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AFAIK // n. [Usenet] Abbrev. for "As Far As I Know".
AFJ // n. Written-only abbreviation for "April Fool's Joke".
Elaborate April Fool's hoaxes are a long-established tradition on Usenet and Interne...
AFK [MUD] Abbrev. for "Away From Keyboard". Used to notify others that you will be momentarily unavailable online.
eg. "Let's not go kill that frost giant yet, I need to go AFK to make a...
AI /A-I/ n. Abbreviation for `Artificial Intelligence', so common that the full form is almost never written or spoken among hackers.
AI-complete /A-I k*m-pleet'/ adj. [MIT, Stanford
AI koans /A-I koh'anz/ pl.n.
AIDS /aydz/ n.
AIDX /ayd'k*z/ n. Derogatory term for IBM's perverted version of Unix, AIX, especially for the AIX 3.
? used in the IBM RS/6000 series (some hackers think it is funnier just to pronounce "A...
airplane rule n. "Complexity increases the possibility of failure
a twin-engine airplane has twice as many engine problems as a single-engine airplane....
Alderson loop n. [Intel] A special version of an infinite loop where there is an exit condition available, but inaccessible in the current implementation of the code.
Typically this is c...

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