GiBps

For the 416-million-element case of PHASTA on 32 Intrepid racks consisting of about 20 GiB, GLEAN was able to transfer this data in about 0.6s, achieving around 34 GiBps.

2014 October 23, High Performance Parallel I/O, CRC Press, page 222

Even the 6-round variant of OPP is able to maintain high speeds at 0.75 cpb (4.67 GiBps) reducing the distance to the above competitors to factors of 1.37, 0.92, 2.78, and 1.28. [...] On Haswell MRS achieves 2.40 cpb (l = 4) and 3.58 cpb (l = 6) which translate to throughputs of 1.45 GiBps and 0.97 GiBps, respectively.

2016 April 27, Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2016, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, page 288


hypersequential

(programming) Of or relating to a means of serializing a concurrent program so that it can be debugged as though it were sequential, before converting it back to concurrent form.


LPE

en-noun

LPE (countable and uncountable, plural LPEs)

(computing) Initialism of local privilege escalation.


reference type

(programming) A data type that represents a reference to a value, as opposed to the value itself.


chunklength

(computing) The length of a chunk of data.


QTM

QTM (countable and uncountable, plural QTMs)

quantum Turing machine
quantum Turing machine#English

(computer science, quantum mechanics) Abbreviation of quantum Turing machine.


antiportal

(computer graphics) A defined plane or volume that can never be seen through, and which thus reduces the number of calculations involved in rendering a three-dimensional scene.


cube map

(computer graphics) A panorama consisting of six textures projected onto the sides of a cube that is usually centred on the camera or viewpoint.


WDDX

(Internet) Abbreviation of Web Distributed Data eXchange.


I-D

(Internet) Abbreviation of Internet Draft.


photobash

en-verb

photobash (third-person singular simple present photobashes, present participle photobashing, simple past and past participle photobashed)

photobashes (present singular third-person)
photobashing (participle present)
photobashed (participle past)
photobashed (past)

(computer graphics) To compose a digital image from multiple assets, such as photos and 3D models, with artistic interpretation to modify and blend them together seamlessly.


outprint

[…] it seems at least dubious whether the fact that the information was released by means of an outprint from a computer rather than some other means should affect the liability.

1990, Peter Seipel, From Data Protection to Knowledge Machines


(Internet, Wi-Fi) Initialism of Wi-Fi Protected Access II.


(Internet, Wi-Fi) Initialism of Wi-Fi Protected Access 3.


fit and finish

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) Those features that are not essential functionality of the software, but are otherwise important or useful, such as localization or improving the user interface.


hack-and-slasher

A film, video game or other work focused mainly on violence rather than strategy.


dark academia

Reportedly first emerged as an aesthetic tag on Tumblr in the mid-2010s.

Dark Academia has received valid criticism for its Eurocentrism and elitism.

2021, Jacqueline Kipping, "Dark academia", The Issue (Radboud University), Fall 2021, page 21

I thought that dark academia and brownstone mansions were all that Boston had to offer, or at least, it didn’t occur to me to even consider what might be beyond my idealistic vision.

2021, Caitlin Haviland, "Breaking the BU Bubble", The Buzz (Boston University), Fall 2021, page 67

As a recent example of the ‘dark academia’ trend in literature, the novel effectively examines and subverts the romanticised view of so-called ‘prestigious’ universities.

2023, Rebecca van Besouw, "Literature Spotlight: Babel by RF Kuang", PDBY (University of Pretoria), 8 May 2023, page 11

(Internet) An aesthetic popularized in the 2010s, centered on higher education, writing, the arts, and classic Greek and Gothic architecture, as well as romantic longing and death.


systems programming

(computing) The activity of programming system software (e.g. operating systems, as opposed to applications)


systems programmer

en-noun

systems programmer (plural systems programmers)

(computing) A programmer responsible for systems programming


sysprog

The sysprogs of the 1970s and early '80s also tended the mainframe as it shook and rattled incongruously on the edge of Dartmouth's Colonial campus.

2017, Virginia Heffernan, Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art, page 19

(computing, colloquial, dated) A systems programmer.


special character

special character (plural special characters)

(computing) A symbol that is not an alphanumeric character; a nonalphanumeric character.


entry point

(programming) A location in a program or software library that can be called from outside, and from which the execution of code begins.


entrypoint

The entrypoint of all DLLs attached to the process at the time the thread starts will be called.

1993, James W. McCord, Win32 API: Desktop Reference, page 480

Now that the entrypoint is defined, you can now access it from the browser. Pointing your browser to the following URL formatted will direct the request to the entrypoint: […]

2010, John Mertic, The Definitive Guide to SugarCRM: Better Business Applications, page 21

(programming) Alternative form of entry point


fintwit

3:00 - 4:00pm: […] Get caught up on any news on BNNBloomberg.ca, CNBC.com and Twitter ("fintwit" community)

2018 October 19, Robin Speziale, “My daily routine”, in Capital Compounders: How to Beat the Market and Make Money Investing in Growth Stocks, page 170

Trump has commented on the stock market more than 30 times since his election[…]Here’s a look at Trump’s #FinTwit habit and the S&P 500]

[2018 October 30, Sarah Ponczek, Vildana Hajric, “All of Trump's Stock Market Tweets in One Chart”, in Bloomberg News

Read that Wall Street Journal or other industry publications, follow "FinTwit" on social media, listen to that podcast[…]]

[2020 November, Kate Healy, “AdvoKate: Nurture Yourself, Stand Out from the Crowd”, in Journal of Financial Planning, volume 33, number 11, pages 29–30

(Internet slang) That part of the Twitter microblogging community that tweets about finance and stock markets.


computer network

computer network (plural computer networks)

(computing, networking) A group of computers that use a set of common communication protocols over digital interconnections for the purpose of sharing resources located on or provided by the network nodes.


pfp

Ever since the hackers stole the NFTs, Becerra has been trying to tell everyone on the internet not to buy them from the hackers. “Help me get my pfp [profile picture] ape back! Don’t let them win! Please don’t bid or pay for these stolen apes,” he wrote on Twitter.

2021 November 3, Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, “Man Upset That Hackers Stole His Bored Ape NFTs”, in Vice

(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of profile picture.


trojanize

en-verb

trojanize (third-person singular simple present trojanizes, present participle trojanizing, simple past and past participle trojanized)

trojanizes (present singular third-person)
trojanizing (participle present)
trojanized (participle past)
trojanized (past)

trojanized binary

(computing, transitive) To transform (something) into a trojan.


buddy block

buddy memory allocation
buddy memory allocation

(computing theory) A block of memory associated with another block and able to be merged with it, in the system of buddy memory allocation.


redebug

redebug (third-person singular simple present redebugs, present participle redebugging, simple past and past participle redebugged)

redebugs (present singular third-person)
redebugging (participle present)
redebugged (participle past)
redebugged (past)

/ˌɹiːdiːˈbʌɡ/


redebug

/ˌɹiːdiːˈbʌɡ/

(computing) An instance of debugging again.


meme stock

Journalists covering the story have tended to gesture towards possible impetuses, and there are undoubtedly many underlying factors that led to r/wallstreetbets’ choosing GameStop as a “meme stock”, which have surely evolved with the saga (screwing Wall Street; making money; a genuine belief in the fundamentals of GameStop’s business model).

2021 January 28, Dan Dixon, “Anarchy, in-jokes and trolling: the GameStop fiasco is 4chan-think in action”, in The Guardian

Individual YOLO decisions can be chalked up to many factors: cabin fever, low interest rates, the emergence of new get-rich-quick schemes like NFTs and meme stocks.

2021 April 21, Kevin Roose, “Welcome to the YOLO Economy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(finance, Internet slang) A company's stock that is hyped up and overbought by inexperienced investors, leading it to be overvalued.


zero-rate

zero-rate (third-person singular simple present zero-rates, present participle zero-rating, simple past and past participle zero-rated)

zero-rates (present singular third-person)
zero-rating (participle present)
zero-rated (participle past)
zero-rated (past)

To provide Internet access without financial cost under certain conditions, such as by permitting access to only certain websites, by subsidizing the service with advertising, or by exempting certain websites from data allowances.


compatibilize

compatibilize (third-person singular simple present compatibilizes, present participle compatibilizing, simple past and past participle compatibilized)

compatibilizes (present singular third-person)
compatibilizing (participle present)
compatibilized (participle past)
compatibilized (past)

(transitive, US, informal, computer science) To make compatible.


intromercial

(Internet) Synonym of preroll (“advertisement shown before the main content”)


data engineer

information technology
information technology

An information technology professional who develops data storage, processing and analytics solutions in a business setting.


email list

An electronic mailing list consisting of a database of email addresses and sometimes other information.


chaincode

(computing) Alternative form of chain code

(computing) A form of blockchain program used with a hyperledger


chain code

(computing) A program that compresses a monochrome image


haplotyper

(biology, computing) A piece of software that characterises haplotypes.


MMOG

massively multiplayer online game#English

Initialism of massively multiplayer online game.


clicker game

(video games) A simplistic casual game in which the player makes progress by repeatedly clicking elements on the screen.


fast travel

(video games) The ability to travel instantaneously between previously discovered locations in an open world.


fast travel

fast travel (third-person singular simple present fast travels, present participle fast traveling or fast travelling, simple past and past participle fast traveled or fast travelled)

fast travels (present singular third-person)
fast traveling (participle present)
fast travelling (participle present)
fast traveled (participle past)
fast traveled (past)
fast travelled (participle past)
fast travelled (past)

I measured the distance to the castle and fast traveled us to the steps. “Fifth floor, center of the building,” Ryo said, his eyes measuring my expression. A Lurcher swarmed at us, and Grigfen shot a wave of ghostlight to knock it over.

2020 February 18, Sheena Boekweg, Glitch Kingdom, Feiwel & Friends

She could see that fifty NPCs had fast-traveled from an unlisted location in the complex to another unlisted location in the complex. It didn't tell her where the node was, but it told her that fast-travel was active within Bare Metal[…]

2021 November 30, Joseph R. Lallo, Top Level Player, Joseph R. Lallo

He tells you to fast travel to the Room of Awakening (yay we've unlocked fast travel!) to reach the fourth shrine.[…]

2023 May 21, GamerGuides.com, The Legend of Zelda - Tears of the Kingdom - Strategy Guide, Gamer Guides

(video games) To travel instantaneously between previously discovered locations in an open world.


IMG

(file format) A disk image of a filesystem.


CISA

w:en:Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

(US, government, computing, security) Acronym of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.


virtual YouTuber

en-noun

virtual YouTuber (plural virtual YouTubers)

From Japanese バーチャルYouTuber, from English virtual + YouTuber.

