroup alt.sysadmin.recovery.


NAFO

North Atlantic Fella Organization
w:North Atlantic Fella Organization

(Internet, geopolitics) Initialism of North Atlantic Fella Organization.


skibidi

skibidi (third-person singular simple present skibidis, present participle skibiding, simple past and past participle skibidied)

skibidis (present singular third-person)
skibiding (participle present)
skibidied (participle past)
skibidied (past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-scibidi.wav

Give It to Me (Timbaland song)
Mashable
Timbaland

Originally a nonlexical vocable used in scat singing. Popularized by the web series Skibidi Toilet (2023–present), the 2018 song "Skibidi" by Little Big and the Brrr Skibidi Dop Dop Yes Yes meme, based on sped up lyrics to the 2007 Timbaland song "Give It to Me".

You gotta be skibiding me

Retweet if you love skibiding your toilet to this tweet

2023 December 9, @Alterra_Corp_, Twitter

She skibidied so hard on my toliet that I rizzed her gyatt till she fanum taxed my chungus

You lost your privilege to call me pookie when you skibidied on my Ohio cake

Generation Alpha
Generation Alpha#English

(Internet slang, humorous) A nonsense word, used especially to mock, or in reference to, the perceived slang utilised by Generation Alpha, the generation itself, the Skibidi Toilet web series or (less commonly) the slang used on the video-sharing social media platform TikTok.


minimal recursion semantics

en-noun

minimal recursion semantics (uncountable)

(computational linguistics) A computational semantic framework employed in typed feature structure formalisms.


mobile translation

(computational linguistics) Electronic devices or software applications that provide audio translation.


morphological dictionary

morphological dictionary (plural morphological dictionaries)

(computational linguistics) A resource that documents the relationship between surface forms and their corresponding lexical forms.


multilingual notation

multilingual notation (plural multilingual notations)

(computational linguistics) A system used in lexical resources to denote words or phrases in multiple languages.


morphological pattern

morphological pattern (plural morphological patterns)

(computational linguistics) A systematic set of associations or operations used to construct the different forms of a lexeme.


autoescape

en-verb

autoescape (third-person singular simple present autoescapes, present participle autoescaping, simple past and past participle autoescaped)

autoescapes (present singular third-person)
autoescaping (participle present)
autoescaped (participle past)
autoescaped (past)

(transitive, computing) To escape (cause a text character to be interpreted literally) automatically.


timewheel

en-noun

timewheel (countable and uncountable, plural timewheels)

The three atomicity semantics of an update broadcast using the timewheel group communication service are affected by the group membership protocol.

1998, Shivakant Mishra, Christof Fetzer, Flaviu Cristian, “The Timewheel Group Membership Protocol”, in Jose Rolim, editor, Parallel and Distributed Processing, page 678

The event-driven simulator uses a timewheel to manage the relationships between components.

2004, Wayne Wolf, FPGA-Based System Design, pages 3-61

Then, a pointer into the timewheel table indicates the current time slot and the owner of the resource during that time slot.

2004, William James Dally, Brian Patrick Towles, Principles and Practices of Interconnection Networks, page 294

Timewheels are used in event-driven simulators to control the order in which simulated events are processed.

2016, Marilyn Wolf, Computers as Components, page 443

(computing) A circular array of items sorted by time.


binding time

binding time (countable and uncountable, plural binding times)

(programming) The point in time when symbolic references to data are converted into physical machine addresses.

programming language
programming language

(programming) The point in time when a variable is assigned its type in a programming language.


assembly time

assembly time (countable and uncountable, plural assembly times)

(programming) The amount of time required for a computer to translate symbolic computer language into instructions of a machine language.


circulation time

circulation time (countable and uncountable, plural circulation times)

The circulation time of a slot in front of an access window has been chosen as the basic unit of time.

1982, Cees J. van Spronsen, Lutz Richter, Microsystems: Architecture, Integration, and Use, page 24

The first record for the day gives a base time, while subsequent records for the day each have a circulation time associated with them; the circulation time is thus calculated by subtracting from the current log-on time the log-on time of the previous run by the same user.

2001, Per Brinch Hansen, Classic Operating Systems, page 94

This mechanism provides latency hiding by decoupling the micro-threaded processor from the token circulation time.

2006, Nabil Hasasneh, Ian Bell, Chris Jesshope, “Scalable and Paritionable Asynchronous Arbiter for Micro-threaded Chip Multiprocessors”, in Werner Grass, Bernhard Sick, Klaus Waldschmidt, editor, Architecture of Computing Systems - ARCS 2006, page 266

(computing, computer science) The amount of time that elapses in a multiprocess system from the time when a process is loaded for execution until the time when the same process is next loaded for more processing.


average access time

(computing, computer hardware) The average amount of time required for a storage device to transfer data to the CPU.


seek time

seek time (countable and uncountable, plural seek times)

(computing, computer hardware) The measurement of time required for the head assembly on the actuator arm of a hard drive to travel to the track of the disk where the data will be read or written.


time-of-check to time-of-use

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) A class of software bugs caused by a race condition involving the checking of the state of a part of a system, such as a security credential, and the use of the results of that check.


deinfluencer

(social media, marketing, neologism) One who deinfluences (posts material that encourages people to avoid a particular product or service, or to consume less in general).


hopscotch hashing

(computer science) A scheme for resolving hash collisions, having an insertion algorithm that involves a series of hops.


Robin Hood hashing

(computer science) A scheme for resolving hash collisions that favors the displacement of the element that is farthest from its home location.


deinfluence

en-verb

deinfluence (third-person singular simple present deinfluences, present participle deinfluencing, simple past and past participle deinfluenced)

deinfluences (present singular third-person)
deinfluencing (participle present)
deinfluenced (participle past)
deinfluenced (past)

(social media, marketing, neologism) To post material that encourages people to consume less, as the opposite of an influencer.

(social media, marketing, neologism) To post material that draws attention to the downsides of a particular product or service and may recommend alternatives.


bit bashing

(computing, slang) Synonym of bit banging


backup copy

(computing, software) A duplicate instance of an application, datafile, server or system created as a means to restore the original data in case it is deleted, corrupted or lost.


Turing equivalent

(computing theory, of a computing system) Capable of computing precisely the same set of functions as a Turing machine can compute.


transactional memory

Since mutating state exposes those components to all the problems of concurrency, it is common practice to use some kind of transactional memory to protect the mutable variables from concurrent updates […]

2017, Robert C. Martin, Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design, Prentice Hall

(computing) A concurrency control mechanism analogous to database transactions for controlling access to shared memory.


wakelock

(programming) A lock that can be acquired by software for the purpose of preventing the mobile device from going into a locked standby state during a particular operation.


echo state network

en-noun

echo state network (plural echo state networks)

recurrent neural network
recurrent neural network

(computing) A type of reservoir computer that uses a recurrent neural network with a sparsely connected hidden layer. The weights of output neurons can be learned so that the network can produce or reproduce specific temporal patterns.


reservoir computer

reservoir computer (plural reservoir computers)

(computing) A reservoir computing system.


