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Just a little coding oopsie (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Don’t forget this one https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter

An investigation attributed the failure to a measurement mismatch between two measurement systems: SI units (metric) by NASA and US customary units by spacecraft builder Lockheed Martin.

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[–] Bacano 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'll keep it going:

Don't forget about the time Initech had it's credit union hacked with a virus that was supposed to only take a negligible percentage of each transaction but the programmer figured he must have "put the decimal in the wrong place or something."

The group got away under pretty mysterious circumstances...

[–] slingstone 8 points 3 weeks ago

Didn't their corporate office burn down afterwards? Suspicious indeed...

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