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Mar 28, 2024 11:15 AM
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D1RTYPENGU1N
Just don't look into what IBM was using computer for BEFORE 1947.... or do, here it is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
westPAguy
SolarFlaair
I wonder how many times it is literally a bug causing the issue?
Polymathena
And the ghost is REALLY A GHOST!
frischcode
The terms bug and debugging predate computers. This time there was a "literal bug".
sms001
It's right there in context: "First ACTUAL case...." Not sure why you were downvoted, this comes up every time this is posted. Have one U/V back at least. Cheers.
JohnSmithJrTheThird
Akshhhually, the word computer predates computers - it used to be a profession (funnily eniugh, they were out-of-job wig makers)
HomerSimpsonsEvilTwin
If you like computer history I highly recommend the podcast Advent of Computing. As a huge computer nerd with a passing interest in history,I love it.
Zapathasura
That moth pulled a Lawnmower Man and became a digital life-form.
Adester
And the software industry blurred wrongly functioning code into bugs, because a bug in the computer wasn't anything the developer could be blamed for. "The software doesn't work right" - "Must be a bug."
dobroweigh
Like2Fox
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MabooCraboo
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rchcopper
Technically moths aren't bugs... (No piercing mouthparts, not a member of Hemiptera group of insects, etc.)
FrankensteinsMonstersSweatyBallBag
LespritDeLescalier22
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
If not a bug, then what? Also, what is your specific definition of bugs?
rchcopper
The bit in brackets is the bit you've asked for.
Bossvoss
Technically those are parentheses, not brackets.
rchcopper
All bugs are insects, but not all insects are bugs
rchcopper
Moths are a sub-classification of Lepidoptera
inkasep1
That’s ridiculous, they don’t even resemble leopards, adopted or otherwise.
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
Why should that narrow definition be the gold standard? Who decided that? Because I don't agree with that definition.
rchcopper
You can disagree with the definitions of lots of things if you want. That's your choice. It doesn't make them not so, however.
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
You didn't answer my questions though.
Bestiarium
Actually that's a good question. The biological definition of the group Hemiptera (which are the animals we call 'bugs') was defined by Carl Linnaeus in 1758, but I don't know who or how it was decided that the English word 'bug' refers to that group. It's a bit difficult to track down the definition of that word, because outside of biology the term is often used as an interchangeable synonym for 'insect'. In addition, even within the biological sciences, 'bug' or 'true bug' is sometimes
Bestiarium
used to refer to the Heteroptera, which are a specific group within Hemiptera. So, short answer, Linnaeus decided on the definition (though I'm not sure whether he defined a taxonomic or a strictly morphological definition, i.e. did he include what traits the animal should have in order to be called a bug, or only that it has to be a species within Hemiptera?). Long answer, it's muddy terrain because the everyday use of the word 'bug' differs from the biological definition. Since I'm