How We Diagnosed and Fixed the 2023 Voyager 1 Anomaly from 15 Billion Miles Away
22 points by river
22 points by river
This was excellent.
The only copy of the code being a microsoft word document that was badly OCR’d from a hard copy is funny. I’m often surprised by the important data that we’ve lost already, for example I think some early doctor who episodes were wiped by the beeb so they could reuse the tapes and are now missing.
Previously, on Lobsters…
Wow. Pretty incredible story. And I thought I had it bad, in terms of legacy code and inadequate documentation.