SNN

spiking neural network
spiking neural network#English

(machine learning) Initialism of spiking neural network.


liquid state machine

liquid state machine (plural liquid state machines)

spiking neural network
spiking neural network

(computing) A kind of reservoir computer that uses a spiking neural network with nodes randomly connected to each other.


SOFM

self-organizing feature map
self-organizing feature map#English

(machine learning) Initialism of self-organizing feature map.


computational complexity theory

computational complexity theory (countable and uncountable, plural computational complexity theories)

computational complexity theories (plural)

(mathematics, computer science) A theory focusing on classifying computational problems according to their resource usage, and relating these classes to each other.


nondeterministic Turing machine

nondeterministic Turing machine (plural nondeterministic Turing machines)

nondeterministic Turing machines (plural)

Coordinate term: deterministic Turing machine

(computer science) A variant of a Turing machine whose governing rules may specify more than one possible action for any given combination of the state of the machine and symbol being read.


Kohonen map

Introduced by the Finnish professor Teuvo Kohonen in the 1980s.

self-organizing map
self-organizing map#English

(machine learning) Synonym of self-organizing map


Kohonen network

Kohonen network (plural Kohonen networks)


NEXPTIME

computational complexity theory
computational complexity theory

nondeterministic Turing machine
nondeterministic Turing machine

(computer science) In computational complexity theory, a complexity class in which the set of decision problems can be solved by a nondeterministic Turing machine using time 2^(nᴼ⁽¹⁾).


self-organizing map

self-organizing map (plural self-organizing maps)

(machine learning) A kind of artificial neural network trained using competitive learning rather than error correction, and producing a low-dimensional (typically two-dimensional) representation of a higher-dimensional data set while preserving the topological structure of the data.


deoptimizer

(programming) A process or algorithm that deoptimizes.


cross-site

Coordinate term: cross-origin

(chiefly computer security) Across multiple websites.


Church-Rosser property

Church-Rosser property (plural Church-Rosser properties)

Alonzo Church and J. Barkley Rosser proved in 1936 that lambda calculus has this property.

(logic, computer science) The property of a rewriting system for which x stackrel *↔y implies x mathbin ↓y for all objects x, y.


disk access time

disk access time (countable and uncountable, plural disk access times)

(computing, computer hardware) The total amount of time required for an operating system to process a read-write request involving disk storage.


NTIME

(computer science) In computational complexity theory, the complexity class that is the set of decision problems that can be solved by a nondeterministic Turing machine which runs in time O(f(n)), where O is the big O notation, f is some function, and n is the size of the input (for which the problem is to be decided).


Atwood's Law

Coined by American software developer, author, blogger and entrepreneur Jeff Atwood in 2007 (see quotation below).

coinage

This was later codified in a more formal W3C document, The Rule of Least Power. I propose a corollary to this rule, which in the spirit of recent memes, I'll call Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.

2007 July 17, Jeff Atwood, “The Principle of Least Power”, in Coding Horror, archived from the original on 2024-02-07

Since that time, web developers have produced nearly every type of application, including full-blown, cloud-based office suites (see Zoho.com), social APIs like Facebook's JavaScript SDK, and even graphically intensive video games. ¶ All of this is serving to prove Atwood's Law (http://bit.ly/1pFCjtR): "Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript."

2014, Eric Elliott, Programming JavaScript Applications, Sebastopol, C.A.: O'Reilly, page 2

(programming, humorous) A tongue-in-cheek "law" of software development stating that "any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript."


time to live

(Internet, networking) A mechanism which limits the lifespan or lifetime of data in a computer or network.


desktop calendar

en-noun

desktop calendar (plural desktop calendars)

(computing) A small calendar and event reminder positioned on the desktop of an operating system.


GMAC

Galois Message Authentication Code
w:Galois Message Authentication Code

(cryptography) Acronym of Galois Message Authentication Code.


overmap

The overmap pretends to be a continuous space, but really it's just a discrete space. You could easily represent the overmap from, say, Final Fantasy VII in a menu, like this: […]

2012, Keith Burgun, Game Design Theory: A New Philosophy for Understanding Games, page 111


average seek time

average seek time (countable and uncountable, plural average seek times)

(computing, computer hardware) Of a hard drive, the average of all possible seek times equivalent to the time of all possible seeks divided by the number of all possible seeks.


minimum seek time

minimum seek time (countable and uncountable, plural minimum seek times)

Coordinate term: maximum seek time

(computing, computer hardware) The amount of time required to move the head of a disk drive from one track to the next.


maximum seek time

maximum seek time (countable and uncountable, plural maximum seek times)

Coordinate term: minimum seek time

(computing, computer hardware) The amount of time required for a disk drive to seek through all possible tracks, from the innermost to the outermost or vice versa.


nondeterministic polynomial time

nondeterministic polynomial time (countable and uncountable, plural nondeterministic polynomial times)

nondeterministic polynomial times (plural)

deterministic Turing machine
deterministic Turing machine

(computer science) A class of decision problems for which a yes solution can be verified by a deterministic Turing machine in polynomial time, or alternatively a set of problems that can be solved in polynomial time by a nondeterministic Turing machine.


Chatty G

/t͡ʃætiː ˈd͡ʒiː/

Clipping of ChatGPT (separated into two words) + -y.

Generative AI is advancing at a fast pace and quickly finding a place within education. Tools such as ChatGPT (or Chatty G as the kids say) continue to dominate conversations in education as these technologies are explored and developed.]

[2024 February 5, Tamika Worrell, “Generative AI in the classroom risks further threatening Indigenous inclusion in schools”, in The Conversation, archived from the original on 2024-02-09


prompt crafting

Apparently appeared at about the same time as prompt engineering, the two terms being interchangeable.

Guiding students in assessing AI-generated content instills discernment, while prompt crafting elicits original thinking.

2022, Sean Doyle, “Chapter 6: Augmenting Intelligence with Generative AI”, in Julia Nyberg, Jessica A. Manzone, editors, Practices That Promote Innovation for Talented Students, IGI Global, page 139

2022, M. L. Ronn, Indie Author Confidential 11: Secrets No One Will Tell You About Being a Writer, Author Level Up, unnumbered page,
Non-artists don't want to go through the trouble of learning the nuances of prompt crafting, so they will rely on other people to do it, creating a new cottage industry […] .

