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state
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. 1. Condition, situation. What's the state of your latest hack? It's
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winning away. The system tried to read and write the disk simultaneously and
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got into a totally wedged state. The standard question What's your state?
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means What are you doing? or What are you about to do? Typical answers are
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about to gronk out , or hungry. Another standard question is What's the
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state of the world? , meaning What's new? or What's going on?. The more
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terse and humorous way of asking these questions would be State-p?. Another
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way of phrasing the first question under sense 1 would be state-p latest
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hack?. 2. Information being maintained in non-permanent memory (electronic
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or human).
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