Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence with NASA via Radio Transmitter Not Used Since 1981

Re:Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence with NASA via Radio Transmit... by sgarland on Sunday November 17, 2024 @08:17PM (#42168849)

I seriously doubt that the average dev today knows more than the average dev in the 70s. In fact, I would happily wager money on it, if it were somehow provable one way or the other.

There are so many abstractions today that you don’t _have_ to know how computers work. They did.

Re: state of the art, you don’t need or want state of the art for building things that go into space, or underwater (closest analogue I can think of that I have experience in [operating, not coding for]). You want them to be rock-steady, with as close to zero bugs as possible, and to never, ever surprise you.

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Re:Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence with NASA via Radio Transmit... by bbarnett on Monday November 18, 2024 @01:26AM (#42170227)

The average dev knows far far less today. Just how deeply people had to know hardware back then is a massive difference.

And if we look at the average dev today, most code is in the framework, or a node package, or composer package, and the average dev gets by via stack overflow or AI.

There are certainly devs that actually understand coding, but the average dev barely does. Most devs don't understand the underlying OS, the hardware, or externals such as databases at all. It's all abstracted away.

And coders back then had almost nothing abstracted away.

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