2023, Jason Brownlee, Adrian Tam, Matthew Mayo, Abid Ali Awan, Kanwal Mehreen, Maximizing Productivity with ChatGPT, MachineLearningMastery.com, eBook, page 33,
One way to improve your prompt crafting is to get ChatGPT involved.

When GPT-4 was tested by medical experts from Microsoft without any specialized prompt crafting, it exceeded the passing score on USMLE by over 20 points and outperformed earlier general-purpose models (GPT-3.5) as well as models specifically fine-tuned on medical knowledge (Med-PaLM, a prompt-tuned version of Flan-PaLM 540B) [13].

2023, Aravind Kumaresan, Lorna Udan, Shazad Ashaf, “Potential Role of ChatGPT in Healthcare in the Prevention and Management of Non-communicable Diseases”, in Lorna Uden, I-Hsien Ting, editors, Knowledge Management in Organisations: 17th International Conference, KMO 2023, Proceedings, Springer, page 432

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

prompt engineering
prompt engineering#English

(artificial intelligence, technology, neologism) Synonym of prompt engineering


PokéStop

(Pokémon) An area where players can collect items while playing Pokémon Go.


breadcrumb navigation

(Internet, computing) A webbased trail allowing a user to follow forwards or backwards to in order to assist navigating through a website.


Rose Twitter

In reference to the rose emoji (🌹), used as a symbol of democratic socialism.

But on the night of the caucuses, disaster! The blue checkmarks of rose Twitter caught wind of your plot!

2020 February 26, Sean Casey, “The view from the twilight zone”, in The Stanford Daily, Stanford University, page 4

Also, I give AOC another 2-3 years before Rose Twitter turns on her for compromising to get things done.

2020 December 28, u/ballmermurland, “The only form of bipartisanship in the US”, in Reddit, r/neoliberal

But DSAers saw the move as a betrayal. The reproach was almost immediate, with some on "Rose Twitter" (DSA members often signify their membership by adding a rose emoji to their name) declaring [Andre] Vasquez a failure and saying he would face a challenger in 2023.

2021 February 18, A.D. Quig, “City Council's socialists see themselves as an antidote to the status quo”, in Crain's Chicago Business, Chicago, I.L.: Crain Communications, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC

I just want to point out for the trolls here how INSANE the idea is that the FBI is some secret socialist deep state tool to defend the radical liberal agenda. Like, have you ever met an FBI agent?? Those guys and gals don't exactly live on rose twitter

2022 August 11, u/ASlockOfFeagulls, “Discussion Thread: Attorney General Garland Makes a Statement to the Media at 2:30 p.m. Eastern”, in Reddit, r/politics

democratic socialists
democratic socialist#Noun

(Internet slang) The community of democratic socialists on Twitter.


r/woooosh

From r/woooosh, a subreddit (discussion forum) on the American social news aggregation and discussion website Reddit in which Redditors post about Internet users who misinterpreted sarcastic statements as earnest, i.e. the joke went over their head. The subreddit name is thus taken from the onomatopoeia whoosh, representing the sound of a joke ostensibly flying over one's head. On Reddit, subreddits can be converted into hyperlinks by typing out their name in full, preceded by r/.

my friend you need some lessons in sarcasm

They're laughing at you not getting the joke man. r/woooosh

2019 February 17, @sheldon_daily, Twitter

I'm sorry but r/woooosh

Hopefully you GET it's a JOKE cuz r/woooosh

r/woooosh never been on twitter before?

(Internet slang, metonymically) Synonym of whoosh.


GSSAPI

(Internet) Initialism of Generic Security Services Application Program Interface.


SPNEGO

(Internet) Abbreviation of Simple and Protected GSSAPI Negotiation Mechanism.


slot time

slot time (countable and uncountable, plural slot times)

(computing, networking) The amount of time required for an electronic pulse to travel the length of the maximum theoretical distance between two nodes.


virtual 8086 mode
virtual 8086 mode#English

(computing) Abbreviation of virtual 8086 mode.


virtual 8086 mode

(computing, computer hardware) A mode allowing the execution of real mode applications that are incapable of running directly in protected mode while the processor is running a protected mode operating system.


Kleenex testing

Named from the Kleenex brand of disposable tissues, since the testers can only be employed once.

(software engineering, informal) Software testing carried out with people who have never before seen or used the software.


good article

From good + article. Originates from online wiki and encyclopedia Wikipedia, 2005.

(wiki jargon) A content entry on an online wiki that has been peer-reviewed by the wiki's users (editors) as being of proficient or exceptional quality, worthy of a separate classification/designation above regular articles.


deterministic Turing machine

deterministic Turing machine (plural deterministic Turing machines)

Coordinate term: nondeterministic Turing machine

(computer science) A Turing machine whose governing rules specify only one possible action for any given combination of the state of the machine and symbol being read.


ClickOps

Blend of click + op(eration)s, after DevOps.

The security and sysadmin status quo of “ClickOps” is, through this lens, frankly dangerous. It increases tight coupling and complexity, without the efficiency blessings we'd expect from this Faustian bargain—akin to trading our soul for a life of tedium.

2023, Kelly Shortridge, Aaron Rinehart, Security Chaos Engineering, O'Reilly

(computing, humorous) Manual (point-and-click) configuration of a system, as opposed to an automated one.


Doom clone

So called from the similarities with Doom (1993), an early popular game in this style.

first-person shooter
first-person shooter#Noun

(video games, dated) A first-person shooter.


downage

downage (countable and uncountable, plural downages)

[…] downages, and other anomalies in operation.

1969, Howard Jacques Greenbaum, A Simulator of Multiple Interactive Users to Drive a Time-shared Computer System, page 30

During trials by early adopters, each problem is identified and rated for severity, from system downage (most severe) to misalignment of a report column (minor).

2002, Charles V. Breakfield, Roxanne E. Burkey, Managing Systems Migrations and Upgrades (page 109)

(computing) An instance or period when the system is down, or unavailable for use.


beatmap

(video games) A data file for a rhythm game, comprising a song with images or video, storyboard, custom interactive elements, etc.


sentence mix

en-verb

sentence mix (third-person singular simple present sentence mixes, present participle sentence mixing, simple past and past participle sentence mixed)

sentence mixes (present singular third-person)
sentence mixing (participle present)
sentence mixed (participle past)
sentence mixed (past)

Well, someone went through the effort of making a text file transcript of Dennis Prager videos (for the convenience of YTPers looking for particular phrases to sentence-mix, so they didn't have to sit through all of the neocon BS just to find a clip).

It owes its existence to a feral culture of internet goblins who sentence-mixed the same few janky cutscenes for years.

