Post AlUb5tW9afyTEJvFWS by girlonthenet@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AlUb5tW9afyTEJvFWS by girlonthenet@mastodon.social
       2024-08-30T11:24:08Z
       
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       Fun fact: the code which took Apollo 11 to the moon is available on github https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/Luminary099/LUNAR_LANDING_GUIDANCE_EQUATIONS.agc#L179And if you look through it you'll see that - joyfully - it also includes original comments. My absolute favourite thing about the Moon Code is that it includes comments like this: "TEMPORARY - I HOPE HOPE HOPE"
       
 (DIR) Post #AlUb5vO4dghR1q9pCq by girlonthenet@mastodon.social
       2024-08-30T11:25:52Z
       
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       I just think it's fun to be reminded that not only are humans pretty cool and brave and badass, making it to the literal moon with technology that was less advanced than the phone you carry in your pocket, but that at least part of that was held together by work that was 'TEMPORARY - I HOPE HOPE HOPE'.
       
 (DIR) Post #AlUb5wqTDb0ZYCS16e by girlonthenet@mastodon.social
       2024-08-30T11:27:40Z
       
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       I used to date a developer, and when he was going through a really difficult time - feeling like he was bad at his job and he'd lost the knack for being creatively brilliant with code - I got him a framed photo from the Apollo 11 missions, with this extract of code printed over the top of it. We all have occasional dips into believing we're gonna fail. But our 'HOPE HOPE HOPE' sometimes makes it to the moon.
       
 (DIR) Post #AlW7HYF3uUQOPXURlo by ahnlak@kavlak.uk
       2024-08-30T11:27:46Z
       
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       @girlonthenet speaking as a developer myself, I'm amazed there isn't at least one 'FIX BEFORE LAUNCH' comment...
       
 (DIR) Post #AlW7IMm61wYf8TKXCa by guffo@topspicy.social
       2024-08-30T11:31:24Z
       
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       @girlonthenet I get the fear when I write scripts to automatically deploy software to people at work. I can't imagine the butthole-puckering that writing the code to safely land people on the FUCKING MOON would give me
       
 (DIR) Post #AlW7KKpWERmngPrzTU by mujerespioneras@mastodon.social
       2024-08-30T13:13:46Z
       
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       @girlonthenet Other thing I love about that code is Margaret Hamilton's pic with it 😍
       
 (DIR) Post #AlWQGSwxzvqwq1DphY by jenbanim@mastodo.neoliber.al
       2024-08-30T17:35:33Z
       
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       @girlonthenet I appreciate the people getting up to shenanigans in the issues and pull requestshttps://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/pull/54