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My 2¢: “bug” conjures up the actual physical creature to non-technical people (“what’s a software bug?”) whereas everybody immediately understands “glitch” is a
by uncomputation 5y ago
My 2¢: “bug” conjures up the actual physical creature to non-technical people (“what’s a software bug?”) whereas everybody immediately understands “glitch” is a software/hardware/computer issue. People tend to avoid overloading words so to speak, linguistically
- tke248 5y agoThats because the first time it was an actual bug https://www.nationalgeographic.org/thisday/sep9/worlds-first-computer-bug/ https://www.nationalgeographic.org/thisday/sep9/worlds-first...