2023 July 13, Harvey Randall, “The internet shitposted too close to the sun, and now we're getting a spiritual successor to the most cursed Zelda games of all time”, in PC Gamer

They may contain random chopping, extremely loud audio manipulation, sentence mixing/word splicing, visual jokes, colorful and eye-popping visual effects, and other things all put together to make a video interesting, funny, confusing, or even intentionally annoying.

2023 August 24, Travis Boylls, “How to Make a YouTube Poop”, in WikiHow

(Internet, transitive) To rearrange words and sounds in a speech recording as to change its meaning, usually for humorous purposes.


sentence mix

I loved hearing the rhymes and the character in this song, it's one of the best sentence mixes I've heard.

2014 June 21, u/SlayerOfCupcakes, Reddit

(Internet) A piece of media resulting from sentence mixing.


unreal mode

Coordinate term: real mode

(computing, computer hardware) A variant of real mode, in which one or more segment descriptors have been loaded with nonstandard values, like 32-bit limits allowing access to the entire memory.


pure virtual method

en-noun

pure virtual method (plural pure virtual methods)

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(object-oriented programming) A virtual method having no implementation in a particular class, thus making the class abstract and uninstantiable. It can be overridden in subclasses.


pure virtual function

pure virtual function (plural pure virtual functions)

pure virtual method
pure virtual method#English

(object-oriented programming) Synonym of pure virtual method


subtick

In this example the control word is broken in three eight-bit blocks, corresponding to three subticks that occur between two regular clock ticks.

2015, Peter J[ames] Denning, Craig H. Martell, Great Principles of Computing, Cambridge, M.A., London: The MIT Press, page 68

The update will also include an update to tick rate, in addition to visual changes. The game will now use a 'subtick' system.

2023 March 22, Calum Patterson, “Counter-Strike 2 revealed: Source 2 update overhauls CS:GO maps, graphics, smokes, more”, in Dexerto, archived from the original on 2024-02-14

(computing, video games) A secondary tick that occurs between regular ticks.


Hindenbug

(computing, software) A catastrophic bug that destroys data, and may potentially shut down a system or cause a major malfunction.


spread operator

spread operator (plural spread operators)

Coordinate term: rest operator

2021, David Greenhalgh, Josh Skeen, Andrew Bailey, Kotlin Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide
The spread operator causes the elements of a collection to be treated as individual parameters to functions that accept a variable number of arguments.

(programming) An operator that expands an array or similar data structure into its individual elements.


rest operator

From rest (“that which remains”), as it is often used to provide the last few arguments to a function call.

Coordinate term: spread operator

(programming) An operator that collapses a number of individual values into an array.


rest parameter

(programming) A final parameter to a function, allowing it to accept an indefinite number of arguments as an array.


spread syntax

(programming) The use of the spread operator in source code.


unpaywall

en-verb

unpaywall (third-person singular simple present unpaywalls, present participle unpaywalling, simple past and past participle unpaywalled)

unpaywalls (present singular third-person)
unpaywalling (participle present)
unpaywalled (participle past)
unpaywalled (past)

I will, over the next few weeks, start unpaywalling the articles I’ve got up.

2019 January 22, Yasmin Nair, “Changes”, in Yasmin Nair

While I like publishing free posts once in a while and am in the habit of unpaywalling older ones, my overall goal is to increase my ranks of paid subscribers, so I’ve prioritized paid content.

2021 November 20, Jesse Singal, “"Let's Make Unreasonable Rhetorical Demands Of The People Who We Want On Our Side"”, in Singal-Minded

(informal, computing, transitive) To remove a paywall from.


powerlevel

powerlevel (third-person singular simple present powerlevels, present participle powerleveling or powerlevelling, simple past and past participle powerleveled or powerlevelled)

powerlevels (present singular third-person)
powerleveling (participle present)
powerlevelling (participle present)
powerleveled (participle past)
powerleveled (past)
powerlevelled (participle past)
powerlevelled (past)

Returning to the convention area later we find EQ and its players have reclaimed the PCs, presenting a row of T-shirt prints ranging from gangsta rap to Ghost In The Shell. Some play side by side, some frantically text distant servermates; others are powerlevelling with near-catatonic detachment.

2004 June, “Lost in convention: What happens when thousands of EverQuest fans meet in Las Vegas? We find out…”, in Edge, number 137, Bath, Somerset: Future Publishing Ltd, →ISSN, page 092, column 1

Whilst fighting close to your mentor (who must be around 5 levels higher than you) your attack and defense ratings are boosted - temporarily making you of a similar level. XP is still proportionate to your “real” level though, so don’t expect to be able to powerlevel this way.

2004 September, Eliot Fish, “Online Tips and Tactics: City of Heroes”, in David Wildgoose, editor, PC PowerPlay, number 103, Redfern, N.S.W.: Next Publishing Pty Ltd, →ISSN, page 110

Trying to explore the Garden of Madness when you first enter it can be deadly if you haven’t been powerlevelling. […] The best way to powerlevel is usually to go find something big and dangerous, like a Stolas or a Final Guard, and pick on it until you level up.

2005, Alicia Ashby, Thomas Wilde, Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow: The Official Strategy Guide, [Redmond, Wash.]: DoubleJump Publishing, Inc., pages 55 and 227

Though she’s a Level 100 character, she can be beaten if your troops are as low as Level 30. It’s a good idea, however, to take this battle on only when you really want to get drawn into a Dark World stage that you know you can beat. This is because once you’ve defeated her, certain normal stages may automatically pull you into a Dark World stage that you are too weak to clear, thereby blocking repeated access to that normal stage until the Dark World variant is cleared. This can be a problem if you’ve been using a certain stage to powerlevel.

2006, Iaian Ross, Kale Harbick, Alicia Ashby, Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories: The Official Strategy Guide, [Redmond, Wash.]: DoubleJump Publishing, Inc., page 291

MMORPGs with experience of point and level system are susceptible to ‘powerlevelling’ and ‘grinding’, which are terms relating to the highly goal-oriented, repetitive play style aimed to make the character more powerful as quickly as possible.

2008, Frans Mäyrä, An Introduction to Game Studies: Games in Culture, London: SAGE Publications Ltd, pages 131–132

Fourthly, powerleveling is a key issue in which the moral order of the game is contested. For instance, when powerleveling, lower level players advance swiftly through 60 levels because higher level players accompany them, making quest completions much easier.

2012, Chaka Chaka, “Second Life and World of Warcraft: Harnessing Presence Learning”, in Harrison Hao Yang, Steve Chi-Yin Yuen, editors, Handbook of Research on Practices and Outcomes in Virtual Worlds and Environments, volume I, Hershey, Pa.: Information Science Reference, section 2 (Virtual Communities, Applications, and Implications), page 247, column 2

(intransitive, video games, slang) To play so as to advance levels in a game as quickly as possible.

