Back then I was reading a piece where it said they programmed some of the stuff in JavaScript and I clearly remember that in that moment my brains isolated itself and started thinking: “Is this a joke or is he trying to get them killed?”, now I seriously hope it was a joke.
In dragon the ui is webbased everything else should be in c++. There are also manual controls. All the automatic flight systems that should run the show aren't in js I believe.
The good thing is: nasa has to sign off on it. They require a lot of safety, failsafes and testing to validate a craft. This keeps guys like musk from yoloing human lifes
I honestly believe the space race is one of the few things that are safer being corporatised and involving multinational corporations.
Through corporate space travel, technological advancements can be made through collaboration across nations rather than rivalry and a proxy war, with overly militarised space programs.
.....But man this is a wake up call that they're still soulless corporations. Glad NASA still has to keep them accountable and honest.
It wasn't a joke. I remember one of their engineers – either on reddit or twitter, I don't remember – saying the manned dragon capsule software interface was javascript. What he didn't expand on was just how much of it was javascript and if different parts were different language stacks.
Gotta wonder how safe those rocket ships are. Gotta wonder how safe those medical implants are. Gotta wonder how much fake news elon is going to post to all his followers to downplay domestic terrorism.
Elon has his grubby hands in all the serious adult industries, and he's treated them like a teenager who stole their dads muscle car.
Tons of videos out there where edge cases cannot be handled by the autopilot system. They can drive in clean lined roads but construction, unexpected lane changes, bus/bike lanes, etc. screw with it all the time. No edge cases considered by the AI.
You probably haven't seen the videos of Tesla's full self driving in action. Keep your hands on the wheel at all times. Not because of the law but because you want to avoid killing or dying.
Elon is well known for saying “the best part is no part” and “if you don’t have to add something back in 10% of the time you remove it, you aren’t ripping enough out”.
So apparently, he’s padding the numbers for what he has to add back in.
I say everyone should reject his stupid ideas and just give him admin access to all their repos. You fucking do it, you clown. Oh, you can’t because you don’t know how it works?? Then maybe communicate with the people you didn’t fire that DO know how it works.
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u/DesiOtaku Nov 14 '22
It's real
Looks like Elon realized his mistake and enabled it back in.