Random
Source Code
Random
The act of repeating an error.
Though individuals know all too well that repeating an error will hurt them, unexplainably error repetition is not uncommon.
A problem caused by a bus hitting the only person holding knowledge of, or encryption keys to critical IT systems.
Our database admin has experienced bus error. He died in a car accident last week now we cannot access our data as he was the only one with the decryption key to the database.
A number that is given with very large uncertainties, such that it might be ten or a hundred (or more) times larger or smaller than the value given. Astrophysics is famous for having 'errors in the exponent'
..."We estimate the minimum viable population to be somewhere between 100 and 5000" (extremes from the wikipedia article)
... "in our universe protons decay with a time scale in the range 10^33 - 10^45 years"
These quantities don't have an error in the value, they have an error in the exponent.
when you mess up repeadedly until you do something right
damn i fucked up my motherboard so i went and bought some ram and found out it was actually the hard drive
6👍 6👎
1). In tennis, whenever a player misses an otherwise easy or effortless shot due to their own inattentiveness rather than the opposing player's skill.
2.) In politics, a polite term for when someone ends up creating their own scandal through poor or tactless decision making.
1.) Bobby Sands failing to make that save at Wimbledon was an unforced error.
2.) Donald's Trump's statement about Mexican migrants "bringing in drugs" and being "rapists" during the 2016 campaign was an unforced error that cast a cloud over his entire presidency.
13👍 14👎
When you have insufficient funds or insufficient desire to pay for premium content on an 18+ website. Typically used as a response by content creators when clients are requesting free content that is normally paid for.
"You got an Error 305? Man, stop being such a cheap-ass."
5👍 2👎