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minus-squareilinamorato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-29 months agoI love this sort of thing. Like NASA engineers calling an explosion a “rapid unscheduled disassembly.”
minus-squareSaintWacko@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 months agoOr a data breach an “emergent distributed backup”
minus-squareLillyPip@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoOr ‘I dunno what was wrong, but banging it helped’ as ‘percussive maintenance’.
I love this sort of thing. Like NASA engineers calling an explosion a “rapid unscheduled disassembly.”
Or a data breach an “emergent distributed backup”
Or ‘I dunno what was wrong, but banging it helped’ as ‘percussive maintenance’.