Magnum Opus

pricey: expensive

squish (something) if something soft squishes or is squished, it is pushed out of shape when it is pressed

slog: to walk or travel somewhere steadily, with great effort or difficulty

tedious: lasting or taking too long and not interesting

decent: of a good enough standard or quality

conundrum: of a good enough standard or quality

​game (for something/to do something) ready and willing to do something new, difficult or dangerous

slouch: to stand, sit or move in a lazy way, often with your shoulders and head bent forward

Bill Gates spent significant time at Harvard’s Aiken Computation Laboratory during the mid-1970s. As a student, Gates often used the lab’s PDP-10 computer for intensive programming, sometimes racking up hundreds of hours of computer time monthly and, along with Paul Allen, was noted for using university resources for early commercial projects.

emulate something (computing) (of a computer program, etc.) to work in the same way as another computer, etc. and perform the same tasks

the pecking order: (informal, often humorous) the order of importance in relation to one another among the members of a group

idle: (of machines, factories, etc.) not in use

chunk: (informal) a fairly large amount of something

frenzied: ​involving a lot of activity and strong emotions in a way that is often violent or frightening and not under control

sabotage something to prevent something from being successful or being achieved, especially deliberately

bust: (North American English) a thing that is not good

tuck something + adv./prep. to push, fold or turn the ends or edges of clothes, paper, etc. so that they are held in place or look neat

A bootstrap loader is a specialized, small program residing in firmware (ROM/BIOS/UEFI) that initializes hardware and loads the operating system (OS) kernel into memory upon powering on a computer.

magnum opus: ​a large and important work of art, literature or music, especially one that people think is the best work ever produced by that artist, writer, etc.

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