Alternative forms: VTuber, (slang) chuuba

corpo VTuber ― virtual YouTuber who is affiliated with a corporation

indie VTuber ― independent virtual YouTuber

An Internet personality (video creator or streamer) who operates using a virtual avatar, as a fictional or fictionalized character.


art track

(Internet) A YouTube video automatically generated by Google, consisting of a track in the YouTube Music repertoire and a still of its associated album art.


crimping tool

(electricity) A tool used to crimp, to join two pieces of metal.


snake-in-the-box problem

the snake-in-the-box problem (canonical)

(graph theory) The problem of finding the longest possible induced path in a hypercube.


From /d/ - Hentai/Alternative, an imageboard on 4chan, inspired by /b/tard. Taken from degenerate with humorous emphasis on the initial letter in reference to /d/'s stigma of degeneracy due to its content often veering into sexual fetishism.

(Internet slang) A habitual poster on the /d/ - Hentai/Alternative board on 4chan; a member of the /d/ community.


USB data blocker

USB data blocker (plural USB data blockers)

A piece of hardware through which a USB cable and a USB hub are connected designed to only transmit electrical energy but not data in order to avert juice jacking.

USB-кондо́м

USB data transmission blocker through which the USB connection runs


PMMU

(computing) Initialism of paged memory management unit.


inner-platform effect

inner-platform effect (plural inner-platform effects)

(software engineering) An antipattern in which a system is made so customizable as to become a (poor) replica of the development platform used to create it.


marked-up

In order to overcome inconsistencies in the data structure an iterative system of checking output and refining programs in response was instituted and the entire marked-up text was read closely in order to remove any remaining irregularities.

2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 489

(computing) Having had markup coding added.


spritemap

(computer graphics) A collection of sprites that may all be downloaded in a single operation


hurtbox

(video games) The area (hitbox) around a character in a fighting game such that, if an attack impinges upon it, the character will take damage.


simcade

(video games) A game with the simple, intuitive controls of an arcade game but also having some of the technical accuracy of a simulation.


RFB

RFB (countable and uncountable, plural RFBs)

Coordinate term: VNC

(countable, computing, telecommunications) Abbreviation of remote frame buffer (protocol).


PR-friendly

en-adj

PR-friendly (comparative more PR-friendly, superlative most PR-friendly)

more PR-friendly (comparative)
most PR-friendly (superlative)

a PR-friendly blog

(Internet, euphemistic) Willing to be approached by brands in order to endorse goods and services.


confessions page

(Internet) a social networking platform for posting anonymous confessions and secrets, especially in school and university communities


subround

(cryptography) A subsidiary stage of encryption, part of a round.


final method

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(object-oriented programming) A class method that cannot be extended, so it has to be inherited as it is.


megahash

(computing, cryptocurrencies) A million hashes.


terahash

(computing, cryptocurrencies) A trillion (10¹²) hashes.


hashrate

Specialized hardware like a GPU is designed to do large numbers of small tasks very quickly, and so excel at hashing: typically a single GPU can produce a hashrate at least ten times faster than that of a single CPU.

2017, Adam Rothstein, The End of Money, John Murray Press

(computing, cryptocurrencies) The number of proof of work hashes that a mining computer can make in a given period of time, usually a second.


NPU

neural processing unit
neural processing unit#English

(computing) Initialism of neural processing unit.

network processing unit
network processing unit#English

(computing) Initialism of network processing unit.

numeric processing unit
numeric processing unit#English

numerical processing unit
numerical processing unit#English

(computing) Initialism of numeric processing unit/numerical processing unit.


CUI

TUI

touch user interface, textual user interface/text-based user interface, terminal user interface, tangible user interface

command user interface
command user interface#English

(computing, acronym and initialism) Abbreviation of command user interface.

character-based user interface
character-based user interface#English

(computing, acronym and initialism) Abbreviation of character-based user interface.


VUI

CUI

command user interface, character-based user interface

voice user interface
voice user interface#English

(computing) Abbreviation of voice user interface.


IDOR

insecure direct object reference
w:insecure direct object reference

(computing) Abbreviation of insecure direct object reference.


thinkfluencer

From thinkfluence + -er, or equivalently, a blend of think + influencer.

It would be easy for an ungenerous observer to conclude that their parliament is little more than the entrepreneurial initiative of a few TED-style thinkfluencers – just another half-formed idea coughed up by smooth talkers with books to sell and consulting gigs to line up.

2014 September 18, Adam Greenfield, “A global parliament of mayors? Just what cities need – more bureaucracy”, in The Guardian

That's why the first rule of any revolution is to wipe out the intellectuals. Trump is surely already dreaming of the vast logging camp he will fill with the Republican thinkfluencers who are at the moment making a show of being the last holdouts.

2017, Matt Taibbi, Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus, New York, NY: Spiegel & Grau, page 180

The emotional underpinnings of this economy have been best theorized by Venkatesh Rao, a 46-year-old writer and business consultant, who has become something of a negative futurist, a thinkfluencer’s thinkfluencer.

2020 January 19, Kyle Chayka, “How Nothingness Became Everything We Wanted”, in The New York Times Magazine

(Internet, informal, sometimes derogatory) An influencer who posts their thoughts and analysis.


DeFi

DeFi services use smart contracts, cryptocurrency, and blockchain to replace some of the services that banking has traditionally provided.

2020, Lorne Lantz, Daniel Cawrey, Mastering Blockchain, O'Reilly Media, page 158

DeFi eliminates human intermediaries like brokers, bank clerks and traders, and instead uses algorithms to execute financial transactions, such as lending and borrowing.

2021 September 5, Eric Lipton, Ephrat Livni, “Crypto’s Rapid Move Into Banking Elicits Alarm in Washington”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

decentralized finance
decentralized finance#English

(finance, cryptocurrencies) Acronym of decentralized finance.


decentralized finance

An experimental form of finance that does not rely on central financial intermediaries, but instead uses smart contracts on blockchains.


/me

From IRC (Internet Relay Chat) and related systems, in which this command generates a text-based action performed by a user: for example, /me dances around might produce the message John dances around.

ENOTUITS! /me is already sorely over-committed

2010 January 29, "David E. Wheeler" (username), "[HACKERS] Review: listagg aggregate", in pgsql.hackers, Mailing list

(computing, humorous) I (the person writing)


user-defined

(computing) Created or defined by the user of a system, rather than being included in the original package.


Turán graph

Named after the Hungarian mathematician Pál Turán.

(graph theory) A complete multipartite graph T(n,r) formed by partitioning a set of n vertices into r subsets, with sizes as equal as possible, and connecting two vertices by an edge if and only if they belong to different subsets.


Airbnb

/ˌɛəɹˌbiːɛnˈbiː/

Shortening of the company's former name AirBed & Breakfast, coined by co-founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia in 2007, who originally came up with the idea of putting an air mattress in their living room and turning it into a bed and breakfast. Equivalent to air + B&B (“bed and breakfast”).

(trademark) An American vacation rental online marketplace company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2008.


stunlock

en-verb

stunlock (third-person singular simple present stunlocks, present participle stunlocking, simple past and past participle stunlocked)

stunlocks (present singular third-person)
stunlocking (participle present)
stunlocked (participle past)
stunlocked (past)

I got stunlocked by that boss' electric attack and died.

(video games, transitive) To render (a character) unable to move or react by repeatedly hitting them and keeping them in a stunned state.


stunlock

en-noun

stunlock (countable and uncountable, plural stunlocks)

(video games) A stunned state of this kind.


softmasked

(computer graphics, of an image) Whose edges have been softened by softmasking.


softmask

en-verb

softmask (third-person singular simple present softmasks, present participle softmasking, simple past and past participle softmasked)

softmasks (present singular third-person)
softmasking (participle present)
softmasked (participle past)
softmasked (past)

(computer graphics) To convert hard edges in an image to soft ones, by the use of a "fuzzy" mask.


softmask

(computer graphics) A mask of this kind.


anarboricity

From an- + arboricity. Coined by Ronald C. Read; the etymologically inaccurate Greek prefix an- was chosen to achieve a pun on the name of Ann Arbor, where the University of Michigan is based.

(graph theory) The maximum number of edge-disjoint cyclic subgraphs of a graph G whose union is G.


post-WIMP

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) Belonging to user interface designs that move away from the traditional windows, icons, menus and pointer in an attempt to find something better.


Church-Turing thesis

Named after American mathematician Alonzo Church and British mathematician Alan Turing.

(computing theory) A hypothesis about the nature of computable functions, stating that a function on the natural numbers can be calculated by an effective method if and only if it is computable by a Turing machine.

Alan Turing
Alonzo Church
Church-Turing thesis


lyricon

(computing) A form of earcon or musicon that incorporates musically intoned speech.


programming in the small

Coordinate term: programming in the large

software engineering
software engineering

programming language
programming language

(software engineering) Writing individual lines of code in a programming language.

Programming in the large and programming in the small


programming in the large

Coordinate term: programming in the small

(software engineering) Designing a complex software system as a composition of smaller parts.


Ousterhout's dichotomy

Introduced by computer scientist John Ousterhout.

(software engineering) The tendency for high-level programming languages to fall into one of two groups: systems programming languages and scripting languages.


wake-on-LAN

(computing) A networking standard that allows a computer to be turned on or awakened by a network message.


wombo combo

Reduplication. Popularized following its use by commentators on a 2008 tournament match of the fighting game Super Smash Bros. Melee in a video clip which spread virally. Likely an oblique reference to a menu item from the Northern California pizza chain restaurant Round Table Pizza introduced in 2004.

One League player showcased a superb wombo combo in a Reddit post yesterday, which began with Gnar and Sett’s ultimates and ended with a Vayne pentakill.

2020, Andreas Stavropoulos, “Insane Gnar and Sett wombo combo helps Vayne player secure pentakill”, in Dot Esports

[…] it would not be surprising if Ox and the Bison were to gang up against this wretched foe. In a visually comical but spiritually inspiring act of animal solidarity, they instinctively go for the obvious wombo-combo: The Bison charges Mr. Hoosier Pride, who trips over the bulldog braced behind him.

2021, Juno Martin, “OPINION: Which of IU’s historical mascots would win in a fight for the soul of Hoosier pride?”, in Indiana Daily Student

(slang, chiefly video games) A combination of actions which create a decisive advantage (often involving coordination between teammates).


wombo combo

wombo combo (third-person singular simple present wombo combos, present participle wombo comboing, simple past and past participle wombo comboed)

wombo combos (present singular third-person)
wombo comboing (participle present)
wombo comboed (participle past)
wombo comboed (past)

Just leave it as it used to be so we can stop worrying about "balancing" teams. It is supposed to be fun games with a friend to wombo combo on other bros with silly dumb synergies.

