What is it with people naming things without thinking?

There is a daycare / early childhood education business in a strip mall in my city, with a big sign out front advertising itself.

The business name on that sign? "ONCE UPON A CHILD".

Scout's honour. Sheesh!

#name #naming #NamingThings #business #inappropriate #WTF #wat #sheesh

#AutoTune software adjusts the frequency - the pitch - of musical elements like a singer's voice, musical instruments, or what have you, to fix them being off-key or out-of-tune. Whether autotune is an excellent tool for musicians and producers, or a blight on the listener's ear is out of scope for the discussion here 😉 .

The pitch gets adjusted up and down automatically to ensure it stays at the correct note, rather than drifting into the no-man's land between semitones. Up and down to just the right discrete values, like a certain people conveyance device common in tall buildings.

I just wanted to say that if there isn't already autotune software named "Elevator Pitch", there should be.

#idea #name #NamingThings #ElevatorPitch #pitch #software #elevator #music #producer #production #audio

In a stunning display of product management, Microsoft Power Automate has launched two entirely different features called "process map".

2023 feature: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/blog/power-automate/microsoft-power-automate-process-mining-is-generally-available/

2025 feature: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/blog/power-automate/announcing-the-process-map-public-preview-in-power-automate/

#PowerAutomate #PowerPlatform #namingthings

How would you prefer to name macros that generate syscalls in assembly?

#namingthings #syscalls #assembly #asm #shellcode

Is there a canonical Assembly term for instructions or operands that are dependent on the byte offset of the instruction within the assembled/encoded output (ex: jmps to labels or RIP-relative operands)? Is Position-Dependent-Instruction a thing?

#asm #assembly #namingthings

What is the opposite of a rule-based scanner (i.e. takes an input value and returns discovered output values)? What do you call that? A value-based scanner? Is there a Wikipedia page listing the various categories/classifications of security scanners?

#infosec #namingthings