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[–] uis@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

realize they're just using an esoteric term to describe something you've used forever.

Programming is applied math. Mathematicians say "theory of mass service", programmers say "schedulers". Well, it's "theory of mass service" in Russian, but in English it is "queue theory".