2014, Justen A.K.A Panda, “AdeptiCon Rules Packets are off to the printers”, in Chicago Malifaux Players mailing list

Kaiba is completely wombo-comboed by Yugi this turn, as he uses the effect of Apple Magician Girl to bring Lemon Magician Girl onto the field, who then brings out the Dark Magician Girl to just absolutely trash Kaiba.

2020, Eric Jeffries, “Yu-Gi-Oh!: Every Magician Card Yugi Ever Used”, in CBR.com

(slang, chiefly video games, transitive, intransitive) To perform a wombo combo (against someone).


paging file

(computing) An area of storage on disk that the operating system uses as if it were RAM.

αρχείο σελιδοποίησης

area of storage on disk used as if it were RAM


merge-purge

merge-purge (third-person singular simple present merge-purges, present participle merge-purging, simple past and past participle merge-purged)

merge-purges (present singular third-person)
merge-purging (participle present)
merge-purged (participle past)
merge-purged (past)

(computing, dated) To combine two lists of data, removing any duplicate entries.


postdominator

(graph theory) A node that postdominates another.


esoteric programming language

en-noun

esoteric programming language (plural esoteric programming languages)

(programming) A programming language with highly unconventional syntax or operation, designed as an experiment or as a joke rather than for the serious development of software.


postdominance

(graph theory) The property of a node that postdominates another.


systems language

systems language (plural systems languages)

(computing) A programming language used for systems programming.


postdominate

en-verb

postdominate (third-person singular simple present postdominates, present participle postdominating, simple past and past participle postdominated)

postdominates (present singular third-person)
postdominating (participle present)
postdominated (participle past)
postdominated (past)

(graph theory) A node z postdominates a node n if all paths to the exit node of the graph starting at n must go through z


software archaeology

(computing) The study of poorly documented or undocumented legacy software implementations, as part of maintaining those systems.


WhatsApper

Emphasis on “tried.” The roughly 4,000-word tome fell under fire from countless WhatsAppers across the globe after the company told its users that they’ll be ejected from the platform unless they abide by these new terms.

2021 January 15, Shoshana Wodinsky, “This Was WhatsApp's Plan All Along”, in Gizmodo.com, G/O Media Inc., retrieved 2021-02-15

(Internet) A user of the WhatsApp instant messaging service.


DOAC

(computer science) Acronym of description of a career. (an RDF format describing a person's professional background)


GSG

GSGs allow the gamer to consume history set by the developer and to compare it with their own historical experience and knowledge.

2021, Vera Lakmaker, "Aftr-Action Reports In Europa Universalis IV: How do AARs represent the past?", thesis submitted to Erasmus University Rotterdam, page 2

While the focus of this study is on grand strategy games the actual game being considered in the experiments is a generic game rather than a complete commercial GSG.

2022, Jen Ottander, "Fair Partitioning of Procedurally Generated Game Maps for Grand Strategy Games", thesis submitted to Umeå University, page 29

Therefore, this thesis has explored a possible improved rendering approach to enhance the graphical experience when playing GSG.

2022, Kajsa Buckard, "Hybrid Rendering in 3D Map-Based Grand Strategy Games", thesis submitted to the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, page 3

grand strategy game
grand strategy game#English


F Lock

(computing) A lock key that toggles the behaviour of the function keys between their traditional (application-defined) behaviours and a set of new commands.


version control

(software engineering) A system responsible for managing modifications and additions to digital works, giving each revision a time-stamp and showing its difference to the previous revision.


loot whore

(video games, roleplaying games, slang, often derogatory) A person who plays video games or tabletop role-playing games for the primary purpose of acquiring in-game items, sometimes to the detriment of fellow players.


chainik

(Internet, slang) Someone new to a computing system or online community.


FEP

en-noun

FEP (countable and uncountable, plural FEPs)

front-end processor
front-end processor#English

(computing) Abbreviation of front-end processor.


NFT

NFT (countable and uncountable, plural NFTs)

(programming) Initialism of non-functional test.

NFTs can be used to represent ownership of a digital or physical asset; for example, CryptoKitties is an Ethereum game in which each digital collectible kitten is represented with a unique NFT token. NFTs can also be used to represent a piece of digital art, that is unique and non-fungible.

2019, Jitendra Chittoda, Mastering Blockchain Programming with Solidity, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 216

The Winklevii rode the cryptocurrency wave to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and are bullish on NFTs. They ask why collecting digital art should be any different from collecting rare baseball cards.

2021 February 17, Mickey Rapkin, “‘Beeple Mania’: How Mike Winkelmann Makes Millions Selling Pixels”, in Esquire

“Everydays” was the first purely digital NFT sold by Christie’s, and it offered to accept payment in Ethereum, another first for the 255-year-old auction house.

2021 March 11, Scott Reyburn, “JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as ‘NFT Mania’ Gathers Pace”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

non-fungible token
non-fungible token#English

(cryptocurrencies) Initialism of non-fungible token.


NFT

en-verb

NFT (third-person singular simple present NFTs, present participle NFTing, simple past and past participle NFTed or NFT'd)

NFTs (present singular third-person)
NFTing (participle present)
NFTed (participle past)
NFTed (past)
NFT'd (participle past)
NFT'd (past)

Typically, the art object that gets NFT’d is a digital file — maybe a JPEG image or an MP4 video — that lives on some hard drive, and that looks or sounds precisely the way it would have in the decades before NFTs came along.

2022 March 3, Blake Gopnik, “One Year After Beeple, the NFT Has Changed Artists. Has It Changed Art?”, in The New York Times

(transitive, cryptocurrencies, neologism) To associate a non-fungible token (NFT) with.


hyperconverged

(computing) Implemented within a hypervisor


diceware

(computing) A method for creating passwords and similar cryptographic variables using ordinary dice to generate random numbers which are then mapped to words in a list.


destructive read

en-noun

destructive read (plural destructive reads)

Although ferroelectric RAM has many advantages over conventional DRAM, it does share one of DRAM's disadvantages: as with DRAM, reading a FeRAM cell is a destructive read process which erases any data in the cell. When using FeRAM for persistent nonvolatile storage, this destructive-read nature can potentially result in data loss or corruption if power to the device is suddenly lost during a read operation.

(computing, often attributive) A read operation that inherently erases the data that was read, requiring it to be immediately written back to the storage medium to prevent loss of data.


non-destructive read

non-destructive read (plural non-destructive reads)

Although non-destructive reads are theoretically possible with FeRAM, the process - requiring illumination of the memory cells with UV light - is completely impractical for most purposes, favoring the more-practical (but destructive) method of forcing every cell to 0, seeing which cells produced a tiny current pulse, and writing back 1s to those cells.

(computing, often attributive) A read operation that does not erase the data being read in the process of reading it.


affective computing

In fact, some HCI designers advocate the use of AFEA as a means of helping users better understand their emotions and individual psyches, suggesting that “affective computing” applications can be used for emotional and expressive self-assessment.

2011, Kelly A. Gates, Our Biometric Future, NYU Press, page 185

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(artificial intelligence) The study and development of systems and devices that can recognize, interpret, process, and simulate human affects.


captive portal

(computing) A web page shown to new users of an access point before they can access the greater Internet.


PoW

PoW (countable and uncountable, plural PoWs)

With PoW, as new, unverified transactions become available or broadcast to the entire blockchain network, each node that maintains a copy of the ledger (also known as a “miner”) verifies a set of those transactions to prevent so called “double spending”.

2019, Peng Zhang, Role of Blockchain Technology in IoT Applications, Academic Press, page 187

(countable and uncountable, cryptography, cryptocurrencies) Initialism of proof of work.


proof of work

proof of work (countable and uncountable, plural proofs of work)

The network timestamps transactions by hashing them into an ongoing chain of hash-based proof-of-work, forming a record that cannot be changed without redoing the proof-of-work.

2008 October 31, Satoshi Nakamoto, “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”, in metzdowd.com Cryptography Mailing List

Blockchains that use “proof-of-work”, as many popular cryptocurrencies do, raise yet another problem: they require a huge amount of raw energy to secure them.

2018 March 5, Nouriel Roubini, Preston Byrne, “Bitcoin is based on the blockchain pipe dream”, in The Guardian

(cryptography, cryptocurrencies) A form of cryptographic proof in which a prover proves to verifiers that a certain amount of a specific computational effort has been expended.


keyboard army

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

A group of people paid to defend the interests of their employer on social media platforms.


non-fungible token

non-fungible token (plural non-fungible tokens)

Coordinate term: fungible token

How do you know if you need a fungible or non-fungible token for your use case?

2020 October 9, Jamiel Sheikh, Mastering Corda, O'Reilly Media, page 298

A cryptocurrency token that records ownership of something.

but see nicht ersetzbares digital geschütztes Objekt


50 cent army

A calque of Chinese 五毛黨／五毛党 (wǔmáodǎng), lit. "the 5 dime party", in reference to allegations that the Chinese government employs online shills paid 1/2 yuan RMB per online post at the time they first came to public attention.

People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China

Alleged Internet users who are paid by the authorities of the People's Republic of China to spread propaganda and disinformation on their behalf.


hyperautomation

(rare, computing) Extreme automation; the automating of as many processes as possible.


sTLD

top-level domain
top-level domain#English

(Internet) Initialism of sponsored top-level domain.


misfetch

It also shows the conditional branch misprediction rate ( due to both misprediction and target address misfetch), the return misprediction rate, and the BTB miss rate .

1996, Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques, page 63

All branches and calls cause a misfetch when the branch is not present in the BTB.

1998, International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Conference Proceedings: June 27 - July 1, 1998, Barcelona, Spain, page 36

Unfortunately, the typical optimizations for cachelike structures, such as larger capacity or associativity, will not help in decreasing misfetches.

2010, Jean-Loup Baer, Microprocessor Architecture, page 148

(computing) An error that occurs when the wrong block of code is fetched in advance.


misfetch

en-verb

misfetch (third-person singular simple present misfetches, present participle misfetching, simple past and past participle misfetched)

misfetches (present singular third-person)
misfetching (participle present)
misfetched (participle past)
misfetched (past)

However, a single misfetched instruction can cause the system to begin executing code from nonexistent or improper memory locations, and it is unlikely to recover on its own.

