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Re:We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance co... by foxyv on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @02:03PM (#47679045)
I'm having a really bad Mandala effect right now where I remember some XKCD that wrote a poem about this. Maybe I'm thinking of another comic.
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Re:We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance co... by watt on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @04:12PM (#47680760)
Oh, it's Mandala effect now? I could swear it was Mandela before.
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Re:We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance co... by foxyv on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @07:56PM (#47682873)
I think it was Madnela?
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Re:We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance co... by mindcrime on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @09:38PM (#47683734)
It was definitely Madalaine.
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Re:We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance co... by alexjm on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @06:05PM (#47681948)
Are you thinking of "The Codeless Code" poem about this?

https://www.thecodelesscode.com/case/234

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Re:We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance co... by foxyv on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @07:38PM (#47682739)
Yes! Thank you!
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Re:We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance co... by zeristor on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @10:42PM (#47698734)
From the Editor’s note:

“I tried to keep to Shelley’s unusual (and non-standard) rhyme scheme for the sonnet, but I departed from it in the second-to-last line for poetic reasons. For a language which excels in stealing words from other cultures, English has an appalling lack of rhymes.”

Perhaps with deeper analysis, and a few choice new words this issue could be remedied.

Although that’s a paradoxically tedious engineering solution to improve a languages beauty.

From another angle how comes other languages are more poetic, are they older and have had more time to evolve to be more poetic? Or were the speakers who wrought the language just more poetic.

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