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Forget numbers, think Marvel's Endgame, envision cop superheroes from all over the world converging on the supervillain to enact justice and save civilization!
by ASalazarMX 2y ago
Forget numbers, think Marvel's Endgame, envision cop superheroes from all over the world converging on the supervillain to enact justice and save civilization!
I swear law enforcement and the military choose the cringest name codes, not much better than names kids would pick.
- b112 2y agoGovernment types do everything by committee and meeting, all responsibility for decisions is shared, everyone must agree. Thus nothing risky, edgy or creative makes it out of such meetings.
- red-iron-pine 2y agolol what? have you seen what comes out of the corporate world lately?
- nozzlegear 2y ago> I swear law enforcement and the military choose the cringest name codes, not much better than names kids would pick. I have it on good authority that the people in law enforcement and the military — and indeed all humans in general — were in fact kids at one point. Maybe we all just like cool sounding codenames, even if some keyboard jockeys on a forum will call it “cringe”.
- ASalazarMX 2y agoI was a cringy kid too, but now I'm an adult that wouldn't call an official war strike "Operation Beastmaster" (real name from the Iraq invasion). Christ, how many years before we see names like "Operation CyBoRgDiNoSaUr"?
- nozzlegear 2y ago> but now I'm an adult that wouldn't call an official war strike "Operation Beastmaster" (real name from the Iraq invasion). Why? That name’s dope. If you can’t give cool names to military operations of all things, then you can’t give cool names to anything. And as someone else pointed out, the US military does have a framework for how they name operations. They at least avoid sounding like our names in the software industry: https://youtu.be/y8OnoxKotPQ https://youtu.be/y8OnoxKotPQ :P
- sandworm101 2y agoThey may seem cringe but, at least the military names, are usually part of an underlying lexicon that outsiders don't understand. Some are inside jokes, others are cover for classified names.
- hombre_fatal 2y agoYou'd think we as software developers would have more humility when judging how other people name things.
- jachee 2y agoYeah, really. Naming things is one of the n+1 Hard Problems of Computing.
- segasaturn 2y agoIt's standard law enforcement PR. People who are serious about cybersecurity topics might shake their heads a little at the self-aggrandizing naming and Matrix "hacker" backgrounds, but they aren't the target audience. The target audience is for the mass public, to glamorize the police as the Good Guys who are going after the Bad Guys.
- chucksmash 2y ago"Endgame" was a word with an established meaning before Disney stuck it in the title of a superhero movie in 2019. The patch for "Operation Endgame" (in the screen cap at the top of the article) even shows chess pieces, not superheroes.
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