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What's the funniest weird thing your cat does?

  • One of the cats likes to run out to the hallway of my apartment complex and roll on the carpet, for several minutes straight

    • Today I Learned @lemmy.world zlatiah @lemmy.world
    TIL the name of computer "bugs" stuck around because a moth got stuck in a computer component in 1947
    americanhistory.si.edu Log Book With Computer Bug

    American engineers have been calling small flaws in machines "bugs" for over a century. Thomas Edison talked about bugs in electrical circuits in the 1870s.

    Log Book With Computer Bug

    But how did this name originally come into place in engineering??

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