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the universe forgetting its lines for half a second
means A glitch is a sudden, usually minor malfunction or hiccup in a system — electronic, mechanical, or otherwise — that briefly throws things off before everything (hopefully) snaps back to normal.
from Glitch slipped into English in the mid-20th century, popularized by engineers and astronauts in the early space age to describe a brief spurious electrical signal or sudden hitch. It's widely traced to Yiddish glitsh, 'a slip' (related to glitshn, 'to slide'), itself a cousin of German glitschen, 'to slip or skid' — so the word carries the original sense of something slipping for just a moment when you least expect it.
- origin myth
- likely from Yiddish glitsh, meaning a slip
- space age
- astronauts popularized it during the 1960s rocket era
- speedrunners
- build entire careers exploiting deliberate game errors
- the matrix
- a deja vu was a glitch in the system
- hardware ghosts
- cosmic rays can flip a single memory bit
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