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[-] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago

Voyager 2 is programmed to reset its orientation multiple times each year to keep its antenna pointing at Earth. The next reset is due on 15 October, which Nasa says "should enable communication to resume".

[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

You have to appreciate the resilience of the design, though, it says the probe has an automatic reset every few months so it will hopefully recover in October when the next reset occurs

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

Who hasn't pushed bad code to production?

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Imagine executing the command, immediately realising you fucked up and having to wait 36 hours for the response back from the probe

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

"7373636272811891 rows affected"

Shit....

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

"lie down on floor
try not to cry
cry a lot"

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

yeah, bad code to production, not so much, fix with SQL, uh huh...

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It's always an intern doing this shit

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

I'd hate to be the person who was supposed to review it..

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

I've never pushed bad code to production. None of my unit tests fail*.

* I don't ever write unit tests

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

We don't do that here

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I find it stressful enough doing an update on a remote server (where there's someone in support who can reboot the box if it all goes wrong). It's got to be something else to send commands to a spacecraft that's now light hours away. It's not just that you can't exactly go out and troubleshoot the hardware, it's also that the ping time is rather extreme so you won't know for hours if you've screwed up or not!

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