I guess now we finally know why Babbage never finished building the Analytical Engine.

  • Deceptichum@quokk.au
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    20 hours ago

    Debugging was easier when all you had to do was spray the room with fly spray and vacuum the tubes.

    • trollercoaster@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      2 hours ago

      Just that the Analytical Engine she’d have had to debug was all gears and levers and cranks and linkages and shit. One wrong move and it’ll take off a finger, or a hand, or more.