1989, Michael Slater, Microprocessor-based Design, page 268

With Missf and Missp the percentages of branches that are misfetched and mispredicted, respectively (some branches can be both, as shown in two rows of Table 4.2), the contribution of the CPI due to branch execution, or the branch execution penalty bep expressed as a number of cycles, can be written in a first approximation (see the exercises) as […]

2010, Jean-Loup Baer, Microprocessor Architecture, page 149

The number of cycles wasted on each mispredicted or misfetched branch is larger than in a RISC processor.

2012, Michel Dubois, Murali Annavaram, Per Stenstrom, Parallel Computer Organization and Design, page 139

(computing) To fetch the wrong block of code or instruction.


hot patch

The use of hot patches allows the server to be kept fully up-to-date without any reboot-induced downtime.

(computing) A patch (software fix) which is applied to a system while it is running, without the need to reboot the system to complete the patching process.


microprogrammable

(computing) Capable of being microprogrammed


microoperative

(computing) Relating to, or implemented by means of microoperations


open rate

Coordinate term: click-through rate

You calculate your open rate by using your non-bounce rate instead of the total e-mails sent because your open rate indicates the strength of your e-mail's identity and content apart from the strength of your deliverability.

2011, John Arnold, E-Mail Marketing For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons

(Internet marketing) A measure used by marketers as an indication of how many people "view" or "open" the electronic mail they send out.


fedpost

fedpost (third-person singular simple present fedposts, present participle fedposting, simple past and past participle fedposted)

fedposts (present singular third-person)
fedposting (participle present)
fedposted (participle past)
fedposted (past)

From fed (“a federal government officer or official”) + -post.

suf

"How do you do fellow channers? Any bombings planned for today?"
"Stfu glowie, stop fedposting".

(Internet slang, intransitive) To post violent threats on the Internet, ostensibly as an everyday citizen, but actually working as an undercover federal agent as a form of entrapment.


soft-dotted

(computing, typography) Of a character: having a dot that is removed when an accent is applied, as for example with the character i becoming í.


HPFS

(computing) Initialism of High Performance File System, a file system used by the OS/2 operating system and early versions of Windows NT.


crash to desktop

en-noun

crash to desktop (plural crashes to desktop)

Five months in the making, this latest effort goes a long way in fixing various avionics, campaign, AI, multiplayer and crash-to-desktop issues (see the patch on this month's demo disk).

c. 1999, Computer Gaming World - Volumes 181-185, Golden Empire Publications

The only force more powerful than the nuclear bunker-buster is the crash to desktop.

2008, PC Gamer, volume 15, GP Publications, page 6

You're right in the middle of a thrilling fight with the bad guy and then what happens? A crash to desktop (CTD).

2012, Michael Meyers, Mike Meyers' CompTIA A+ Guide to 802 Managing and ..., McGraw Hill Professional

(computing, software) An event where a software program running on a computer with an operating system that features a graphical desktop unexpectedly terminates without showing any error or halting of the system, and instead returns the user to the desktop.


crash to desktop

en-verb

crash to desktop (third-person singular simple present crashes to desktop, present participle crashing to desktop, simple past and past participle crashed to desktop)

crashes to desktop (present singular third-person)
crashing to desktop (participle present)
crashed to desktop (participle past)
crashed to desktop (past)

Finally, as if that wasn't punishment enough, the game crashed to desktop several times during my tests.

2007, PC Gamer, volume 14, numbers 4-6, GP Publications, page 69

Some programs, especially online games, tend to have coding problems that leave them with memory holes - in other words, they don't delete information from your PC's memory once they're finished with it, they just keep adding and adding until everything overflows. Eventually, this can cause the game to crash to desktop, but adding more memory can help prevent this.

2008, Adam Oxford, Windows Vista - Autumn 2008, Future US, →ISSN, page 67

Despite extensive planning and countless rounds of testing, we found out (much too late) to our chagrin that the game would “crash to desktop” on certain computers.

2009, Gibson, David, Baek, Young Kyun, Digital Simulations for Improving Education: Learning Through Artificial Teaching Environments: Learning Through Artificial Teaching Environments, IGI Global, page 418

(computing, software) To experience such an error.


relinker

(computing) A process that relinks something.


microassembler

(computing) An assembler that operates on microcode.


metatype

Coordinate term: metaclass

The Type suffix specifies that this variable will be a metatype and not an object (meaning the implementation class and not an instance of it).

2015, Adam Freeman, Pro Design Patterns in Swift, Apress, page 199

You can use a variable reference to a type (a metatype) to instantiate that type, but you can't just append parentheses to a variable reference: […]

2019, Matt Neuburg, iOS 13 Programming Fundamentals with Swift […], O'Reilly Media, page 186


copystrike

I uploaded a copy of the film trailer to the site, but the distributor removed it and gave me a copystrike.

copyright infringement
copyright infringement

(slang, Internet) A formal notice to a user on a website (particularly YouTube or other video-sharing site) reprimanding the user for copyright infringement.


copystrike

copystrike (third-person singular simple present copystrikes, present participle copystriking, simple past and past participle copystriked)

copystrikes (present singular third-person)
copystriking (participle present)
copystriked (participle past)
copystriked (past)

I uploaded a copy of the film trailer to the site, but the distributor removed it and copystriked me.

S-seriously? He just said that? I'm gonna copystrike this guy.

2018, Alinity, [https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/twitch-streamer-alinity-copyright-strikes-pewdiepie-for-calling-her-a-twitch-thot Twitch Streamer Alinity Copyright Strikes Pewdiepie for Calling her a Twitch Thot]

(slang, Internet) To issue a copystrike to someone or against a piece of content.


GIL

Since Asyncio is single-threaded (almost by definition), it is unaffected by the GIL, but it cannot benefit from multiple CPU cores either.

2020, Caleb Hattingh, Using Asyncio in Python, O'Reilly Media, page 7

global interpreter lock
w:global interpreter lock

(programming) Initialism of global interpreter lock.


From being a 64-bit architecture developed by AMD.

The AMD64 version of this Linux distro has higher performance than the i386 version, and doesn't suffer from the severe RAM limits imposed by 32-to-36-bit addressing.

(computing, usually attributive) The 64-bit version of the x86 instruction set architecture (as opposed to the original 16-bit x86 architecture, or to the 32-bit version of the x86 architecture, also known as IA-32, i386, or x86-32).


(computing) The original 16-bit-only version of the x86 instruction set architecture.


Initialism of Intel Architecture, 32-bit.

initialism

(computing, usually attributive) The 32-bit version of the x86 instruction set architecture (as opposed to the original 16-bit x86 architecture or its later 64-bit extension).

(metonymically) All versions of the x86 architecture that support 32-bit computing (including those also capable of 64-bit operation).


(computing) The 32-bit version of the x86 instruction set architecture.


(computing) The Intel 80386 (i386) processor.

Some Linux distros have stopped releasing i386 versions of their releases, given that practically everybody now uses devices with 64-bit-capable processors.

The 32-bit version of the x86 instruction set architecture, first used on this model of processor (earlier x86 processors used the 16-bit version of the x86 architecture).


Martian packet

From being a packet with a source or destination address that is "not of this Earth".

(computing, networking) A network packet whose declared source or destination IP address lies within a reserved address range unavailable for use on the public Internet.


geocomputational

(geography, computing) Relating to geocomputation


MVS

(computing) Abbreviation of Multiple Virtual Storage. - an IBM mainframe operating system


bitcoinization

The process of bitcoin becoming accepted as a form of currency.


hyperbitcoinization

(neologism) A major or widespread bitcoinization (process of adopting bitcoin as a form of currency).


don't @ me

A user functionality on social media services such as Twitter, wherein a user can be notified of another's post by typing their username after an @.

The Star Wars prequels were great, don't @ me.

(social media) A demand for no debate regarding a controversial statement.


SIP

w:Plane (Unicode)#Supplementary Ideographic Plane

(computing) Initialism of Supplementary Ideographic Plane, the third plane (Plane 2) in Unicode, with 65,536 codepoints (from U+20000 through U+2FFFF), mainly used for less-common CJK characters.

Supplementary Ideographic Plane

System Integrity Protection
w:System Integrity Protection

(computing, macOS) Initialism of System Integrity Protection.


MCTS

en-noun

MCTS (countable and uncountable, plural MCTSs)

The agent then executes an MCTS procedure and uses this to select the next action to take. The generated games are then used to update the network’s parameters, enabling the agent to learn.

2023 June 30, Daniel J. Mankowitz, Andrea Michi, Anton Zhernov, Marco Gelmi, Marco Selvi, “Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep reinforcement learning”, in Nature, volume 618, number 7964, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 257–263

Monte Carlo tree search
w:Monte Carlo tree search

(computer science) Initialism of Monte Carlo tree search.


(video games) Initialism of PlayStation 5.


GNU/Linux

In recent years GNU/Linux has emerged as a powerful and innovative UNIX workalike.

2003, Mark G. Sobell, A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux 8, Addison-Wesley, page 8

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.

2018, Richard Stallman, “Incorrect Quotation”, in GNU Project

The free software operating system resulting from the combination of the Linux kernel and the GNU operating system.


soft-block

en-verb

soft-block (third-person singular simple present soft-blocks, present participle soft-blocking, simple past and past participle soft-blocked)

soft-blocks (present singular third-person)
soft-blocking (participle present)
soft-blocked (participle past)
soft-blocked (past)

Coordinate term: hard-block

Softblocking is not a built-in function, but a strategy. There are a few ways of doing it, but the idea is to create a sort of inverted mute.

2019 November 11, Brian Feldman, “How to Block, Mute, and Avoid Your Enemies Online”, in New York—Intelligencer

(Internet, transitive) To block (a user) on social media and then immediately unblock them, so that the user will (perhaps unknowingly) no longer follow or engage with the blocking user's posts.


soft-block

Coordinate term: hard-block

Where a mute hides someone else’s posts from you, a softblock hides your posts from someone else, without completely blocking them. It’s less like building a wall and more like cutting a string.

And just last week, I gave my partner the silent treatment for not answering me after five minutes. On social media, all I seem to do is hard-block people left and right, foregoing the soft-block altogether. If I’m not doing that, I leave rude comments with super sassy emojis or direct message my friends with passive-aggressive cat GIFs.

2022 October 27, Paloma Torres, quoting Potentially Petty/Hot Person, “Advice Column: Am I becoming hotter or just pettier? Paloma Torres answers the age-old question constantly on everyone's minds”, in The Eyeopener, volume 56, number 7, page 3


dockerize

dockerize (third-person singular simple present dockerizes, present participle dockerizing, simple past and past participle dockerized)

dockerizes (present singular third-person)
dockerizing (participle present)
dockerized (participle past)
dockerized (past)

Coordinate term: containerize

(computing) To package software by means of the Docker platform.


dockerized

(computing) packaged by means of the Docker platform


antidebugger

To understand how, and why, such antidebugger techniques work, it is necessary to have a closer look at how debuggers function.

