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Re:NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B mile... by quietpain on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @03:47AM (#37995925)
Lets hope the _archival_ effort can match or in 50 years time we’ll have another one of these:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_missing_tapes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_and_missing_Moon_rock...

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Re:NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B mile... by shiroiuma on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @04:21AM (#37996173)
Even with those problems, those are still far better than the (complete lack of) documentation I see in software workplaces these days.
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Re:NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B mile... by mdaniel on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @05:41PM (#38006062)
In fairness to the workplaces that I've been in, documentation for a software stack, or even the product, from 18 months ago may as well be in Swahili for as much good as it would do any new member to the team

Just like the comparison to code quality I often see is any such NASA thread: it's a whole different ballgame when one is sending a spacecraft out, or carrying lives to space, than "I tried to send a Slack message and it did a sowweee,oopsiez"

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Re:NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B mile... by chpatrick on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @08:38AM (#37998288)
The missing tapes are definitely one of the saddest engineering stories for me. Such an important moment in history and we just threw it away.
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