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Voyager 1 is so far away that it takes 22.5 hours for commands sent from Earth to reach the spacecraft. Additionally, the team must wait 45 hours to receive a r
by pjot 3y ago
Voyager 1 is so far away that it takes 22.5 hours for commands sent from Earth to reach the spacecraft. Additionally, the team must wait 45 hours to receive a response.
I’m guessing “hotfix” commits don’t exist in this domain
- bee_rider 3y agoI guess it is nitpicking, but I hate the word choice they’ve selected there. The “additionally” makes it look like the 22.5 and 45 hour problems are two different things, instead of the natural result of a round trip.
- huytersd 3y ago[flagged]
- NoToP 3y agoI hold this comment in contempt
- bee_rider 3y agoI disagreed with the comment but I’m surprised somebody bothered flagging it.
- BobaFloutist 3y agoI don't think you should use the phrase "viscerally hyperbolic", I think it overstates the degree to which their comment communicates an excess of emotion. Instead, consider saying "I don't hate it, but I don't love it" to express agreement with the sentiment, but disagreement with the degree.
- idonotknowwhy 3y agoEveryone's experience is subjective. Maybe they really hated it. I also hate the wording, it threw me off for a few seconds and made me lose min train of thought until I realized the author simply doesn't know what the word "additionally" means.
- chmod775 3y agoPerhaps the phrase "I don't hate it, but I don't love it" doesn’t fully encapsulate the nuanced spectrum of emotional response. Might I suggest employing "I harbor a moderate degree of equivocation regarding this matter"? It articulates a position of neither fervent advocacy nor staunch opposition, akin to balancing on the fulcrum of a metaphorical teeter-totter, oscillating gently between the poles of approval and disapproval. (I think ChatGPT has you all beat)
- mholt 3y agoThe use of "additionally" is weird here. A full roundtrip is 45 hours. It doesn't take 22.5 + 45 hours to receive a response. 45 = 22.5 + 22.5.
- 83457 3y agoShould it have been additively?
- gwill 3y ago'Therefore' would have worked
- bagels 3y agoIt's an additional fact.
- orphea 3y agoThis is why this use of the word, while correct, is weird.
- mortallywounded 3y agoIs it though? If it takes 22.5 hours to get there, the response is another 22.5 hours. It's not a new fact, it's a universal limitation.
- ClassyJacket 3y agoThen they should start every sentence with "additional"!
- radicalbyte 3y agoThere was me thinking that the signal processing took 20 hrs but it turns out that whoever wrote that article has little grasp over physics.
- whoopdedo 3y agoThe NASA press release is written: "In addition, commands from mission controllers on Earth take 22.5 hours to reach Voyager 1, ... That means the engineering team has to wait 45 hours to get a response" The CNN writing looks uncannily similar but without the same meaning. I'm not saying it's machine generated, but I won't say it isn't.
- passwordoops 3y ago"Tepidfix" if I were on the team. But that's probably why I'm not on the team...
- quickthrower2 3y agoping needs to be reconfigured to be tolerant of the higher latency.
- catchnear4321 3y agoand yet likely more than a few people will be sweating for close to two days.
- tills13 3y agoJust SSH into the box. Easy.
- mike_ivanov 3y ago> I’m guessing “hotfix” commits don’t exist in this domain well, actually... https://thenewstack.io/nasa-programmer-remembers-debugging-lisp-in-deep-space/ https://thenewstack.io/nasa-programmer-remembers-debugging-l...
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