1996, Rune Skardhamar, Virus: Detection and Elimination, page 178

Antidebugger techniques are particularly effective when combined with code encryption because encrypting the program forces reversers to run it inside a debugger in order to allow the program to decrypt itself.

2011, Eldad Eilam, Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering

(computing) Preventing or inhibiting the use of a debugger.


SPUA

(computing) Initialism of Supplementary Private Use Area (either of the two Unicode planes (15 and 16) reserved for private use).


SPUA-B

(computing) Initialism of Supplementary Private Use Area-B (plane 16 of Unicode, containing the 65,536 code points from U+100000 through U+10FFFF).

Supplementary Private Use Area-B

(computing, by extension) Initialism of Supplementary Private Use Area-B (the sole block in Unicode plane 16, covering the entirety of the plane).


SPUA-A

(computing) Initialism of Supplementary Private Use Area-A (plane 15 of Unicode, containing the 65,536 code points from U+F0000 through U+FFFFF).

Supplementary Private Use Area-A

(computing, by extension) Initialism of Supplementary Private Use Area-A (the sole block in Unicode plane 15, covering the entirety of the plane).


supplementary plane

en-noun

supplementary plane (plural supplementary planes)

(computing) Any of the 16 Unicode planes located above Plane 0 (the BMP) and requiring the use of surrogate pairs to encode in UTF-16 (Planes 1 through 16, collectively covering the range of code points from U+10000 through U+10FFFF).


SEE

ionizing radiation
ionizing radiation#English

(computing) Initialism of single-event effect (a temporary or permanent fault caused by an ionizing radiation particle or ray striking a computer chip).


hard error

(electronics, computing) A type of error which persists even after power-cycling the equipment; associated with permanent physical damage to the equipment's hardware (for instance, from a latch-up).


power-cycle

en-verb

power-cycle (third-person singular simple present power-cycles, present participle power-cycling, simple past and past participle power-cycled)

power-cycles (present singular third-person)
power-cycling (participle present)
power-cycled (participle past)
power-cycled (past)

If the computer's frozen, try power-cycling it.

(electronics, computing) To turn a device off and then back on again, usually to restore proper function by forcing a malfunctioning or unresponsive device to reset or reinitialize, or as a step in troubleshooting the device.


firm error

(electronics, computing) A type of error where a signal or datum becomes wrong and stays wrong until the equipment is power-cycled, but does not physically damage the equipment's hardware.


SEL

en-noun

SEL (countable and uncountable, plural SELs)

(computing) Initialism of single-event latchup (a destructive internal short circuit produced by a particle of ionizing radiation striking a CMOS computer chip).


CI/CD

Initialism of continuous integration / continuous delivery or continuous deployment.

initialism

In this chapter, we aim to extend the reach of CI/CD pipelines into common automation use cases.

2023, Christopher Cowell, Nicholas Lotz, Chris Timberlake, Automating DevOps with GitLab CI/CD Pipelines: Build efficient CI/CD pipelines to verify, secure, and deploy your code using real-life examples, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 253

continuous integration
continuous integration

continuous deployment
continuous deployment

(software engineering) Combined practices of continuous integration and continuous delivery or continuous deployment.


shotgun surgery

(computing, slang) The antipattern of adding similar or identical source code in multiple parts of a software project, rather than implementing the desired functionality in a single place to make it reusable.


n-tier

From n (“arbitrary natural number”) + tier (“range, layer”).

compound

(software engineering) Synonym of multitier.


MMX

(computing) Initialism of Matrix Math eXtensions, an extension to the x86 CPU instruction set architecture.


JMAP

JSON Meta Application Protocol
w:JSON Meta Application Protocol

(Internet) Initialism of JSON Meta Application Protocol.


trinarization

(computing) Conversion of a tree to one with at most three children per node


worldlet

(Internet, historical) A three-dimensional fragment of a virtual world used as a landmark for wayfinding.


hack-and-slay

It is usually the 'hack-and-slay' gaming that is publicly discussed, the rapid killing of monsters for a quick rise in levels.

2009, Elke Hemminger, The Mergence of Spaces, page 47

(roleplaying games, video games, informal) Synonym of hack-and-slash


gravity gun

first-person shooter
first-person shooter

(video games) A device in video games, particularly first-person shooters, with which players can directly manipulate objects in the virtual world, often allowing them to be used as projectiles.


troll farm

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

These are some of the hallmarks of a so-called troll farm — a physical location where a collective of operators share computers and phones to jointly manage a pool of fake accounts as part of an influence operation.

2021 March 31, Facebook March 2021 Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Report

Troll farms — professionalized groups that work in a coordinated fashion to post provocative content, often propaganda, to social networks— were still building massive audiences by running networks of Facebook pages.

2021 September 16, Karen Hao, “Troll farms reached 140 million Americans a month on Facebook before 2020 election, internal report shows”, in MIT Technology Review, retrieved 2021-09-17

Rally Forge ... established a domestic 'troll farm' in Phoenix, Arizona, that employed teenagers to churn out pro-Trump social media posts, some of which cast doubt on the integrity of the US election system or falsely charged Democrats with attempting to steal the election.

2021 June 11, Julia Wong, “Revealed: rightwing firm posed as leftist group on Facebook to divide Democrats”, in The Guardian, retrieved 2021-09-26

(Internet) A group of Internet trolls organized in order to interfere in political opinions and decision-making.

trollitehdas

a group of Internet trolls organized in order to interfere in political opinions


SSRF

(computing, networking) Initialism of server-side request forgery.


swarm intelligence

en-noun

swarm intelligence (countable and uncountable, plural swarm intelligences)

Introduced by Gerardo Beni and Jing Wang in 1989, in the context of cellular robotic systems.

(artificial intelligence) The collective behavior of decentralized, self-organized systems, whether natural or artificial.


developer exit

(video games) A hidden exit or shortcut that a video game developer places in a level of a platform game that allows the player to effortlessly or more easily reach the goal.


pseudoheader

(Internet) A simplified header used in the TCP and UDP protocols in order to calculate a checksum.


C-string

We also said that C-strings are null terminated, so the C-string "Hello" has six characters even though only five are enclosed in double quotation marks.

2017, D. S. Malik, C++ Programming: From Problem Analysis to Program Design, Cengage Learning, page 556


crypto wallet

That's it, although it is a bit harder to memorize your crypto wallet credentials, as your public address will be 25–36 characters and your private key can be up to 50 characters or, in some cases, 20 different words in a set order.

2018, Siam Kidd, The Crypto Book: How to Invest Safely in Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies, Hachette UK

cryptocurrency wallet
cryptocurrency wallet#English


cryptocurrency wallet

cryptocurrency wallet (plural cryptocurrency wallets)

But now that you're using the most advanced, futuristic form of money (cryptos, baby!), you're gonna need a brand-new type of wallet to go with it: a cryptocurrency wallet. With a cryptocurrency wallet, you can not only store the value of your digital money but also send an receive currencies.

2019, Kiana Danial, Cryptocurrency Investing For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, page 95

(cryptocurrencies, finance) A device, program or a service which stores the public or private keys for cryptocurrency transactions.

kryptovaluuttalompakko

virtual wallet for holding cryptocurrency


proof of stake

Coordinate term: proof of work

The purest form of proof of stake is simply to make mining easier for those who can show they control a large amount of currency.

2016, Arvind Narayanan, Joseph Bonneau, Edward Felten, Andrew Miller, Steven Goldfeder, Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction, Princeton University Press, page 209

(cryptocurrencies) A process for transaction verification on a blockchain which does not require energy-intensive mining.


ECDSA

w:Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm

Initialism of Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm.


KDF

Kenya Defence Forces
w:Kenya Defence Forces

(Kenya, military) Initialism of Kenya Defence Forces


digital signature

digital signature (plural digital signatures)

We define an electronic coin as a chain of digital signatures. Each owner transfers the coin to the next by digitally signing a hash of the previous transaction and the public key of the next owner and adding these to the end of the coin.

2008, Satoshi Nakamoto, “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)

A signature within a mathematical scheme for verifying the authenticity of digital messages or documents.


TUFU

(networking) Initialism of trust upon first use.


(Internet) A second and more compact iteration of the WOFF file format.


unpremultiplication

(computer graphics) The process of unpremultiplying.


(video games) Initialism of Electronic Entertainment Expo (trade event for the video game industry).


USB Type B

(computing) A type of USB connection with a squarish plug and socket, typically used to connect a printer or scanner to a computer.


USB Type A

(computing) A type of USB connection that has a rectangular plug and socket.


USB-C

(trademark) Alternative form of USB Type-C.


USB Type-C

Chinese: Type C

(trademark) A type of USB with 24 pins, and close to an ovoid in shape.


TLOZ

The Legend of Zelda
w:The Legend of Zelda

(video games, slang) Initialism of The Legend of Zelda.


BOTW

Audio (US)

(video games, slang) Initialism of Breath of the Wild, short for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.


PSVR

(video games) Initialism of PlayStation VR.


Super Mario Galaxy 2
w:Super Mario Galaxy 2

(video games) Initialism of Super Mario Galaxy 2.


NSMBW

New Super Mario Bros. Wii
w:New Super Mario Bros. Wii

(video games) Initialism of New Super Mario Bros. Wii.


(video games) Initialism of Mario Kart 64.


NSMB

New Super Mario Bros
w:New Super Mario Bros

(video games) Initialism of New Super Mario Bros.


New Super Mario Bros. 2
w:New Super Mario Bros. 2

(video games) Initialism of New Super Mario Bros. 2.


MKDD

Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
w:Mario Kart: Double Dash!!

(video games) Initialism of Mario Kart: Double Dash!!.


The two games, collectively, are the fourth iteration in the Super Smash Bros. series.

(video games) (collective) Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS.


SSBB

Super Smash Bros. Brawl
w:Super Smash Bros. Brawl

(video games) Initialism of Super Smash Bros. Brawl.


Super Smash Bros. (video game)
w:Super Smash Bros. (video game)

(video games) Initialism of Super Smash Bros. (video game). on the N64.


SSBU

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
w:Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

(video games) Initialism of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.


MKWii

(video games) Initialism of Mario Kart Wii.


LOZ

(video games) Initialism of The Legend of Zelda.


Super Smash Bros. for 3DS
w:Super Smash Bros. for 3DS

(video games) Initialism of Super Smash Bros. for 3DS.


