• aramis87@fedia.io
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    27 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.

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      27 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.