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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

If NASA operated like the rest of software industry

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If NASA operated like the rest of software industry

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago
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    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.

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      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 20230012154.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 😆

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        I rally want

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

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          Be-a-ca-u-se

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          mildly fany.

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