But they did all shell out big bucks to have simulated lives in place of actual lives. They just don’t want to do this in PUBLIC. Which is what an on-line game is. You can find plenty of geeks willing to justify publically powerlevelling an orc avatar, but how many will you find willing to admit that their virtual girlfriend is the closest they’ve ever been to the opposite sex?

2003 February 10, Tyson, “Re: Hard to believe....”, in SlashNOT; quoted in “The End of Similization As We Know It”, in Matthew Strebe, Michael Moncur, Charles Perkins, The Best of SlashNOT, 2002–2005, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, 2006, page 13

If you’re busy trying to “powerlevel” your Sims out of their social rating slump, then you’re not likely to sit and watch conversations or dramas unfolds, and if you just want to pump up your environment score then it makes sense to randomly cram your Sim houses with all the highest rated stuff, even if it produces a scene that would make the Queer Eye team fall to the ground clutching their heads.

2004 December, Timothy C. Best, “The Sims 2”, in David Wildgoose, editor, PC PowerPlay, number 106, Redfern, N.S.W.: Next Publishing Pty Ltd, →ISSN, page 72, column 3

There was a reason the level based grouping decision was made which was to limit the ability to powerlevel a friend.

2007 August, Sean Stalzer, The Legend of the Syndicate: A History of Online Gaming’s Premier Guild, Lancaster, Pa.: Avari Press, page 86

Successful gold-farming businesses tended to involve teams of workers using computers in warehouses for ten or more hours a day in shifts, often sleeping on site, with the resulting gold being sold online by an entrepreneur running the ‘farm’ and paying workers on the basis of their ability to gain in-game gold. Games companies have cracked down on such businesses but it is thought that the global market is worth hundreds of millions of dollars and increasingly includes more sophisticated services, like ‘power-levelling’ in-game characters by doing the hard work of advancing a character towards the end of a game on behalf of western players prepared to pay not to have to work hard at playing.

2011, Tom Chatfield, “Virtual goods”, in 50 Digital Ideas You Really Need to Know, London: Quercus

One RetroMUD player summed up the problem: […] If you’re a high level with a recent creation date, people think you’re a clueless newbie who’s just been spoonfed and powerleveled through everything.

2011, Michael J. Tresca, The Evolution of Fantasy Role-Playing Games, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, page 132

Bots are also commonly used in commercial operations in order to powerlevel a character, either to increase the sale value of the account, or to allow the character to be used for commercial gold farming.

[2012], Jose Jane, Minecraft: Unabridged Guide, [Ruislip, Middlesex]: [Tebbo], page 48

Just so you know, I’d done little to help them in the actual fighting. I’d changed my main job from Death Shadow to Journalist and only used the “The Pen is Mightier than the Sword” skill, increasing their EXP gain. After all, if I’d just powerleveled them while doing all the work, they wouldn’t learn anything.

2018, Sakon Kaidou, translated by Andrew Hodgson, “In the Jaws of the Fox”, in Infinite Dendrogram, volume 6 (The Lunar Society), [San Antonio, Tex.]: J-Novel Club LLC

“Oh? But I am good at magic. Not many people know about it because I couldn’t leave home thanks to my frail body, but I can do fire and water magic, and perform combat spells, too.” / “C-come again?!?!” / For a beautiful young noblewoman, this was incredibly rare. Indeed, as far as Mile’s recollections went, the only such individual she had ever even laid eyes on was Marcela of the Wonder Trio—a young lady that she had trained or “power-leveled”—in other words, one whom Mile had hand-raised herself.

2019, FUNA, translated by Diana Taylor, “Leatoria”, in Didn’t I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?!, volume 6, [Los Angeles, Calif.]: Seven Seas Entertainment

Emily, with a low level yet very high power, had killed a mob of frozen monsters all at once. As a result, she’d been powerleveled. That was a common sight in games.

2022, Nazuna Miki, translated by Benjamin Daughety, “4’3” and a Hammer”, in My Unique Skill Makes Me OP Even at Level 1, volume 1, New York, N.Y.: Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC

“You don’t have to powerlevel Takashiro. No worries.” From what I’d heard, my classmates would often party up together after class to grind levels for the big quest.

2022, Hayaken, translated by Benjamin Daughety, “Akira Is… Akira?”, in Redefining the META at VRMMO Academy, volume 1, [San Antonio, Tex.]: J-Novel Club LLC

(transitive, video games, slang) To cause (a game character or another player) to advance levels in a game as quickly as possible.


Poképhiliac

From Poké- (pertaining to the Pokémon media franchise) + -philiac (pertaining to, or someone with, intense or abnormal love of something).

con

Misty wants Ash, so she uses her bike as an excuse to follow him around. Brock wants Misty because...Well, he's Brock. And to be quite honest, I think Ash is becoming, if he isn't already, a Poképhiliac.

1999 January 12, Joe Bessey, “Misty & Brock”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (Usenet)

Okay, crazy. If you think so. ^^ Just remember, I'm a Poképhiliac, and you ain't. XD

2008 July 24, Sadistic Typhlosion, “The One Above”, in PokéCommunity

Said the Poképhiliac. ಠ_ಠ

2011 April 12, u/KabelGuy, “Erika... has strange tastes.”, in r/pokemon, Reddit

The biggest problem with being a Poképhiliac is I can look at some random Pokémon content and internally react "How did they release this? It's so lewd," and it's just something like SWSH Promo Hydreigon.

(fandom slang, rare) Synonym of Poképhile.


Poképhiliac

en-adj

Poképhiliac (comparative more Poképhiliac, superlative most Poképhiliac)

more Poképhiliac (comparative)
most Poképhiliac (superlative)

I do enjoy the other aspects of Pokémon sexually, even into Poképhiliac sex.

2017 August 28, justinrpg, “Why do YOU like Pokémon preds?”, in Eka's Portal

Before long, you're downstairs again. Only a few short minutes had passed since your incredible, mind-blowing, furtive Poképhiliac tryst with the hot Lucario upstairs. Now, you were at the bottom of those stairs, standing in the entryway near the front door again.

2019 July 15, NightStalkerNS, “Lucariophilia”, in SoFurry

Then it's a date. Whenever she's ready, send her to the zone. Or come with her. Always bring your friends for some pokephiliac fun

(fandom slang, very rare) Relating to Poképhilia or to a Poképhile.


servermate

You, Sir, are a dink. Thank you for posting your character name so your servermates may all avoid you and petition you at the first possible oppportunity.

2000 February 3, The Shortest Barbarian On the Block, “Justice! - GM Approved”, in alt.games.everquest (Usenet), archived from the original on 2024-03-07

> I'm using the same / > server and the same account I used to post here with. […] > Your old / > servermate thought I was SK in that post!

