Comparing one of the worst disasters in NASA history to Micro$lop bugs is a bit silly, no?
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You’ve misunderstandood what a PCD is. They are mission devices, assigned by NASA, used to access mission data and communications. They are called “personal” because they are assigned to specific astronauts rather than shared equipment. They didn’t bring their own laptops from home. That’s why they were receiving tech support from NASA to address Micro$lop’s buggy software.
Kind of ironic to be speaking about ignorance.
School is about learning, not efficient production. When people work together, they help each other learn.
It also isn’t efficient to assign the same already solved, trivial problems to every person, redundantly. If it were for production, everyone would be assigned novel and different tasks.
The only thing I remember from the ethics lecture for my CS program was being distracted by other classmates who were using the time to cheat on assignments for other classes by sharing code solutions with each other via USB.
Which was pretty dumb because the program encouraged group collaboration on assignments anyway, as long as you weren’t just taking others’ work as your own. They could have just worked together 🙃
Technically still solar power, but with the moon as an additional mirror in the system.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Ageless Linux - Software for Humans of Indeterminate Age
33·1 month agobenevolent non-compliance
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•This is why we can't have nice things.
127·4 months agoWithout reverse engineering, there is no security. No way to find new bugs and vulnerabilities or confirm it’s backdoor free. Just blind trust only.
I’m talking the cheddar that’s been in the fridge too long and has some spots on one end. I just cut off a generous portion and still eat it anyway unless the cheese itself tastes badly of mold
But cutting around the mold on cheese is fine, right? Right???
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•This one goes out to Dennis PragerEnglish
20·5 months agoBut he just checked!
The program goes through the collection of numbers and prints each one after a delay of milliseconds equal to that number: “Print the number 20 after a 20 millisecond delay. Print the number 5 after a 5 millisecond delay. Print the number 100 after a 100 millisecond delay… etc…” effectively sorting the collection because the numbers will be printed in order from smallest to largest.
This is a clever (but impractical) way to sort a collection, because it does not require comparing any of the elements of the collection.
Yeah, I suppose after a billion billion billion or so years, it probably would be
Black holes aren’t “dark”…
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Who cares about time complexity
252·6 months agoI’d accept that “smart code” and “clever code” are 2 different things
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Who cares about time complexity
1211·6 months agoWhenever you sit back and smile proudly to yourself about how clever the block of code you just wrote is, your next move should be to delete and rewrite it.
This is a clever block of code! Great job, now rewrite it to be sane 😂
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•You're Welcome, Grandma!English
80·7 months ago👍👍 Oh yeah I’ll try this in the next argument with my girlfriend, thanks science
furby hancock
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Bingo of Awful IT Processes
4·8 months agoWorse than 1 hour standup and 4 hour planning:
1 hour daily standups and 30 minute planning meetings.
I’ve been on a team that consistently congratulated themselves on how fast and smooth planning is, when none of the stories would have acceptance criteria or real descriptions at the end of the meeting, and then we’d have to spend tons of extra time during daily standup actually figuring out wtf the work was

It’s a meme posted to a shitposting community lol