Beautiful .... all that wiring looks like hell tho
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"Last time we debugged, we got five moths, two fireflies, and one confused toad"
lol ... during a renovation of an old cottage I had years ago ... I took apart all the wiring and opened up the main breaker panel ... one side was clear, the other side with the main power connection was lined with a squirrel with its limbs and tail spread out frozen solid ... it had died months ago and got frozen in the winter weather.
Technically the first every computer bug was a moth who flew into eniac.
Last time this was posted I called bullshit, but for some goddamn reason this is genuinely what the computer looks like. It really is suspended just above the floor. It really is a Lovecraftian tangle of nonsense.
Stored-program computers wouldn't emerge for another couple years... and people complained that they were slower and less reliable. Surely, these professional ultranerds said, we should stick with rewiring the whole machine every time we change the program, so it can only do what we intend. Who would ever trust a machine to write instructions for another machine?