ALTTP

(video games) Initialism of A Link To The Past.


ALBW

A Link Between Worlds
w:A Link Between Worlds

(video games) Initialism of A Link Between Worlds.


NSMBU

New Super Mario Bros. U
w:New Super Mario Bros. U

(video games) Initialism of New Super Mario Bros. U.


SML2: 6GC

Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
w:Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins

(video games) Initialism of Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins.


Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
w:Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

(video games) Initialism of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.


DKCTF

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
w:Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze

(video games) Initialism of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze.


Super Smash Bros. 4

Collectively, these games are the fourth entry in the Super Smash Bros. series.

(video games) Both Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS.


stream snipe

en-verb

stream snipe (third-person singular simple present stream snipes, present participle stream sniping, simple past and past participle stream sniped)

stream snipes (present singular third-person)
stream sniping (participle present)
stream sniped (participle past)
stream sniped (past)

It is typically frowned upon to stream snipe another person.

Chat, I'm blocking the screen so you don't stream snipe me.

(video games, Internet slang, Twitch-speak) To watch another person play a multiplayer game on a live stream, and to use the knowledge gained from watching the broadcast to gain an unfair in-game advantage over the streamer or to disrupt the streamer's gameplay.


NSO

Nintendo Switch Online
w:Nintendo Switch Online

(video games, Internet) Initialism of Nintendo Switch Online.


IPFS

InterPlanetary File System
w:InterPlanetary File System

(networking) Initialism of InterPlanetary File System.


MKDS

(video games) Initialism of Mario Kart DS.


Super Mario 3D World
w:Super Mario 3D World

(video games) Initialism of Super Mario 3D World.


HKU

(computing, Microsoft Windows) Abbreviation of HKEY_USERS, part of the registry containing settings for each user profile loaded on the machine.


MKSC

Mario Kart Super Circuit
w:Mario Kart Super Circuit

(video games) Initialism of Mario Kart Super Circuit.


(video games) Initialism of Mario Kart 8.


SMK

(video games) Initialism of Super Mario Kart.


distributed ledger

en-noun

distributed ledger (plural distributed ledgers)

Another distributed ledger platform, called Ethereum, works off the same technology that Bitcoin does, but it is run as an open-source software project, meaning the software code is freely available for anyone to work on.

2016 April 6, Quentin Hardy, “Ripple Aims to Put Every Transaction on One Ledger”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

As mentioned, a blockchain is a distributed ledger of transactions implemented as data batched into blocks that use cryptographic validation to link the blocks together.

2018, Joseph J. Bambara et al., Blockchain: A Practical Guide to Developing Business, Law, and Technology Solutions, McGraw Hill Professional, page 6

A consensus of replicated, shared, and synchronized digital data geographically spread across multiple locations.


back-seat game

en-verb

back-seat game (third-person singular simple present back-seat games, present participle back-seat gaming, simple past and past participle back-seat gamed)

back-seat games (present singular third-person)
back-seat gaming (participle present)
back-seat gamed (participle past)
back-seat gamed (past)

(video games) To commentate excessively on the in-game decisions and actions of someone playing a video game, whilst not playing the game.


meshlet

(computer graphics) A subset of a polygon mesh.


CGJ

combining grapheme joiner
w:combining grapheme joiner

(computing, typography) Initialism of combining grapheme joiner.


Armstrong's axioms

Developed by William W. Armstrong in a 1974 paper.

functional dependencies
functional dependency

(databases) A set of references (or, more precisely, inference rules) used to infer all the functional dependencies on a relational database.


front-end processor

en-noun

front-end processor (plural front-end processors)

(computing) A small computer that interfaces with the host computer and handles operations such as network access or peripheral control.


Wolfram code

Introduced by Stephen Wolfram in a 1983 paper.

The rule runs its own randomizer, using Wolfram code 30.

1990 April 29, Rudy Rucker, “vants and wator, calab, long message”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

A code used to describe one-dimensional cellular automaton rules, based on a mapping of cell states to a digit sequence.


counting sort

(computing) A sorting algorithm that counts how many times each integer key appears in an array and then reorders the array based on those counts.


Trademark of AMD, reflecting its potential for performance improvements with applications heavy in 3D graphics.

(computing) An enhancement of the MMX extension to the x86 CPU instruction set architecture, allowing for enhanced performance with 3D-graphics-heavy applications; rendered obsolescent by later versions of the SSE instruction-set extensions.


(video games) Initialism of Sonic 3 & Knuckles.


Named after the product designations of the coprocessors used to provide floating-point support on early x86 systems lacking hardware support for these instructions in the main processor: the 8087 (for the 8086/8088 CPU), 80287 (for the 80286 CPU), 80387 (for the 80386 CPU), and 80487SX (for the 80486SX CPU). The 80486DX CPU and later integrated the floating-point hardware into the main processor, but the name continued in use for this set of instructions. The x serves as a wildcard.

(computing) An extension to the x86 CPU instruction set architecture, providing direct hardware support for advanced floating-point arithmetic operations (rather than requiring them to be emulated in software).


(computing) Initialism of Streaming SIMD Extensions 2, an extension to the x86 CPU instruction set architecture building off the earlier SSE and intended to completely replace the older MMX and 3DNow! extensions.


self-attention

(machine learning) A form of attention (prioritization technique in neural networks) where the data being examined, rather than some additional input, is used to determine what to focus on.


threadly

From thread + -ly, on the model of weekly, monthly, etc.

a threadly reminder

(Internet, informal) Occurring on every thread of discussion.


(video games) Initialism of Sonic Adventure 2.


anti-MLM

en-adj

anti-MLM (comparative more anti-MLM, superlative most anti-MLM)

more anti-MLM (comparative)
most anti-MLM (superlative)

(Internet) Opposing or opposed to MLMs and their practices.


ctrl-c

en-verb

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

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

ctrl + c
* Derived from the shortcut of simultaneously pressing the "ctrl" key and the "c" key, to copy something to one's clipboard on a computer.

(Internet, technology) to copy, to save to one's clipboard.


ctrl-v

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

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

ctrl + v
* Derived from the shortcut of pressing the "ctrl" and "v" buttons at the same time to paste something.

(computing) to paste, usually from a clipboard that was previously saved via ctrl-c.


pay to win

en-adj

pay to win (comparative more pay to win, superlative most pay to win)

more pay to win (comparative)
most pay to win (superlative)

Concerns about pay-to-win dynamics are laced through core games, as the default norm is that superior players should win battles contested on a level playing field.

2020, Christopher A. Paul, Free-to-Play: Mobile Video Games, Bias, and Norms, MIT Press, page 59

Admittedly, the loot boxes first of all monetize video games, by reinforcing the pay-to-win logic, but they also contribute to their gamblification (Johnson 2018), […]

2021, Stéphane Le Lay, Emmanuelle Savignac, Jean Frances, Pierre Lénel, editors, The Gamification of Society, volume 2, John Wiley & Sons, page 107

(video games) Designed in such a way as to allow players to exchange real-world currency for in-game benefits.


pay to win

(video games) The ability and/or practice of exchanging real-world currency for an in-game benefit.


content creator

en-noun

content creator (plural content creators)

(social media) One who creates social media content, especially of a monetizable nature.


MLMer

multi-level marketer
multi-level marketer#English

(Internet) Abbreviation of multi-level marketer.; one who is involved in an MLM.


Metroid-like

en-adj

Metroid-like (comparative more Metroid-like, superlative most Metroid-like)

more Metroid-like (comparative)
most Metroid-like (superlative)

(video games) Similar in gameplay or atmosphere to the Metroid series.


Mariolike

Mariolike (comparative more Mariolike, superlative most Mariolike)

more Mariolike (comparative)
most Mariolike (superlative)

(video games) Similar to Mario and his series, in tone, gameplay, or other aspects.


ragdoll physics

(computer graphics, video games) Physics based around ragdolls (models consisting of a set of connected rigid bodies that can collapse in a loose, natural manner).


Zelda-like

Zelda-like or Zelda-like (sense 2) (comparative more Zelda-like, superlative most Zelda-like)

Zelda-like (canonical)
more Zelda-like (comparative)
most Zelda-like (superlative)

The Tale Of Poporokuroisu – a Zelda-like RPG with great characterisation (SCE)

At its heart, “Legacy of Goku” combines RPG and action elements to form a very Zelda-like feeling, but with the addition of experience points.

2003, Pojo’s Unofficial Dragon Ball Z: The Complete Player and Collector’s Guide to Every Card and Character, Triumph Books, page 46

Eventually I ended up finding how to enter a cave and completed a Zelda-like dungeon “level” to rescue the dog.

2010, José P. Zagal, quoting Timothy, Ludoliteracy: Defining, Understanding, and Supporting Games Education, ETC Press, pages 84–85

Anyway, if you’re looking for a Zelda-like adventure for your machine you won’t go far wrong with Golvellius 2.

2011, Classic Videogame Hardware Genius Guide, Imagine Publishing

He [Hidemaro Fujibayashi] steers away from game play that doesn’t feel “Zelda-like,” instead asking how that game play can provide a fresh perspective on the familiar and beloved world of Hyrule.

2018, The Legend of Zelda: Encyclopedia, Dark Horse Books

Faria[: A World of Mystery and Danger!] borrows elements from numerous games: although the town exploration and random battle encounters are similar to traditional RPGs like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, these battles are Zelda-like real-time fights.

2019, Chris Scullion, The NES Encyclopedia: Every Game Released for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Pen and Sword WHITE OWL, page 73

[Koji] Kondo may be making such compositional choices deliberately, or he might simply be writing music that he thinks is ‘Zelda-like’ in style, which manifests as these motivic echoes.

2021, Tim Summers, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: A Game Music Companion, Intellect

A Zelda-like Quest to Fight an Unbeatable Foe

2021, Mark Leslie, Fear and Longing in Los Angeles: A Canadian Werewolf Novel, Stark Publishing

[…] it wasn’t the first game to really combine roguelike elements such as perma-death and random generation with another genre (in this case, a Zelda-like dungeon crawl), but it was by far the one that captured the most attention.

2021, Patrick Hickey, Jr., quoting Joe Mirabello, The Minds Behind Shooter Games: Interviews with Cult and Classic Video Game Developers (Studies in Gaming), Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, page 146

Much like his appearance, sonic cues associated with Xandir [P. Whifflebottom] clearly stem from well-known video games: There are Mario-esque leaping sounds, Sonic [the Hedgehog]-like metallic arpeggios, and in a direct nod to The Legend of Zelda (and tangentially to Super Mario Bros. 3), a recorder that whisks Xandir away from danger. Yet these cues are often used in comedic fashion outside of the contexts with which those sounds would have been associated in the original games. The Zelda-like recorder, for example, creates a tornado that, in carrying Xandir away, also destroys a trailer park.

