jbzfn, 「 Voyager was the first unmanned mission to include distributed computing, partly because the sheer number of tasks to be executed with precision during the high-stakes planetary fly-bys would exceed the capabilities of any single computer that could be made flyable. There was a social engineering angle to this as well, in that it kept the various engineering teams from competing for resources from a single computer 」
tsdower, A thing that makes the #Voyager bugfix so compelling: at no point has "throw more GPUs/nodes/buckets/bandwidth at it" been a solution. Not at any budget.
rzeta0, Voyager 1 did not
- use an LLM
- have a .NET runtime
- use pip package management
- require a vast network of node rpm dependencies
- have subscription pricing for its log management platform
- have a platform
- embed adclick dot com trackers
- check for authentic HP ink
- need a noctua LED cooler
- ...
stux, Sit back, relax and enjoy #Voyager for a bit :blobcatspace:
TheVoidTLMB, What’s an average engineer’s call-out fee for a 15 billion mile fix? #Voyager https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68881369
APBBlue, #Voyager has been chugging along now for 47 years and yet I have to buy a new phone every four years.
BPariseau, Apparently #Voyager's demise has been greatly exaggerated. This is impressive stuff, even by #NASA standards. Talk about refactoring. With 22.5 hour network latency! https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/
floe, Okay, I think what the Voyager 1 team pulled off is one of the greatest feats of debugging in the history of computing 👌
46 years old hardware, 22.5 hours of light delay, and zero tolerance for mistakes. I'm getting nervous tics just thinking about it 😵💫
vsaw, @floe I think the craziest part is how the dev environment looks like. I heard they literally have to go through archives to find the original engineering notes and that there is no working replica of Voyager 1 on earth so very hard to test beforehand.
AGMS00, Read a few of the stories about #Voyager 1’s memory problems, but people don’t say how it was organized.
If the failed chip contained whole words, then just that chunk of memory would fail. If it contained one bit of many words, all those words would be affected.
That suggests a design rule for long running spacecraft - use whole word memory devices so a failure doesn’t knock out even more memory. Same for chip design, put related bits nearby on the chip. Wonder if they have this rule…
zolyguy, @AGMS00 man it’s crazy for me to even wrap my head around. I’m barely even a Ruby programmer I cannot wrap my head around something as complex as working on software for a spacecraft like a light year away with tech from the 70’s
AGMS00, @zolyguy Just requires lots of patience. Lots.
mikepop,
CoolerPseudonym, Hey, they fixed Voyager I!
I bet that was tricky. It’s over 15 billion miles away, 24 billion kilometers. 136.3 AU. Almost nineteen light-hours away. That’s pretty far.
The probe is 47 years old. Younger than me! If I’d gotten my shit together, I could be at least 140 AU out from the sun by now. Well, I didn’t. Another opportunity passed me by.
#Voyager #VoyagerI
jbzfn, :thinkerguns: NASA knows what knocked Voyager 1 offline, but it will take a while to fix | @arstechnica
「 The faulty memory bank is located in Voyager 1's Flight Data System (FDS), one of three computers on the spacecraft. The FDS operates alongside a command-and-control central computer and another device overseeing attitude control and pointing 」
srueegger, German Wenn man seine Kindheits TV-Helden 25 Jahre später in einem Podcast sieht. 😍
helma, Dutch
josep, 🇩🇪 Was sind eure Reiseerfahrungen mit #interrail in der #Türkei ?
🇫🇷 Quelles sont vos expériences de #voyager avec #interrail en #turquie ?
🇬🇧 What are your experiences #traveling by #interrail in #Türkiye ?
expertenkommision_cyberunfall, @josep @solarpunktravel @reisen
Kein Interrail, aber mit Bussen in der Türkei, allerdings >20 Jahre her.
Tolle Erfahrung.
Landru79, Spanish
ctietze, A keyboard tweak I like:
I have a layer where numbers are arranged similar to a num pad.
But pressing the layer toggle key and shift to produce all the symbols I need during programming is kind of annoying.
To reduce these gymnastics, I added another layer with a one-shot layer toggle that exposes the symbols on the same locations of the numbers.
It's really good without modifiers (shift): hit the thumb key, then hit the symbol key, done.
LauraLangdon, @ctietze Yay, programmable keyboards! Mine is similar, but with the symbols labeled directly (like ! instead of Shift +1).
ctietze, @LauraLangdon I was considering this, but didn't know what the computer would actually think this does :)
Can you press ⌥ or alt to get to the weird symbols that lie beneath the numbers?
glynmoody, NASA scientist viewed first #Voyager images. What he saw gave him chills. - https://mashable.com/article/nasa-voyager-mission science is wonderful
thatgiga, Italian
inanedirk, German Das Jahr wird noch laut 😁
#MetalheadConcerts #Disillusion #AnnekeVanGiersbergen #Monkey3 #Pendragon #BadReligion #OrphanedLand #Voyager #Imminence #Wheel #Therapy #Alcest
thomas, German @inanedirk du hast ja echt noch was vor ... :D
inanedirk, German @thomas Der Gehörschutz, den ich heute bestellt hab, muss sich ja auch rentieren! 😂
psa, Voyager may finally be coming to an end: https://crookedtimber.org/2024/02/19/death-lonely-death/
Landru79, Spanish
pmartin, French J'en enfin reçu et configuré mon clavier de chez ZSA c'est un mécanique à touches plates, split, orthogonal en 60%, ultra programmable et portable... Et ben c'est génial (et les coulurs servent vraiment à qqch ici : ça indique le rôle des touches selon la "couche" active.
Maintenant faut apprendre à le maîtriser !
#clavier #geek #zsa #voyagerClavier split (en deux morceaux) dont les touches sont illuminée en vert, en jaune, en violet et en rouge selon leur fonction. C'est la couche de base qui permet de taper Comme avec un pavé numérique (en rouge) et aussi le touche de #onction (en violet)
Clavier split (en deux morceaux) dont les touches sont illuminée en vert, en jaune et en rouge selon leur fonction. C'est la couche De "déplacement" qui permet d'accéder aux flèches (en rouge) et au page up/down ou début/fin(en jaune) ou d'effacer (vert)
pmartin, French @lacraia It was a real dilema for rme between the two keyboards... But I wanted something very compact but the counterpart of beeing so compact (it's not even a 60% !) is that the learning curve is quite steeper.
But who cares : it's exactly what I wanted !
Mastering it will be my Everest... for the 2 or 3 coming weeks 🏔️
lacraia, @pmartin it’s taken me considerably longer for me to master, but I also changed to Colmak mod dh at the same time.
abesamma, My utmost respect to the NASA/JPL engineers who have to debug Voyager 1's cryptic FDS issue with a 45 hour interval between sending the command and receiving a reply, using paper documentation, methodologies, and flight software and hardware that are all more than 40 years old and whose developers are mostly dead. Oh, and with no ground simulator. Incomprehensible.
glynmoody, Humanity’s most distant space probe jeopardized by computer glitch - https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/humanitys-most-distant-space-probe-jeopardized-by-computer-glitch/ just send someone out to switch it off and on again... #voyager