SpaceX's next Starship flight could test refueling tech

Re:SpaceX's next Starship flight could test refueling tech by colechristensen on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @04:46PM (#38619087)

This is roughly equivalent to watching a developer work and insulting them when their code doesn’t compile. Nobody who writes code cares, that’s just what writing code is like. You could spend a ton more time writing code trying to get it to compile without errors ever, but that would be a whole lot more pointless work.

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Re:SpaceX's next Starship flight could test refueling tech by Kapura on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @07:53PM (#38621188)

Writing software and building rockets are unlike each other in many respects; the cost of small errors being high among them.

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Re:SpaceX's next Starship flight could test refueling tech by nomel on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @10:51PM (#38622420)

> the cost of small errors being high among them

There are some great documentaries about the NASA team that does safety critical software: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJNNJxC12UM

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Re:SpaceX's next Starship flight could test refueling tech by marcusverus on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @11:08PM (#38622533)

There are costs and then there are trade-off costs. In the long run, the trade-off costs of slow-moving perfectionism are FAR higher than the cost of the ‘fail fast and early’ culture at SpaceX.

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