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