• blakestacey@awful.systems
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    2 days ago

    The phrase mammoth accounting error sounds like a joke from David Macaulay’s cartoons in The Way Things Work, with a mammoth wearing a green visor and looking up from a mechanical calculator with a perturbed expression.

    • ebu@awful.systems
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      edit-2
      7 hours ago

      if i could find my old copy of The New Way Things Work, i would absolutely go find the seven-segment LCD section and general-purpose computing pages to post here