alt Hacker NewsIs this incident not reason enough? Astronauts in space are needing remote support to debug it, and taking up priceless mission time.
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HeyLaughingBoy • yesterday at 10:34 PM
And that problem would go away with a 30 year-old solution?
Is this incident not reason enough? Astronauts in space are needing remote support to debug it, and taking up priceless mission time.
And that problem would go away with a 30 year-old solution?
Sure, but bespoke software isn't necessarily going to be more reliable.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
> The idea that new code is better than old is patently absurd. Old code has been used. It has been tested. Lots of bugs have been found, and they’ve been fixed.