Moose-mousse - Electronic Moose

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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

Most efficient way to catch up:

Ask fellow students for help. If you are part of social groups with more senior students, then ask them too.

I... HATE doing this... I really really do.

If I could in any way, shape or form just work extra hard to get it done instead, I would.

... But it IS still the most efficient way to keep up, sadly :s

April 16, 2024 • Wednesday

It's only the third week of semester and I'm already kinda struggling—

Someone please tell me not to eat things out of spite that make your disability worse (currently having a flare and planning efficient lecture skips for tomorrow and also internally crying)

🎧 Labyrinth — Taylor Swift

"programmers and computer scientists are all trans women" is not true. the truth, from experience, is that if you go into a coding or computer science class there will be maybe one closeted or stealth trans woman surrounded by the worst men you will ever possibly meet.