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[-] aramis87@fedia.io 67 points 3 days ago

The Mars Climate Orbiter crashed because some fuckwit programmer at Lockheed Martin programmed their tiny piece of software in freedom units, instead of metric like they were required.

[-] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I rally want

I reley dont wan to point out your typo, but you triggered this year's rewatch of Dot Dot Dot

[-] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

mildly fany.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Be-a-ca-u-se

[-] Maxxie@lemmy.ml 28 points 3 days ago

Can you imagine how much your hands would shake typing git blame

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 21 points 3 days ago

There really should be a git repent

[-] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 days ago

My years of playing ksp says you should be firing the thrusters long before you open the chutes otherwise theyll just get jerked off the moment they open at high speed entry...

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

Drogue chutes are good too, especially for stabilizing a craft that really wants to make like a lawn dart. Using them I can make Duna landings with only a few seconds of thrust from a soft touchdown.

Repacking can be tedious though...

[-] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 days ago

Now what about if the software industry operated like NASA.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 28 points 3 days ago

It's 1996 and we have plans for a new telescope game!

2021: finally launches

OK maybe the software industry already operates like NASA.

[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 11 points 3 days ago

At least NASA had built an actual telescope and rocket during all those delays. Star Citizen has consumed hundreds of millions of dollars over the past decade and still doesn't have a game to show for it.

[-] CyberMonkey404@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 days ago

"Well akschually we never needed those nazis, we just didn't want the other company to get them haha"

[-] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

That's why you don't debug and deploy directly

[-] sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 days ago

If you do so, what you shouldn't please write one unit test, failing as long that flag is set.

this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2024
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