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If NASA operated like the rest of software industry (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

https://universemagazine.com/en/space-bugs-seven-notable-accidents-caused-by-computer-errors/

https://www.csoonline.com/article/567417/8-famous-software-bugs-in-space.html

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20230012154/downloads/8-17-23%2020230012154.pdf

also - i rally want to know how old is the screenshot in the last frame, that joke must have been making rounds for some time now 😆

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I rally want

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Be-a-ca-u-se

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

mildly fany.