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by verandaguy 261 days ago
It’s a running joke in the field to have exotic pluralizations. Mutex->mutices is one, box->boxen (by analogy to oxen) is also pretty common.

We need more casual light-heartedness in this line of work considering how much casual bullshit there is.
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hcs 261 days ago
> there's two hard problems in computer science: we only have one joke and it's not funny.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42046226

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zabzonk 261 days ago
> box->boxen (by analogy to oxen) is also pretty common.

Not to mention (from way back when) VAX -> VAXen.

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