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Computer science terms that sound like fantasy RPG abilities

I’ll start:

  • Firewall
  • Virtual Memory
  • Single source of truth
  • Lossless Compression (this one sounds really powerful for some reason)

Your turn

Hard mode: Try not to include closer to domain-specific things like javascript library names

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    • Knapsack problem
    • Pushdown automata
    • Zero-knowledge proof
    • Late binding
    • Borrow checker
    • Channel coding
    • Tail recursion
    • Camel case
    • Double float
    • Red-black trees
    • Quaternions

    Lossy compression feels like cheating:

    • Block prediction
    • Motion compensation
    • Chroma subsampling
    • Frequency space
    • Time domain