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.world – 162 points –
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Spawn as a daemon, and be sure to kill the child before

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

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".

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.

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

if @doublejay1999 hadn't replied to your post I would have no clue what these phrases were for.

Haha i was gonna mention it was cricket but i wanted people to guess first before i mentioned it.

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.

  • Faulty carbon unit
  • PICNIC (Problem In Chair, Not In Computer) or PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair)

I think I might start having to use PICNIC.

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."

Prep the frogs, make a burrito, use a pillow, thread the stems, put it in the hydration chamber, processing and stripping, cram and jam, just tube it, mechanics, so many more!

I’m a (foam-free) wedding and event florist.

"Submit a PR before you go OoO. We'll push the hotfix through the pipeline, then rev the KPIs and update our KRs."

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I have!

A topologist, fan of dwarf fortress, and connoisseur of fine memes.

Where are people like you in meatspace?

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 :)

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

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

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."

"Have we run the Quarter 5 data yet?"

Dafuq?

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.

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

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.

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

No it sounds like they live in the Harry Potter universe

Odd groups got left, even groups got right. That means 1, 3, 5, 7 left; 2, 4, 6, 8 right. 7 & 8 are whelp groups. Ok listen the fuck up. You are going to DPS very very slowly. Now, and by slowly I mean fucking slow. If you get aggro, it means you are going to lose 50dkp because you didn't know what the fuck to do. And watch the fucking tail. If you get into the whelps, you lose 50dkp again, for not being where the fuck you were supposed to be. There is no aggro reset. There is some shit about an aggro reset when people don't know how to manage their aggro. After 2 sunders you can basically start doing damage to it. Assuming you know how aggro works and you don't over-aggro. Ok nuke it, dot it. Help the whelp groups. When it's in phase 2, nuke it as hard as possible. You want to get it down as fast as possible. Have dots up on every time, 2 rows, shadow word pain, warlock curses, rends, everything. I don't see enough dots, more dots now. Come on more DPS. Hit it like you mean it. You'll have time to rest in phase 3 while I'm getting the aggro. Remember, save all your aggro reducing abilities for when it lands. That means feign death, vanish, fucking fade, anything you can use to reset aggro. At 40% you will stop dots, until then you will throw more dots. Throw more dots, more dots, more dots ... come on more dots. Ok, stop dots. Now hit it very hard ... and very fast. Lee run to the center, Mulgras run to the center, Forsyte run to the center, Nurf run to the center, Isis run to the center. Whatever the fuck you do, do not stand next to other people. Mulgras, center. Just heal me. Lee do not... go away from the head lee. Go away. Ok DPS, slowly. Come here you fucking cunt. Watch the tail! Whelps! Crushim was feared into... Who the fuck was that? Crushim, what the fuck? Whelps, left side! Even side! Many whelps! Now, handle it! Fuck! That's a fucking 50dkp minus! What the fuck was that shit? If you stand in the right fucking place, there is no way you are going to fucking get into the goddamn whelps, whatever fucking fear, tailswipe, whatever the fuck ok? It's like one in a fucking million. From the fucking north corner to the middle into the fucking whelp cave, it's not even fucking remotely imaginable!

All I know is that it's a raid, you're a sherpa, and I feel your pain lol.

That just reminded me that "Raid" is one of those words that might not make sense for outsiders both from work and from my hobby.

Looking to buy any human leather or human leather made clothes because my guy loves that kind of stuff. I'd like to make it myself but then people get all emotional about it

::: spoiler answer Playing Rimworld :::

Idk about make no sense, but a fun one is: "Can you put the leg in the fridge?" Or "damnit is that another leg? That's like the 3rd one today!" Or "Did you take photos of that rectum?"

" I need a SPOA and an AOC for this attached, and they better have the secure done before they show up for the EPU "

"Float the remotes so I can pull the pioneers."

Put the hydraulics into an unpressurized state so I can take the hoses off.

Computers are an endless source of these. Someone else already mentioned daemons and killing orphans; I submit "I only ever ssh into that box, so I keep it headless." ("I only ever access that computer via the terminal, so I don't install any software that uses graphics.")

Conlanging (constructing languages) inherits all the jargon of linguistics, and then adds a bunch of slang on top for good measure. "I was worried that glomming tense markers to subjects in my analytic clong was unnaturalistic, but it turns out ANADEW" is the kind of thing I might say in a casual conversation with another conlanger.

Git is a fine subset of these phrases. "Today I messed up big time and now I have to work out how to recover from a detached head."

German medical abbreviations like SH# re, probably needing a PFNA or HTEP. Gotta prepare the papers for the AHB. Translates to broken femur at the right hip, needs a (huge) Nail or artificial hip to fix. Insurance usually pays for rehab right after the surgery so we fill out the application for that.

Also, patient has very low BI, probably won't get the AHB. Let's search for a KZP.

Yo, 4B has a UI with MRSA now, on top of the massive PE post SAB. We might need to up the Nor and increase the PEEP. But I think it`s time to talk with the NOK about DNR. Will be a turf without bounce back soon.

I have no medical background, but...

"[Patient in room 4B] has a urinary tract infection with Methicillin-resistant Staph now, on top of the massive pulmonary embolism post"... surgery, I assume? Not sure about the AB. Second sentence I don't get, but third is "...time to talk with Next of Kin about Do Not Resucitate. Will be burying them if they don't start recovering soon."

That pretty close?

“We might need to up the Nor and increase the PEEP. But I think it`s time to talk with the NOK about DNR. Will be a turf without bounce back soon.”

Nor- Norephinepherine increases heart rate and blood pressure.

PEEP - Positive End Expiratory Pressure - used typically on patients on a ventilator to increase oxygen

Turf-transfer patient to a different unit/facility

The last 2 sentences mean the patient is not doing well and will likely be transferred to a different place to be taken care of. Hope this helps. (I do work in medicine)

As for SAB take your pick.

Yeah, absolutely correct. SAB was intentionally unspecific, but is mostly used for Subarachnoidal bleed around here.

A turf that can`t bounce is one that can't come back. And only one department does not send patients back: The guys and gals with the freezers aka the morgue.

That is actually really close - impressive.

u/usually Lurker explains the rest &the last sentence is meant as a reference to Samuel Shem - House of God. A book I highly recommend and who is seen as the bible of dark humour by many health care professionals.

Man, I work in the medical field and sometimes people go too far with the abbreviations. It can be hard wading through a patient's history when the person that wrote up the history decides to use every single abbreviation, even uncommonly used ones. And then there are no additional explanatory notes or history documents to tell what it means.

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"The one thing about working concom is that fen sometimes enjoy freaking the mundanes."

The one thing about working as science fiction convention staff is that your attendees sometimes like being weird to outsiders, just to see them react in amusing ways, and that can be annoying to deal with.

You send it to the queue and let the load-balancer decide which server picks it up and handles it as a transaction.

(That's from server-side software development and it would be talking about some kind of message with a comand or data being sent to a system with multiple computers handling such messages, typical in high-performance stuff that has to deal with hundreds of thousands of such requests per minute)

There's not really much official terminology people wouldn't get, but because I have a certain way of going about things, sometimes I find myself making terminology in order to specify things. For example, the topic of how people record history was discussed the other day, and I provided this diagram.

History

I cast on the right amount, but the double points always give me trouble, especially since they're size 0. But it has to be tight, others the stuffing falls out and the cat is sad.

Was kompiliert, das funktioniert. Meaning if it compiles, it works.

Grab a stack of decodables for my tier 3's, we need to differentiate the small group rotation stations.