cheese_greater@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 7 个月前Is there a series showing how we got rocks to think?message-squaremessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up153arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up149arrow-down1message-squareIs there a series showing how we got rocks to think?cheese_greater@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 7 个月前message-square26fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarepartial_accumen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·7 个月前Before we used rocks to think we did it with vacuum, heat, and glass. At the time we did have some very very basic thinking rocks with primitive semiconductor diodes made from lead and sulfur.
minus-squareChaosCoati@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-27 个月前Also how debugging got its name, because bugs would get into the vacuum tubes Edit: I did some digging and found what’s claimed to be the actual “de-bugging”. Turns out it wasn’t as widespread as my memory made it out to be.
minus-squareasbestos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 个月前Wouldn’t really be vacuum if they could get in though
minus-squareChaosCoati@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 个月前Very true. I got more curious and found this discussion trying to trace “debug.”
Before we used rocks to think we did it with vacuum, heat, and glass. At the time we did have some very very basic thinking rocks with primitive semiconductor diodes made from lead and sulfur.
Also how debugging got its name, because bugs would get into the vacuum tubes
Edit: I did some digging and found what’s claimed to be the actual “de-bugging”. Turns out it wasn’t as widespread as my memory made it out to be.
Wouldn’t really be vacuum if they could get in though
Very true. I got more curious and found this discussion trying to trace “debug.”