2023, Karen M. Cook, “Xandir P. Whifflebottom, Video Game … Hero?”, in Lisa Scoggin, Dana Plank, editors, The Intersection of Animation, Video Games, and Music: Making Movement Sing (Routledge Research in Music Series), Routledge, page 80

(video games) Having similar characteristics such as atmosphere and gameplay to the Legend of Zelda series.


webisodic

How do you make money from a webisodic? The business model for online entertainment remained elusive.

1999, John Geirland, Eva Sonesh Kedar, Digital Babylon, page 91

Many developers placed their hopes on a form called the webisodic, a story-based serial told in short installments using stills, text, animation, or video. The first such webisodic, The Spot, debuted in 1995 and was an enormous hit at the time.

2004, Carolyn Handler Miller, Digital Storytelling

(Internet) A website offering an unfolding story in the form of blog posts, images, short videos, etc. posted at intervals.


Xlet

From X + -let, modelled on applet, with X representing an unknown (since it was intended to support further platforms beyond digital television).

(computing) A kind of Java applet used for digital television features.


GDAL

(software) Initialism of Geospatial Data Abstraction Library. (a computer software library for reading and writing raster and vector geospatial data formats.)


FNV

Fowler–Noll–Vo hash function
w:Fowler–Noll–Vo hash function

(computing theory) Initialism of Fowler–Noll–Vo hash function.


Symbian

(computing, mobile telephony) A discontinued mobile operating system originally developed by the Symbian Ltd. consortium and later by Symbian Foundation, Nokia and Accenture.


G-buffer

(computer graphics) A screen space representation of geometry and material information, generated by an intermediate rendering pass in deferred shading rendering pipelines.


cryptolocker

Normally using a phishing attack, the attacker delivers cryptographic malware, such as a cryptolocker, that encrypts the victim's information […]

2015, Sally Ernst, GOTCHA!: Your Little Black Book to a Safer E-xperience

Both a secure bastion and a cryptolocker were made up for this question, although cryptolocker itself is a type of malware.

2020, Mike Chapple, David Seidl, CompTIA CySA+ Practice Tests: Exam CS0-002, page 392

(computer security) A form of ransomware that encrypts the victim's files and extorts money for the secret key required to decrypt them.


community manager

en-noun

community manager (plural community managers)

(video games, business) A person whose job is to be a liaison between a video game's developers and that video game's community.


unspoiler

en-verb

unspoiler (third-person singular simple present unspoilers, present participle unspoilering, simple past and past participle unspoilered)

unspoilers (present singular third-person)
unspoilering (participle present)
unspoilered (participle past)
unspoilered (past)

Don't unspoiler the message until I tell you to.

(Internet, transitive) To bypass the spoiler warning on (a message) so as to view the contents.


zero-length

a zero-length array; a zero-length string

(programming) Having a length of zero; containing no elements, text characters, etc.


stringifier

(computing) A process or algorithm that stringifies.


flippy-floppy

Double density and “flippy-floppies” are also on the horizon. A flippy-floppy allows data recording on both sides; regular floppies can use only one.

1975, Computer Decisions, volume 7, page 30

(computing, dated) A two-sided floppy disk; a flippy disk.


Initialism of Intel Architecture, 64-bit.

initialism

(computing) An EPIC 64-bit instruction set architecture designed to allow relatively simple, cheap CPUs to execute many 64-bit instructions simultaneously and with potentially very high performance; developed by Intel in the late 1990s with the intent of replacing the older x86 architecture, but was delayed and proved uncompetitive with x86 (especially x86-64), seeing use only in Intel's own Itanium line of high-end CPUs.


desuicide

en-verb

desuicide (third-person singular simple present desuicides, present participle desuiciding, simple past and past participle desuicided)

desuicides (present singular third-person)
desuiciding (participle present)
desuicided (participle past)
desuicided (past)

(video games, transitive, informal) To modify (a protected, encrypted arcade game board) so that it will no longer automatically destroy its own code if tampering is detected.


USUM

Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon
w:Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon.


DPPt

From the initials of Diamond, Pearl and Pt, the chemical symbol for Platinum.

Pokémon Diamond, Pearl
w:Pokémon Diamond and Pearl

(fandom slang) Abbreviation of Pokémon Diamond, Pearl and Platinum.


SuMo

Pokémon Sun and Moon
w:Pokémon Sun and Moon

(fandom slang) Abbreviation of Pokémon Sun and Moon.


LGPE

w:Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!.


Pokémon Black 2 and White 2
w:Pokémon Black 2 and White 2

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Black 2 and White 2.


SwSh

Pokémon Sword and Shield
w:Pokémon Sword and Shield

(fandom slang) Abbreviation of Pokémon Sword and Shield.


PoGo

(fandom slang) Abbreviation of Pokémon Go.


SaaSS

(computing, sales management) Acronym of software as a self-service.

(computing, derogatory, free software jargon) Acronym of service as a software substitute.


RAIM

en-noun

RAIM (countable and uncountable, plural RAIMs)

redundant array of independent memory
w:redundant array of independent memory

(computing) Initialism of redundant array of independent memory.


WOM

write-only memory
write-only memory#English

(computing) Initialism of write-only memory.


write-only memory

write-only memory (usually uncountable, plural write-only memories)

write-only memory (engineering)
write-only memory (joke)

(computing) A type of computer memory to which data can be written, but from which it cannot be read.

(informal) A failed or otherwise inoperative memory device.


PPU

physics processing unit
w:physics processing unit

(computer hardware) Initialism of physics processing unit, a dedicated microprocessor designed to handle the calculations of physics.

physics processing unit

parallel processing unit
parallel processing unit#English

(computing) Initialism of parallel processing unit.


graphics processing unit

graphics processing unit (plural graphics processing units)

(computer hardware) A specialized electronic circuit designed to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device.


blind-copy

en-verb

blind-copy (third-person singular simple present blind-copies, present participle blind-copying, simple past and past participle blind-copied)

blind-copies (present singular third-person)
blind-copying (participle present)
blind-copied (participle past)
blind-copied (past)

(Internet, transitive) To send a blind carbon copy to (a person).

(Internet, transitive) To send a blind carbon copy of (a message) to somebody.


federated learning

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(artificial intelligence) A machine learning technique that trains an algorithm across multiple decentralized edge devices or servers holding local data samples, without exchanging them.


cutter and paster

en-noun

cutter and paster (plural cutters and pasters)

Zack is a keen cutter and paster; he likes grabbing headlines from political and entertainment sites and posting them on his page.

(informal, computing) Anyone who copies text from one source and pastes it to another, using a computer.


triclustering

(mathematics, computing) The simultaneous clustering of three independent rows or columns of a three-dimensional matrix


Zatocoding

Brand name of the Zator Company (founded in 1947).

(computing, historical) A hash code technique used in some punch card systems.


peekaboo card

(computing, historical) A kind of punch card that could be used to find records matching several categories by aligning cards for the records and retaining those where a hole could be seen all the way through the stack of cards.


RIMM

(computer hardware) Initialism of Rambus in-line memory module.


caselessly

[…] even though the original capturing subpattern is matched caselessly.

2001, Philip Hazel, Exim: The Mail Transfer Agent, page 562

(computing) In a case-insensitive manner.


dew computing

(computing) Cloud computing by means of a personal computer, mobile phone, etc.


ASF

Advanced Systems Format
w:Advanced Systems Format

(software, Internet, multimedia) Initialism of Advanced Systems Format (a multimedia format for streaming media across the internet, formerly Active/Advanced Streaming Format)

Advanced Systems Format

Apache Software Foundation
w:The Apache Software Foundation

(software) Initialism of Apache Software Foundation.


ASF

ASF (countable and uncountable, plural ASFs)

(file format, countable) A file or stream using Advanced Systems Format


online dating

→ German: Onlinedating

In the digital age, everything must at some point be reduced to this basic construct of choice: One or zero. Yes or no. On or off. Subscribers to online dating sites are forced to come up with a list of their desires. Red hair? Yes or no. Over 30 O.K.? Please check a box.

2010 February 11, Scott James, “In the Calculations of Online Dating, Love Can Be Cruel”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Dating over the Internet, typically using a website or app to find potential connections.


twitch gameplay

(video games) A type of video game gameplay that requires fast reactions.


pseudocell

(biology, computing) A pseudospatial cell


PRAM

Coordinate term: RAM

(computer science) Acronym of parallel random-access machine.


obby

obby (countable and uncountable, plural obbies)

This obby is going to be a dungeon-style theme. Players will have to run down long corridors, avoid traps, make death-defying leaps, and run along cobblestone mazes.

2019, Heath Haskins, The Advanced Roblox Coding Book: An Unofficial Guide, page 167

Obstacle courses are very popular on Roblox. These games are usually called "obby" by Roblox players. In an average obby, you might need to jump across tiny platforms. Or slide down a twisting slope. Or both at once! An obby usually starts out easy and gets tougher as it goes.

2020, Josh Gregory, Games and Genres in Roblox, page 9

Obstacle games can have potential for massive visits if it is a great obby.

The saga continues for Liz as she faces one obby after another.

2021, Sara Coleman, 101 Unofficial Roblox Story Starters, page 20

(countable, Roblox) Clipping of obstacle course.

With a newly "looted" obby shield and a fresh Verac Plateskirt in inventory I decided to teleport to closest bank and have a break from the game.

2015, Sean Mintz, Computer Games: The Complete Guide to Computer Games Learning

I reckon Runescape is the game that introduced my young, ignorant, and stubborn self to modern RPGs. In a way, I owe at least part of how my career has shaped up to trimmed rune and obby capes.

2021 January 4, Cian Maher, “Runescape Is 20 Years Old Today - Here's How I Started A Pyramid Scheme When I Was Nine”, in TheGamer, archived from the original on 2022-06-19

Oh yeah? I'll say, lying down and closing my eyes beside them while they talk to me about mooshrooms and obby swords. Tell me more.

2021 May 6, Kate Baer, “12 Moms on Their Secret Strengths”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2022-05-06

(uncountable, RuneScape, Minecraft) Clipping of obsidian.


deconfirmation

(fandom slang, video games) A confirmation of a character's lack of playable status.


deconfirm

en-verb

deconfirm (third-person singular simple present deconfirms, present participle deconfirming, simple past and past participle deconfirmed)

deconfirms (present singular third-person)
deconfirming (participle present)
deconfirmed (participle past)
deconfirmed (past)

(fandom slang, video games) To confirm a character's lack of playable status.


checkerboard rendering

Figure 6: Checkerboard rendering using two different screen space surface splatting algorithms.

