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Re:Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence with NASA via Radio Transmit... by jvanderbot on Sunday November 17, 2024 @06:50PM (#42168414)
The longevity of Voyager has only a little to do with software engineering, and latest software engineering has even less to do with building spacecraft like Voyager.
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Re:Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence with NASA via Radio Transmit... by Dalewyn on Sunday November 17, 2024 @07:27PM (#42168600)
If anything I expect modern software engineering to have significantly higher risks of failure than programmers of ye olde days.

Why? The first step today would be installing Discord[1], the second step would be updating code live 420 no scope[2], and the third step would be figuring out how many JavaScript abstractions are desired.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42162380

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41217037

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Re:Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence with NASA via Radio Transmit... by jvanderbot on Monday November 18, 2024 @10:05AM (#42172945)
I think the pushback is b/c this falls on common stereotypes about modern software being bloated and unnecessarily fragile. Those are justified stereotypes often enough, but spacecraft software is such a different animal that it just doesn't really apply very often.
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