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I was hoping this was going to be about patches to code.
by jeffrallen 2y ago
I was hoping this was going to be about patches to code.
- diggan 2y agoMe too, would have been very interesting to compare how a (code) patch looked/was deployed 60 years ago, compared to today :) Wonder what the size difference would be.
- mavhc 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42385393 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42385393 When the only copy of your computer is 15 billion miles away, and the documentation is OCR'd 50 year old printouts, and no one recorded what was patched when
- dylan604 2y agoApollo patches would require new strands of wire, and then literally woven through the proper rings. There was no git push and no CI/CD available.
- domador 2y agoSame here, or patches to malfunctioning systems while in space, such as the Apollo 13 carbon-dioxide scrubber hack.
- rkagerer 2y agoMe too. But I'm not that disappointed.