2003, Thomas Ertl, Vision, Modeling, and Visualization 2003: Proceedings, page 491

(computer graphics) A rasterization optimization technique where on every pass only a part of the final resolution is rendered (sometimes in a checkerboard pattern) to then be interpolated (spatially and/or temporally), usually in order to increase performance.


optical trackpad

en-noun

optical trackpad (plural optical trackpads)

An input device consisting of a small surface with an optical sensor, integrated for some smartphones and subnotebooks.


TRBL

(computing, Internet, Cascading Style Sheets, mnemonic) Acronym of top, right, bottom, left, the order in which the sides of elements are defined.


Hyrule

First use appears in 1986 with the release of The Legend of Zelda.

... Hyrule was ruled by Princess Zelda, who used the magic of her Triforce triangles to help her people.

1989, Art Ellis, Kim Ellis (illustrators), The Legend of Zelda - Molblin's Magic Spear

The scenery of Hyrule includes roads, water, mountains, plains, deserts, graveyards, forests, swamps, bridges, caves, towns, and, of course, the Palaces.

1990, Donald R. McCrary, Conquering Zelda - The Unauthorized Guide, page 81

Also included is a fold-out map that shows the layout of the land of Hyrule, describes some of the creatures you'll meet and the weapons you can obtain, and offers still more playing tips.

1991, Steven A. Schwartz, The Big Book of Nintendo Games, page 182

Hyrule's large bodies of water have several whirlpools.

2002, Bryan Stratton, Stephen Stratton, The Legend of Zelda, A Link to the Past: Prima's Official Strategy Guide, page 172

(video games) The kingdom that serves as the iconic setting for a majority of the games in the Legend of Zelda series.


attack page

Under Wikipedia policy, users who create attack pages are likely to be blocked from editing.

This web page at mybank.com has been reported as an attack page and has been blocked […]

2013, Andrew A. Adams, Michael Brenner, Matthew Smith, Financial Cryptography and Data Security, page 110

There was also an attack page about the IRS and illegal immigration along the borders.

2017, Harry Hurst, John Carter: Soldier, Business Tycoon, Politician

(Internet) A web page created for the purpose of attacking a person or group, either through hateful content or through hacking or other technological measures.


tone indicator

For one thing, it helps to shed light on the nature of the question mark and the exclamation point – the "tone indicators" – which I have not considered up to here.

1990, Geoffrey Nunberg, chapter 5, in The Linguistics of Punctuation, Cambridge University Press, page 65

But what tone indicators lack in artfulness, they make up for in their bulletproof inability to be misinterpreted.

2020 December 9, Ezra Marcus, “Tone Is Hard to Grasp Online. Can Tone Indicators Help?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2021-07-04

(linguistics, chiefly Internet) A symbol conveying the tone or context of a message, often over the internet.


Universal 2nd Factor
w:Universal 2nd Factor

(computer security) Initialism of Universal 2nd Factor, a standard to strengthen and simplify two-factor authentication (2FA).


Sony pony

(slang, derogatory, video games) A slavish supporter of Sony's video games or consoles; a Sony fanboy


timestomp

en-verb

timestomp (third-person singular simple present timestomps, present participle timestomping, simple past and past participle timestomped)

timestomps (present singular third-person)
timestomping (participle present)
timestomped (participle past)
timestomped (past)

(computing, slang) To modify a timestamp (for example the time when a file was accessed) so as to obfuscate the details of one's activity on a system.


jump server

(computing) A hardened device on a network that spans two dissimilar security zones and provides a controlled means of access between them.


cyberflashing

For years, the Law Commission has been advising the government to plug this gap in legislation – a chasm between how we punish real-world behaviours and the same behaviour online – by introducing a specific cyber-flashing offence.

2023 April 19, Sophie Gallagher, “Cyber-flashing is just as damaging as the ‘real world’ equivalent. When will the law catch up?”, in The Guardian

(computing, crime) The unsolicited sending of sexually explicit pictures of oneself to another person by means of a computer or telecommunication network.


roflstomp

roflstomp (third-person singular simple present roflstomps, present participle roflstomping, simple past and past participle roflstomped)

roflstomps (present singular third-person)
roflstomping (participle present)
roflstomped (participle past)
roflstomped (past)

Sure, it seemed like we had the Vikings outclassed right now, but I'd seen way too many battles where Goliath gets roflstomped by an enterprising David.

(video games, slang) To defeat (an opponent) easily and decisively; to trounce.


roflstomp

(video games, slang) An easy and decisive defeat.


poison queue

(computing) A special message queue into which poison messages are diverted, to prevent them from blocking the system.


poison message

When there is only a single consumer, a poison message can completely block processing of the queue.

2011, Neil Mackenzie, Microsoft Windows Azure Development Cookbook

(computing) A message that causes processing to fail, and thus remains in the message queue and prevents processing of further messages.


RBAR

Coined by database administrator Jeff Moden.

coinage

All of these methods either employ (what I call) "RBAR" programming (pronounced as "ree-bar" and stands for "Row By Agonizing Row") […]]

[2005 January 10, Jeff Moden, “Calculating Work Days”, in SQLServerCentral, Simple Talk Publishing, archived from the original on 2007-10-23

RBAR is a consequence of coding in a strictly procedural way, rather than in a set-based way. It is different from poor coding; it is the result of adopting a mindset that one always has to tell the computer, step by step […]

2007 July 26, Remi Gregoire, “RBAR: ‘Row By Agonizing Row’”, in Redgate, retrieved 2021-07-19

While RBAR used over twice as much log as the set based operations, the log used per transaction was less than half.

2019 December 9, Randy Knight, “Rethinking RBAR”, in SQL Solutions Group

(database administration, derogatory) Initialism of row by agonizing row; used to describe procedural programming in SQL.


mobile data

Yet O2 says that while it has doubled the number of iPhone users, mobile data use is doubling every 4 months, equivalent to an eightfold growth every year.

2010 June 11, Charles Arthur, “Why file-sharing has killed 'unlimited' mobile data contracts”, in The Guardian

The analysis of mobile data plans in 230 countries revealed that the UK ranked a “disappointing” 136th when the cost of one gigabyte (1GB) of mobile data was looked at.

2019 March 5, Rupert Jones, “UK among countries with priciest mobile data plans in Europe”, in The Guardian

By turning off mobile data, you end up with a dumb or minimalist phone while out and about, but a fully internet-connected smartphone while at home, at work and in coffee shops and restaurants that provide Wi-Fi.

2019 March 23, Mike Elgan, “Why you should stop using mobile data”, in Computerworld

(mobile telephony) Internet data transfer over a cellular telephone network rather than Wi-Fi.


closing form

(programming) A method to end an implemented functionality.


back-seat gamer

en-noun

back-seat gamer (plural back-seat gamers)

Formed by analogy with back-seat driver.

(Internet, video games) A person who excessively commentates on the in-game decisions and actions of someone playing a video game, whilst not playing the game.


degrade gracefully

en-verb

degrade gracefully (third-person singular simple present degrades gracefully, present participle degrading gracefully, simple past and past participle degraded gracefully)

degrades gracefully (present singular third-person)
degrading gracefully (participle present)
degraded gracefully (participle past)
degraded gracefully (past)

(chiefly computing) Of a system: to maintain at least some of its functionality when portions are not working, or when certain features are not available.


hackbot

(computing) A bot (automated user) designed to hack into a system.


ligma

Used for its sounding similarity to "lick my (balls)" in colloquial speech.
Perhaps reminiscent of Greek terms like sigma, omega, tagma, etc., used commonly in English in various scientific contexts.

"Hey, have you heard of ligma?" "What's ligma?" "Ligma balls!"

If you've been online for the past 24 hours, you may have heard of a mysterious illness called "Ligma". The internet is going crazy after an internet personality, Tyler "Ninja" Blevins supposedly died from the new disease.

2018 July 23, Jasmine Girn, “What Is "Ligma" And Why Is Everyone Talking About It”, in Narcity

Recent reports said that Youtube and Fortnite content creator Fe4rLess died of a medical condition called Ligma.

2020 June 11, Mohit Kumar, “Fortnite: Fe4rless (Fearless) death rumour that he died of Ligma is fake”, in Sportskeeda

Later on, Heafy did issue an apology towards Machine Gun Kelly following these comments. "I’d like to publicly apologize for my tasteless comments about MGK," he said. "I just found out he's been afflicted by the Ligma variant. It’s really getting real out there. Thoughts and prayers homie."

2021 September 29, Matt Heafy (quoted), Cillian Breathnach, “Trivium's Matt Heafy "formally disses" Machine Gun Kelly for wearing a "16 year old pop punk cosplay identity on a fucking stage"”, in Guitar.com

Pranksters fooled some media members into thinking they'd been laid off by Elon Musk soon after his Twitter takeover. In reality, they were making reference to a common internet joke involving testicles. […] one of the pranksters had told reporters their name was "Rahul Ligma."

2022 October 28, Tim Marcin, “Pranksters fool some media members after Elon Musk's Twitter takeover”, in Mashable

(chiefly Internet, humorous) A fictional ostensible disease coined to sound similar to "lick my balls" (used to trick a person into asking the meaning).


surrogate pair

supplementary character
supplementary character

(computing, Unicode) The UTF-16 representation of a supplementary character, using one high surrogate and one low surrogate to encode the 20-bit offset above U+FFFF of the supplementary character's code point.


high surrogate

(computing, Unicode) A code point in the range U+D800 through U+DBFF (the High Surrogates and High Private Use Surrogates blocks), used in UTF-16 to encode the high 10 bits of the 20-bit offset above U+FFFF of the code point belonging to a supplementary character.

(computing, Unicode) A code point in the range U+D800 through U+DB7F (the High Surrogates block), excluding the range of code points used in encoding characters from the private-use planes 15 and 16.


low surrogate

(computing, Unicode) A code point in the range U+DC00 through U+DFFF (the Low Surrogates block), used in UTF-16 to encode the low 10 bits of the 20-bit offset above U+FFFF of the code point belonging to a supplementary character.


supplementary character

en-noun

supplementary character (plural supplementary characters)

(computing, Unicode) Any character assigned a code point in one of the supplementary planes (planes 1 through 16, covering the range U+10000 through U+10FFFF).


(computing, Unicode) Unicode Transformation Format-32, a fixed-width encoding for Unicode characters which uses 4 bytes (32 bits) to encode each character.