There’s an alternate universe where programmers are fixing slugs because it wasn’t a bug that died in a mainframe transistor

rob74 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

I think that was a relay back then (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/First_Co...). Also, if the climate inside your mainframe is so humid that it attracts slugs, you have bigger problems...

	▲	sellmesoap 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		You wouldn't get the same pride in development on your liquid computer if you didn't have to wrestle with some slugs now and then :D

ahoka 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Etymology of "bug" goes back far more than that.

hcs 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I need to deslug my computer, it's getting sluggish.

ainiriand 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

A long morning of slugfixes awaits me...

	▲	orphea 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Will you do a hotslug release today?

neuronic 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

At least Firehen has released new deslugging tools.

jve 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Meh, a month ago slug destroyed a robot lawnmower: https://imgur.com/a/k6guVxi

	▲	Hamuko 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I’m guessing it was mutually assured destruction.