i really do love the idea of m@tes
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mates or mateys whatever’s fine
Lemons
pirates?
Divs seems short and snappy.
This is the only one here that doesn't make me cringe
zero dividers
Maybe pirates or mates, since piracy is one of our core philosophies here. And our other ones also align with that similarly by being things that are rejected by current norm much like pirates were rejected by the current society at the time. I don't know maybe it's too obvious or boring.
0s pirates divers arcs
idk anything else
These are mostly joke suggestions, but:
NaNs
nulls
voids
unhandled exceptions
... common theme here is the math/programming joke, but many of them also capture elements of anarchism, or can be interpreted as adopting a self-referential moniker which mocking the systems anarchists critique.
... probably it is a bit of a reach, but a good number of people refer to black cats as 'voids' these days, and ... pretty decent history of angry black cats as symbols of anarchism.
You could also maybe l33tsp33k them up a bit?
Use 'z' instead of 's' to pluralize?
... common theme here is the math/programming joke, but many of them also capture elements of anarchism
first I didn't understand, but this way "unhandled exceptions" sounds very cool. maybe a bit long though
Depending on what programming language you are using, and precisely how you've coded a function, which exact numerical data types, and functions/methods you are using...
Actually attempting to divide something by zero will result in either NaN, Not a Number, Null, or an Unhandled Exception, as an... output value/error type.
I tried to explain 'void' a bit better, Im not personally familiar with any code language that'll have 'void' as an output/error type when you try to divide by zero... but most people use the phrase 'null and void', so, my brain associated that word in as well.
As far as how those terms refer back to an anarchist mindset?
I am 'not a number', I am a human being, so are all others.
Null or nulled out has been a cyberpunkish slang term to refer to both an individual being seen as inherently unspecial, not unique, made into just another consumer/commodity... as well referring to actually killing or otherwise neutralizing someone or something... for decades now.
It seems you get the less programmy meaning of 'unhandled exception', in the 'become ungovernable' sense, but now hopefully you also get the math/programmer meaning, and see how these all work as double entendres or at least have somewhat esoteric meanings.
... The problem is that they don't work as well in common speech as a replacement for common nouns... with at least one of the reasons why that is the case being that evidently the multifarious meanings are too esoteric, lol, which is why I said I was mostly proposing these as jokes.
no I understand the programming side of it, I meant how "unhandled exceptions" translates to the real world that I didn't get immediately (exactly that it's similar to "be ungovernable", as you said)
A division by zero is incalculable. On computers, this is sometimes represented by a special value NaN, which stands for "Not a number".
So we could be NaNs? Although a few Anglo countries use Nan to refer to a grandmother.
Another benefit: NaN implies a kind of freedom. To quote from the cult 60's show The Prisoner: "I am not a number, I am a free man"
that would be so fucking rad
... I proposed this as well, and another thing NaN is quite close to is... Naan bread, lol.
Basically a kind of flatbread, usually associated with India, sort of kind of like pita bread.
Its pronounced like... Non, at least the way I pronounce Non, as a PNW dialect English native speaker, not like Nan, as in Nanna, or other similar words to refer to a grandmother, or sometimes mother, different vowel sound.
I recommend "Mathematical Criminals" for obviois reason.
I will not take questions, please deliver the prize to my home.
You'd have to give us your address!
Donald J. Trump, white house, washingtom D.C.
I'd please like a package Bomb as prize, thank you
I like the cut of your gib.
Deez Naughts
Leech my seed!
... im sorry, rofl
If only i can add this as an instance tagline 😔
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