2003 November 3, -=Be4U=-, “OT: The keylogger”, in alt.hackers.malicious (Usenet), archived from the original on 2024-03-07

Returning to the convention area later we find EQ and its players have reclaimed the PCs, presenting a row of T-shirt prints ranging from gangsta rap to Ghost In The Shell. Some play side by side, some frantically text distant servermates; others are powerlevelling with near-catatonic detachment.

2004 June, “Lost in convention: What happens when thousands of EverQuest fans meet in Las Vegas? We find out…”, in Edge, number 137, Bath, Somerset: Future Publishing Ltd, →ISSN, page 092, column 1

My servermates turn out to be incredibly nice people and, for those of us who have never met before (in-game or offline), we begin to exchange information.

2006, T. L. Taylor, “Finding New Worlds”, in Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture, Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, page 4

Patch days are usually wild, crazy things, full of massive world PvP and competing for quest kills and standing on top of mailboxes on a new mount. Which is why it's somewhat disturbing to see a screenshot of a brand-new area looking like The Birds. Jilira, of Perenolde's Black Dragon Clan, suggests that her servermates are waiting for 100% completion of the Sunwell opening.

2008 March 28, Elizabeth Wachowski, “Around Azeroth: The long wait”, in Yahoo! News, archived from the original on 2024-03-07

You can connect your Spotify account to Discord, in order to show your friends and servermates what music you’re streaming.

2020 February 4, Taylor Lyles, “How to connect your Spotify account to Discord, so everyone can see what music you’re listening to”, in Business Insider, New York, N.Y.

If you’re in a server that already has apps, usually there are already tons of people already interacting with it — ask your servermates what the Slash Commands do, or watch a friend use them if you’re too shy to try ‘em yourself.

2022 October 18, Clyde, “A Beginner’s Guide to using Discord Apps”, in Discord Blog, archived from the original on 2022-10-18

(computing) One who is in the same server.


chmobik

Borrowed from Russian чмо́бик (čmóbik), itself a blend of чмо (čmo, “scoundrel”) + мо́бик (móbik, “poorly-trained Russian conscript soldier”), as if an abbreviation of части́чно мобилизо́ванный (častíčno mobilizóvannyj, “partially-mobilized”); itself a reference to the term части́чная мобилиза́ция (častíčnaja mobilizácija, “partial mobilization”) used by Russian media when referring to the 2022 Russian mobilization for the invasion of Ukraine.

abbrev

части́чно мобилизо́ванный

Chmobiki are russian citizens who were mobilized as a result of partial mobilization in russia in September 2022.

2022 October 3, Ihor Zhdanov, Interfax-Ukraine

The Russian Army orders the Chmobik to fight using only shovels. I present to you the Second World Army.

2023 February 2, u/sillyangel1945, Reddit

A ChMobik was tied to a tree by his commander for refusing to enter battle. when he was released, he wrote a letter to high command reporting the incident.

(informal, derogatory, Internet, military, sometimes humorous) A Russian soldier conscripted during the 2022 Russian mobilization.

2022 Russian mobilization
Russian invasion of Ukraine


dungeon-crawl

en-verb

dungeon-crawl (third-person singular simple present dungeon-crawls, present participle dungeon-crawling, simple past and past participle dungeon-crawled)

dungeon-crawls (present singular third-person)
dungeon-crawling (participle present)
dungeon-crawled (participle past)
dungeon-crawled (past)


untrigger

untrigger (third-person singular simple present untriggers, present participle untriggering, simple past and past participle untriggered)

untriggers (present singular third-person)
untriggering (participle present)
untriggered (participle past)
untriggered (past)

(transitive, computing) To undo the triggering of (a rule or action).


PCI Express

(computing) A high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard, designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X and AGP bus standards.


PC-compatible

(computing, computer hardware) Of a computer, functionally identical to the original IBM personal computer and able to accept all software and hardware designed or intended for it.


mixed alphabet

(cryptography) The mapping from plaintext to ciphertext characters in a substitution cipher, when it is not merely a shift or reversal but an arbitrary reordering.


spawn camp

spawn camp (third-person singular simple present spawn camps, present participle spawn camping, simple past and past participle spawn camped)

spawn camps (present singular third-person)
spawn camping (participle present)
spawn camped (participle past)
spawn camped (past)

From spawn (“a location on a game map in which a player spawns”) + camp (“to stay beside something to gain an advantage”).

com

Some servers will ban you if you spawn camp too much.

While one team is effectively pinned down by spawn campers, the team that has successfully spawn camped may proceed to complete any other goals of the match unobstructed.

2011, Galen Foresman, “What's Wrong with Camping?”, in Luke Cuddy, editor, Halo and Philosophy: Intellect Evolved (Popular Culture and Philosophy; 59), Chicago, I.L., LaSalle, I.L.: Open Court, page 156

(intransitive, video games) To stay near a spawn point in order to kill players immediately after they spawn.

How am I supposed to do anything if I get spawn camped in five seconds?

Of the turning point, he said, "We each got off our heroes and started playing random heroes. Dafran played Soldier for some reason, I stuck with Tracer, and we just ran to their spawn and then started spawn camping them."

2020, Austin Moorhead, quoting Sinatraa, Young Guns: Obsession, Overwatch, and the Future of Gaming, New York, N.Y.: Hachette Books, page 64

(transitive, video games) To kill (players) immediately after they spawn.


necroposter

(slang, Internet) A person who necroposts.


polymorphic iteration

en-noun

polymorphic iteration (countable and uncountable, plural polymorphic iterations)

When we write methods that take iterators as parameters, we are using polymorphic iteration.

2004, Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson, Bert Bates, Head First Design Patterns: A Brain-Friendly Guide, page 347

The results described here provide the foundations for a series of results, including the definition of a linear version of Gödel's system Τ with a decidable typing system for polymorphic iteration.

2007, Sandra Alves, Maribel Fernández, Mário Florido, Ian Mackie, “Linear Recursive Functions”, in Hubert Comon-Lundh, Claude Kirchner, Hélène Kirchner, editor, Rewriting, Computation and Proof, page 184

Use the Iterator pattern to provide a uniform interface for traversing different aggregate structures (that is, to support polymorphic iteration).

2011, Amnon H. Eden, Codecharts: Roadmaps and blueprints for object-oriented programs, page 145

(computing, programming) The use of an iterator class or interface to enable traversal over the members of any type of collection for which there is a corresponding descendant of that iterator by code which need not know the type of the collection.


newspost

Surf’nRexx is a package of 18 REXX functions in one DLL for performing various Internet activities such as sending and receiving mail or newsposts, retrieving web pages, and, of course, transferring files via FTP.

