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Happy 25th deathday to the Mars Climate Orbiter! (sh.itjust.works)
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[โ€“] Kyrgizion 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This makes me happy because while I'm a colossal screwup in every imaginable way, I still didn't crash a multibillion spacecraft due to something that could've been checked and resolved with a checklist and a 2 minute confirmation.

Too bad about the lost tech & research though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Or with some proper static type system with types with units in their programming language.