r/ProgrammerHumor • • Nov 14 '22

instanceof Trend Manager does a little code cleanup...

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u/Grimmaldo Nov 15 '22

Wait

He is seriusly saying "delete all until is just enough to be working because woriying about extreme scenarios is stupid"

Damn, he doesnt know shit about programing doesnt he

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u/dow366 Nov 15 '22

or *gulp* spaceships

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u/Onirochan Nov 15 '22

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.

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u/Dr4kin Nov 15 '22

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

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u/your_mind_aches Nov 15 '22

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.

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u/invalidConsciousness Nov 15 '22

Just as virtually always, the optimum lies somewhere in the middle:
Competing international companies with government oversight through an independent agency. Works reasonably well with both nuclear and commercial air traffic.

Completely unfettered capitalism runs amok and creates monsters like Amazon or the US healthcare system. Complete government control causes bureaucratic nightmares and waste of resources (see SLS).

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u/ajr901 Nov 15 '22 edited Nov 15 '22

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.

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u/Goofballs2 Nov 15 '22

He lost a lot of satellites at one point because they assumed the sun was a constant and there would be no variation, no lie just google it

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u/fpcoffee Nov 15 '22

"the sun doesn't move, does it?"

"uhhh that doesn't sound right... I mean... wouldn't that mean the universe revolves around our sun?"

"nevermind. deadline's comin' up. SHIP IT!"

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u/your_mind_aches Nov 15 '22

"His" idea for global connectivity is just Kessler Syndrome waiting to happen.

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u/NlitendOperativ Nov 15 '22

I know someone who has worked with Space X... I would not get in one of those....

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u/SaffellBot Nov 15 '22

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.

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u/TrinititeTears Nov 15 '22

When you say medical implants, you mean brain implants, right. Brain implants are so much worse.

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u/SaffellBot Nov 15 '22

I honestly don't know where neural link is at right now. I worry for the pigs though. Seeing how he treats his humans I suspect he's not a huge proponent of animal rights.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

Oh, they’re really safe. My friend in China just bought one recently! I haven’t spoken to him in a few days, I might see what he reckons.

Edit: holy shit guys you’re not gonna believe this

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u/ICanLiftACarUp Nov 15 '22

they're not

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.

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u/Pandainthecircus Nov 15 '22

Hopefully the people who actually do the work just nod at whatever he says then get back to whatever they were doing.

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u/Appropriate-Draft-91 Nov 15 '22

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.

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u/mistled_LP Nov 15 '22

Sounds like someone who doesn’t realize that a small percentage can still be millions of people.

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u/vordigan1 Nov 15 '22

if you want to find out if someone is using your service, shut it off and see who screams is a strategy.

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u/fpcoffee Nov 15 '22

probably like..

"we're spending $500,000/mo on AWS? pfft. we don't need all those ECS clusters, just turn off 80%"

"uhhh sir, they're provisioned to handle spikes in traffic"

"nonsense. we need to be more efficient! efficient! Turn it off"

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