1997 June, Michael Norton, “Innoval’s Surf’nRexx”, in Amy B. Novotny, editor, Technical Support, volume 5, number 6, Oak Creek, Wis.: Technical Enterprises, Inc., page 67, column 2

Select the type of newsfeed: inbound and outbound, inbound only, or outbound only. You also need to specify the type of feed: push or pull. “Push” means you wait for incoming to be sent to you; “pull” means at a scheduled interval you go and grab the newsposts off of the news server. Click Next.

1999, John Savill, The Windows NT and Windows 2000 Answer Book: A Complete Resource from the Desktop to the Enterprise, Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, page 754

7.00pm Collect e-mail and newsposts. Sit and read, reply to them and so on. Time for a quick computer game – Final Fantasy VIII or Tomb Raider III.

2000, Brian Dutton, quoting Marc, Media Studies: An Introduction, 3rd edition, Harlow, Essex: Longman, page 5

Fill prefixes are a way of putting a certain string of characters at the beginning of each line in a paragraph or a file. Developers will immediately think of comments as a potential fill prefix. When writing email or newsposts, email programs often insert a string to help readers distinguish the threads of a discussion.

2005, Debra Cameron, James Elliott, Marc Loy, Eric [Steven] Raymond, Bill Rosenblatt, Learning GNU Emacs: A Guide to the World’s Most Extensible, Customizable Editor, 3rd edition, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media, Inc., page 183

But now…I just turn on my newsreader I’ve got like seven hundred blogs that I subscribe to and it trickles down and I say let me just search these newsposts about this particular article that I’m supposed to blog about, and I find about twenty or thirty of them.

2009, Kristina Schneider, quoting Mark, “[Case studies] Case 4 – Mark”, in Edublogging: A Qualitative Study of Training and Development Bloggers, Montreal, Que.: Acorda Press, page 92

This book also has many excerpts from the newspost, which is kind of new. I’ve dropped them in on occasion before, especially if it was something of an extended nature, but this is the first time I’ve grabbed great handfuls of stuff and said “I like that” without feeling the need to resort to some kind of ironic dismissal. Recall that for the first several years of the site, I didn’t even archive the newsposts: I just deleted that field out of the HTML and started fresh.

2012 September 17, Tycho Brahe [pseudonym; Jerry Holkins], “Intro 9”, in Passion’s Howl (Penny Arcade; 9), Portland, Ore.: Oni Press, Inc., published 2013

Your Internet connection leaves a trail of sorts that becomes imprinted on all of your online activities. This fingerprint is foremost your IP address. Browser web page requests (and your browser’s cookies), web search history, email messages, social media posts, chat sessions, torrent file-sharing traffic and Usenet newsposts will normally all leave behind remnants of your IP address in one way or another. […] Like other elements of the Internet, Usenet requires its own primary app (called a newsreader) and has its own terminology. Your newsreader app accesses a news server which contains newgroups which further contain messages (called newsposts, posts or articles).

2015, Matthew Bailey, Complete Guide to Internet Privacy, Anonymity & Security: How to Prevent Online Tracking and Profiling; Be Safe from Hackers, Snoops and Surveillance; Avoid Censorship; and Be Anonymous Online, Nerel, pages 16 and 167

(Internet) A message posted to a newsgroup.


varint

This is the case with the number of inputs in a normal transaction, so using varints helps to save space.

2019, Jimmy Song, Programming Bitcoin: Learn How to Program Bitcoin from Scratch, O'Reilly, page 91

(programming) Clipping of variable-length integer.


slugify

en-verb

slugify (third-person singular simple present slugifies, present participle slugifying, simple past and past participle slugified)

slugifies (present singular third-person)
slugifying (participle present)
slugified (participle past)
slugified (past)

The slugify filter will slugify the given string: […]

2020, Nigel George, Mastering Django, GNW Independent Publishing, page 68

(programming, uncommon) To transform (a string) into a slug.


search space

(mathematics, computing) The set of all possible points of an optimization problem that satisfy the problem's targets or goals.


Joda-Time

Joda time is a complete alternative to the JDK date and time classes and seeks to replace them.

Joda-Time is a powerful open source library well known and used in the market that works with time, dates, and chronology:

2014, Rodrigo Turini, Practical Java 8 - Lambdas, Streams and New Resources

Later the decision was made to integrate Joda-Time or something similar to it into Java's core libraries

2015, Terrill Brett Spell, Pro Java 8 Programming, page 94

(computing, software, programming) A widely used date and time processing library.


squaregraph

(graph theory) a type of undirected graph that can be drawn in the plane in such a way that every bounded face is a quadrilateral and every vertex with three or fewer neighbors is incident to an unbounded face.


thin content

In addition to improper code, there are other content-related issues, like duplication or thin content, that can also hold back rankings and SEO performance

2023, Matthew Edgar, Tech SEO Guide: A Reference Guide for Developers and Marketers Involved in Technical SEO, Apress, →DOI, page 43

(SEO) Pages on a website that contain little or no useful information.


spinup time

en-noun

spinup time (countable and uncountable, plural spinup times)

Coordinate term: spindown time

(computing, computer hardware) The period of time required by a hard drive or optical disc to accelerate from a stopped state to an operational speed.


spindown time

spindown time (countable and uncountable, plural spindown times)

Coordinate term: spinup time

(computing, computer hardware) The period of time required by a hard drive or optical disc to decelerate from an operational speed to stopped state.


Simlish

constructed language
constructed language

A constructed language designed by Will Wright for the video game franchise The Sims.


PokéTuber

These PokéTubers have amassed massive followings thanks to their likable personality, knowledge of the franchise, and consistency of quality and quantity.

2021 July 28, David Caballero, “10 Most Popular PokéTubers, Ranked By Subscribers”, in Screen Rant, archived from the original on 2022-11-05

(fandom slang) A YouTuber who makes videos about Pokémon.


referand

(programming, rare) A referent; that which is referred to.


corridor shooter

corridor shooter (plural corridor shooters)

first-person shooter
first-person shooter

(video games) A first-person shooter in an indoor setting based around corridors or tunnels.


Minecraftlike

en-adj

Minecraftlike (comparative more Minecraftlike, superlative most Minecraftlike)

more Minecraftlike (comparative)
most Minecraftlike (superlative)

2015 July 25, Heath Hindman, “4 Screens Give a Look at Dragon Quest’s Minecraftlike Spinoff”, in PlayStation LifeStyle:

Resembling or characteristic of the game Minecraft.


shoulder button

en-noun

shoulder button (plural shoulder buttons)

(video games) A button placed on the upper corner of a gamepad or handheld console, typically providing analogue input.


USB killer

Once fully charged, the USB killer discharges the stored power back into the connected computer (or, in fact, anything with a USB port), causing irreparable hardware damage.

