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[-] Droggl@lemmy.sdf.org 51 points 1 year ago

Have to reboot every 136 years, literally unusable.

[-] akash_rawal@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Gosh, if I ever get into the business of writing software for spacecraft with long duration missions, I have to test for such cases.

[-] Droggl@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I imagine in that line of work, SW must consist of like 99% safeguards and checks of various kinds. Like rather double-check the thing the compiler already proved at runtime than discovering a rare compiler bug in 10 years during a complex oribital descent maneuver...

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