Dynner
/din'r/
noun — “a quantity of data large enough to stop nibbling and start committing.”
[by analogy with nybble and Byte]
Dynner is hacker jargon for a quantity of 32 bits. The name extends a long-running tradition of food-themed computing units: if a nybble is a small snack and a byte is a bite, then eventually someone looked at a larger data quantity and decided the only logical progression was dinner.
Deserves to Lose
/di-ˈzərvz tə lüz/
adjective — "earning the consequences through stubbornly bad choices."
Deserves to Lose is a piece of hacker culture shorthand used to describe a person, system, or decision that predictably invites failure by ignoring better alternatives, established practices, or obvious warnings. The phrase is usually delivered with equal parts criticism, sarcasm, and amusement.
Deckle
/dek'l/
noun — “two nickels pretending to be a word size.”
[from dec- and nickle]
Deckle is hacker jargon for a quantity of 10 bits, formed by combining two nickles (where a nickle represents 5 bits). Like its smaller relative, the term emerged not from formal standards but from developers trying to describe unusual hardware layouts that did not fit neatly into the byte-oriented vocabulary that later became dominant.
Crumb
/krəm/
noun — “barely enough information to leave a trail.”
Crumb is hacker jargon for a quantity of 2 binary digits—that is, 2 bits. It occupies an awkward but oddly charming place between a single Bit and a nybble, making it larger than the smallest practical unit while still feeling too tiny to deserve serious measurement.
Numerically:
bit
/bit/
noun — “the smallest useful piece of information… and occasionally the smallest useful thought.”
[from the mainstream word and Binary digIT]
Bit is the fundamental unit of information in computing. At the technical level, a bit represents a quantity that can exist in one of two possible states. Those states are commonly expressed as 0 and 1, but may also represent true and false, on and off, yes and no, or any other pair of mutually exclusive outcomes.