2020, Alan Calder, Cyber Security: Essential principles to secure your organisation, IT Governance Ltd, page 42

(computer security) A device designed to send high-voltage power surges into the USB data lines of the device it is connected to, which will damage hardware components.


arcade adventure

arcade adventure (plural arcade adventures)

(video games, dated) A game combining the action elements of an arcade game with the narrative elements of an adventure game.


write over

en-verb

write over (third-person singular simple present writes over, present participle writing over, simple past wrote over, past participle written over)

writes over (present singular third-person)
writing over (participle present)
wrote over (past)
written over (participle past)

(transitive, computing) To save a piece of data in place of other data; to overwrite.


error correct

error correct (third-person singular simple present error corrects, present participle error correcting, simple past and past participle error corrected)

error corrects (present singular third-person)
error correcting (participle present)
error corrected (participle past)
error corrected (past)


save over

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

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


popoff

Valorant Champions is set to kick off on August 31 with the top teams from around the world fighting for the trophy in Istanbul, Turkey. Out of those 16 teams, here are five players that fans should keep their eyes on throughout Valorant Champions for popoff plays.

2022 August 30, Declan Mclaughlin, “Top 5 players to watch at Valorant Champions 2022”, in Dexerto, archived from the original on 2023-03-27

(video games, slang) A period of time where a player performs extremely well in a video game.


black-hat hacking

(computing, computer security) The action or practice of a black hat hacker.


unpirateable

en-adj

unpirateable (comparative more unpirateable, superlative most unpirateable)

more unpirateable (comparative)
most unpirateable (superlative)

In addition to being completely unnecessary for a single-player game and a blatant attempt to make the game unpirateable at the cost of consumers, "Always-Online" also completely screwed up Simcity's launch when the servers malfunctioned for weeks, leaving customers unable to play their own game.

2014 January 16, Tom McKay, “This Company Could Be Named the Worst in the U.S. 3 Years in a Row. But Why Do They Suck?”, in MIC

2016 January 12, Chad Sapieha, “Just Cause 3 is proving nearly unpirateable, and that's great”, in Financial Post

One of the reasons many companies decided to switch to online and live service games is exactly that they are unpirateable.

2023 August 24, Switch_Pro, “Denuvo's 'Switch Emulator Protection' Is Now Available Via Nintendo's Official Dev Portal”, in Nintendo Life

(software, computing) Not able to be pirated by third parties.


scrollytelling

(Internet) Storytelling enriched with multimedial elements triggered while scrolling down a webpage.


ancilla bit

(computing) An extra bit (binary digit) used to implement irreversible logical operations.


face tank

en-verb

face tank (third-person singular simple present face tanks, present participle face tanking, simple past and past participle face tanked)

face tanks (present singular third-person)
face tanking (participle present)
face tanked (participle past)
face tanked (past)

From tank (“attract or resist damage”) and face (“the player character as opposed to minions”), the idea being that to face tank is to accept enemy attacks without any attempt to deflect their damage to non-player entities; thus, to simply absorb them directly.

(video games) To absorb damage directly, especially in an unsophisticated or unskillful way.


soundfont

From the trademark SoundFont, from sound + font.

In the description of the upload, Brad gave credit to Mine Timelapser for providing the soundfont for K.K Slider’s instrumentals. This has all of K.K. Slider’s notes available to download for composers that wish to recreate songs in the style of the guitar-playing dog.

2020 August 22, Max Mastrogiacomo, “Gravity Falls Composer Recreates Theme Song As Animal Crossing’s KK Slider”, in ScreenRant (news)

It quite incredibly recreates the entire 43-minute album with the Super Mario 64 soundfont (a soundfont is essentially all the files used to create a given soundtrack), and I can only speculate at the amount of time that's gone into this.

2023 January 27, Rich Stanton, “Legend recreates entire Radiohead album with Mario 64 sounds, even Jonny Greenwood likes it”, in PC Gamer (news)

"About two years ago I made a version of Roygbiv by Boards Of Canada in the Mario 64 soundfont," he said.

2023 May 2, Courtney Fry, “Nintendo 64 covers of massive tunes are flooding YouTube, but who's making them?”, in ABC News (news)

(video games, informal) The set of digitized instruments used in the soundtrack of a video game.


startup time

en-noun

startup time (countable and uncountable, plural startup times)

(computing, computer hardware) The boot time of a system in addition to the amount of time required for the operating system to load and initialize all its services and programs.


boot time

boot time (countable and uncountable, plural boot times)

Coordinate term: startup time

(computing, computer hardware) The amount of time required to load the kernel of an operating system, its device drivers, and the initialization of the hardware.


leap smearing

(computing) The handling of a leap second by gradually distorting hours of surrounding time, rather than changing the system clock by a whole second at once.


Boehm collector

Boehm collector (plural Boehm collectors)

(programming) A kind of mark-and-sweep garbage collector .


OPFS

(computing) Initialism of Origin Private File System.


GaaS

Glu Mobile, who realigned its workforce towards centralized GaaS functions last year, announced earlier this month that it will shut down GameSpy Technology on May 31. The service provides multiplayer functionality for dozens of games on consoles, computers and mobile devices.

2014 May 1, Jenna Pitcher, “Glu Mobile acquires Diner Dash developer PlayFirst”, in Polygon, archived from the original on 2023-09-27

(video games) Initialism of games as a service.


COEP

(Internet, Web) Initialism of cross-origin embedder policy.


cross-origin

Coordinate term: same-origin

(computer security) Located outside or leaving the domain (origin) from where the active resource (e.g. a web page) was loaded from.


unprovision

en-verb

unprovision (third-person singular simple present unprovisions, present participle unprovisioning, simple past and past participle unprovisioned)

unprovisions (present singular third-person)
unprovisioning (participle present)
unprovisioned (participle past)
unprovisioned (past)

(transitive, computing) Synonym of deprovision


COOP

(Internet, Web) Initialism of cross-origin opener policy.


Abbreviation of follow for follow, substituting for for the number which is pronounced the same; itself clipped from follow for a follow or follow for a follow back. Compare sub4sub.

(Internet slang) On social media services, the practice of following a user's account in exchange for said person to follow one's account back, usually with the goal of artificially inflating one's follower count.


Abbreviation of like for like, itself a clipping of like for a like back or a similar phrasing; otherwise analysable as like (“to show approval of something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote”) + 4 (“abbreviation of for”) + like.

compound

(Internet slang) On social media services, the practice of liking a person's post or page in exchange for said person mutually liking one's post or page back, sometimes with the goal of artificially inflating one's like count.


buy-to-play

(video games) That which can be played with a single, one-time purchase, instead of a subscription-based model or being free; pay-to-play.