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GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

what are some phrases that you use in your hobby or work that would make no sense to outsiders?

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what are some phrases that you use in your hobby or work that would make no sense to outsiders?

GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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    Spawn as a daemon, and be sure to kill the child before

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      How do I do with a detached head?

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        Check the log to find the hash. Then you can merge with your master.

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      Fork the parent and orphan the child, isolate it’s environment and kill it as well, once everything conpleted.

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      Don’t want zombies!

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    In Dutch, the term for civil engineering works, especially in infrastructure is “kunstwerk”, as in an artificial work like a concrete wall, a steel overpass, a masonry canal, etc. That sets it apart from an earthwork, like a ditch, berm or other feature.

    But “kunstwerk” also means “work of art”, as in the Mona Lisa or The Scream. And thats a regular, non-jargon word. So that occasionally leads to fun when I tell someine I recently worked on a “work of art” on the highway near Amsterdam, and people look at me really weird. Or I use a phrase like “well, you can really stack dirt that high, so we’ll have to design some art to fix the problem”.

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      Similar things are true in german. We have “Ingenieurs-kunst”, which literally means “art of engineering”, and it’s a common word. But also, “Kunst” means art like in Painting, etc.

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    He got out for a duck.

    He’s setting him up for a googly.

    That flipper stayed low.

    He’s got a fly slip and silly mid on for this spell.

    Thats another impressive tail wag by the aussies.

    Theres a MILLION. Sticky wicket, leading edge, baggy green, cover drive, dilscoop, beamer, dead ball. Could go on and on

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      hahahaha I came here to post a cricket phrase i never dreamed someone would beat me to it.

    • GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.worldOP
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      if @doublejay1999 hadn’t replied to your post I would have no clue what these phrases were for.

      • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Haha i was gonna mention it was cricket but i wanted people to guess first before i mentioned it.

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          Don’t know much about cricket but googly clued me in.

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    Layer 8 Issue, ID-10-T error, but that last one is becoming to common to safely use.

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      • Faulty carbon unit
      • PICNIC (Problem In Chair, Not In Computer) or PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair)
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        I really like faulty carbon unit, I haven’t heard that one before XD

        • Rolivers@discuss.tchncs.de
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          Sounds like something an AI would say.

      • Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social
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        I think I might start having to use PICNIC.

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          It sounds innocuous when used conversationally too so it’s less likely to be picked up as derogatory.
          A: “Was the user’s login problem difficult to fix?”
          B: “Nah, that was a PICNIC to troubleshoot.”

      • GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.worldOP
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        Add to that RTFM

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    deleted by creator

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      deleted by creator

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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    “Submit a PR before you go OoO. We’ll push the hotfix through the pipeline, then rev the KPIs and update our KRs.”

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      This PR implements the MVP for the PoC and has been deployed to Prod.

      • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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        I assumed we’d hold the release label until QC has had a chance to do a full regression. Let’s take this offline, we can do a breakout after standup.

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          And here I sit in our end-of-sprint retro meeting.

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      I only push a hotfix through my pipeline after a few beers

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    I don’t know about making no sense, but photography, especially fim, has some fun phrases: subjects are lit up and shot. Afterwards, you go into a dark room and blow them up, burn them (if you don’t dodge), and stick them in an acid bath.

    In reality, it’s lighting and taking a picture, projecting it onto photo paper, basic edits (darkening/ lightening specific areas), and processing the photo paper.

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    Always be sure to open the bunghole before you hook up the agitator.

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      I dunno, this one just sounds like common sense to me.

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    SNOT. This is - among LEGO fans - the short hand for a certain building technique: Studs Not On Top.

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      I’ve been building with studs on top for as long as I can remember

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    Topology allows for sets to be both open and closed or neither.

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      Baby lemme turn your open cover into a finite subcover 😉

    • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      please tell me you’ve seen this downfall meme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyD4p8_y8Kw

      I’ve tried to teach myself topology several times and always end up feeling so angry at the naming

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        I have!

        • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          A topologist, fan of dwarf fortress, and connoisseur of fine memes.

          Where are people like you in meatspace?

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            Your appreciation of those things lead me to believe you are indeed quite a cool person yourself. We should definitely make a club! For real though, your comment made my day. Thanks :)

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      Database engineering does have some overlap with your dating life :)

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    What word your looking for is a shibboleth, which of course is itself a shibboleth.

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    Mostly weird abbreviations and insulting nicknames.

    “Cxl per Sparky e/o ssnA. Cust NFG.”

    “Mark says to cancel this order at the end of A season. The customer is no fucking good, probably won’t ever show up.”

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    “Have we run the Quarter 5 data yet?”

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      Dafuq?

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        Yeah, that’s pretty much everyone’s first response lol. It’s a final run of data for a year after all the changes have been frozen.

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          We just called that the final-final. And sometimes, goddammit, the frustrating final-final (v2)

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        Inflation

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          Best answer.

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    My yellow pots are not saturated, looks like I am low on red chips. Will have to stamp down some more and let the floating hairdryers build it.

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      Sounds like how you find your contact in a spy thriller movie

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        No it sounds like they live in the Harry Potter universe

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    I’ve got three 473 100’s and two 532 300’s running, so use the orange OD7’s.

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      Flight controller?

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        Laser testing lab!

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