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Bottom? Just the fact that there is that first selector button is a huge spoiler. Not to mention the title that briefly appears before fading out. Not going to be more specific than this to not ruin the show for people who haven't seen it yet.

The comic was last updated a decade ago. I've added it to my RSS feeder without getting my hopes up. I was really getting into the story too.

Maybe a website is selling screws and wants to show a 1:1 picture.


And? Are you suggesting the driving of bulldozers shouldn't be regulated?


It's not. Nor are tractors, excavators or a myriad of other heavy equipment.

I saw upthread someone saying that manufactures should be liable if someone uses their products to cause harm. While emotionally this might make us feel good w.r.t. Guns, think about that when carried over to other industries.

Someone got hit, sue Ford. They didn't put in enough sensors to detect pedestrians and auto brake.

Someone hacked, sue Microsoft. They didn't do enough to detect malice action.

Someone 3D printed a gun and used it? Sue Bamboo, they didn't stop someone from printing illegal guns... oh wait already reaching this step.


The title is certainly clickbait-y. But the content is still interesting. And not sloppy.


It is, but claiming that it was "killed by the US government", and suggest it would have became the dominant OS is dubious at best.

So it's not just clickbait-y, it misleading at best if not just a lie.


At a minimum, it was set by the Japanese Ministry of Education to be used on all computers in schools from primary through college --- if implemented there would have been an entire generation of Japanese students who grew up with that OS.


There was an entire generation that grew up in Japan that used Japan-only cell phones that were used nowhere else. The same thing would’ve happened with this OS, it would be used in Japan but nowhere else.


Yes, but aside from novels (in Japan), not much is written/created on cell phones --- an OS presumably would've had a development environment which might have caused the OS to continue on after education was done.


The title says that the US government /intervened/. As the article explains that happened, but also that that intervention wasn't the only reason why TRON didn't succeed.

The title should have been "Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened although it quickly changed its mind, but a Japanese Windows PC seller used that intervention to boycott it". Or maybe just "Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, here's why it failed".


Move further west, and "trampa" means "excrement" in Portuguese. Usually used in the figure sense, rather then literal.


1947: Harvard engineers working on the Mark II computer find a moth stuck to one of the relays. They tape it to a logbook and write "First actual case of a bug being found" and introduce the words 'bug' and 'debug' in the context of programming.

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_33466...


Sadly, this one's a myth. If you check the wikipedia page for Bug as an engineering term (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_%28engineering%29#History), its usage is traced back to the 1870s.


This event is not mythical. That is why the log entry says "First /actual/ case of a bug being found".

It's a humorous pointing out of "We've called them bugs for a long time, but this time it actually was a real, physical bug, and here it is - ha ha."

The myth is that people for some reason started thinking that was the first use of the word "bug" in this context.


It's not a myth, as far as I can tell. Note I didn't say they invented the term (though, granted, I inadvertently did imply it I suppose). In any case it likely helped popularize it.


This reminds me of why I'm very nervous I've been able to login to LinkedIn by just click an email LinkedIn sent me; and to someone else's Netflix account from an email that was sent to me by mistake.

You _could_ blame the users for not setting up 2FA. But two wrongs don't make a right, and these websites should always ask for another means of authentication, even if it's just a password. Url parameters in links don't count.


I recognize the domain name from playing some of his daily puzzles, namely Ronin and Cell Tower.

https://www.andrewt.net/puzzles/


That was a pretty good car analogy. Thank you.

Edit to add: I'm unsure where assembly would sit in this analogy. Skateboard? Monocycle? Perhaps ice skates.


Ice skates with a rocket engine on your back?


Surely assembly language is like moving with your legs? A Flintstones car, and machine code is walking?


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