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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.

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Curious what your head canon explanation is (startrek.website)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Enterprise-D, being a giant showpiece ship had the most bleeding edge holodeck of the era. The holodeck uniquely incorporated a lot of TOS advanced alien technology, which Starfleet engineers mostly understood. Mostly. There were some hiccups.

So essentially they went to space stack-overflow and did some space cargo cult programming? Seems legit.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Space ChatGPT wrote it for them.

And messed up on several innocent looking, hard to figure out, and disastrous ways.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The first rule of programming club is: If it compiles, ship it!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What if it compiles but crashes later on due to memory leaks?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Charge for support

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Did r00ty declare any exception to the rule?

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

Well, the important question is. Does the rule suggest, imply, or require at any point that the code ever even be run?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

ship it!

Literally, in this case.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

In the words of Stargate SG1: “You can't just slap a US Air Force sticker on a death glider!”