(film, slang) Meaningless or gratuitous content displayed on computer consoles in visual entertainment productions.
(film, slang) Meaningless or gratuitous content displayed on computer consoles in visual entertainment productions.
The PEB includes the list of loaded modules (i.e., the EXE and DLLs), the memory containing environment strings, the current working directory, and data for managing the process’ heaps—as well as lots of special-case Win32 cruft that has…
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(slang) Anything that is old or of inferior quality.
Students “still think of privacy as ‘the one secret I don’t want revealed,’ and that’s not the problem. Their problem is all the stuff that’s the cruft, the data dandruff, of life, that they don’t think of as secret in any way, but which…
"cruft" means: Anything that is old or of inferior quality.. This is informal slang, common in casual speech, texting and social media, but not appropriate for school work, applications or professional settings. There is no real cause for concern in itself; it is everyday peer vocabulary. If your child uses it, a light comment about audience and register is usually enough — no need to escalate. Context, more than the word, tells you whether to follow up.
"cruft" means: Anything that is old or of inferior quality.. Register: informal slang, fine in casual conversation, texting and social media but not in academic essays, business writing or formal speech. A common non-native mistake is to use the word in the wrong register, or to assume one fixed meaning when it is actually polysemous; always check the surrounding register and the audience before producing it yourself. In formal writing, prefer a neutral synonym or a short descriptive phrase, and use this word only when you have heard or read it being used naturally in a comparable context.
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(computing, slang) Redundant, old or improperly written code, especially that which accumulates over time.
The document just goes on at length in the same way, picking out the sort of cruft that’s been littering Trump’s Twitter feed since Nov. 3 and tying it all into one stinky package. It’s sincerely not worth running through the entire lita…
“What I've seen of AP suggests that there ought be a bunch of hyperlight and VERY SMALL variations of D&D 5e around to serve what they really need (and being praised for cutting the cruft), but that's not at all the case, and I feel like I'm missing something.”
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