:state: n. 1. Condition, situation. "What's the state of your
latest hack?" "It's winning away." "The system tried to read
and write the disk simultaneously and got into a totally {wedged}
state." The standard question "What's your state?" means
"What are you doing?" or "What are you about to do?" Typical
answers are "about to gronk out", or "hungry". Another
standard question is "What's the state of the world?", meaning
"What's new?" or "What's going on?". The more terse and
humorous way of asking these questions would be "State-p?".
Another way of phrasing the first question under sense 1 would be
"state-p latest hack?". 2. Information being maintained in
non-permanent memory (electronic or human).
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
latest hack?" "It's winning away." "The system tried to read
and write the disk simultaneously and got into a totally {wedged}
state." The standard question "What's your state?" means
"What are you doing?" or "What are you about to do?" Typical
answers are "about to gronk out", or "hungry". Another
standard question is "What's the state of the world?", meaning
"What's new?" or "What's going on?". The more terse and
humorous way of asking these questions would be "State-p?".
Another way of phrasing the first question under sense 1 would be
"state-p latest hack?". 2. Information being maintained in
non-permanent memory (electronic or human).
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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- state: n. 1. Condition, situation. "What's the state of your
latest hack?" "It's winning away." "The system tried to read
and write the disk simultaneously and got into a totally {wedged}
state." The standard question "What's your state?" means
"What are you doing?" or "What are you about to do?" Typical
answers are "about to gronk out",
or "hungry". Another standard question is "What's... - bit n.
[from the mainstream meaning and `Binary digIT']
1.
[techspeak] The unit of information; the amount of... - The `-P' convention: --------------------- Turning a word into a
question by appending the syllable `P';
from the LISP convention of appending the letter `P'... - hack
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produces what is needed,
but not well. 2. n. An incredibly good, and perhaps... - hack mode n.
1. What one is in when hacking, of course.
2. More specifically, a Zen-like state of total focus... - wedged: adj. 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without
help.
This is different from having crashed. If the system... - The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,
'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be... - Helen Keller mode: n. 1. State of a hardware or software system
that is deaf,
dumb, and blind, i.e., accepting no input and generating... - CA, the Granola State -
What ain't fruits is nutz...
