Programmer Humor

31997 readers

698 users here now

Post funny things about programming here! (Or just rant about your favourite programming language.)

Rules:

Posts must be relevant to programming, programmers, or computer science.
No NSFW content.
Jokes must be in good taste. No hate speech, bigotry, etc.

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

cat_programmer@lemmy.ml

Shiiieeettt....... (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by devilish666@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

19 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (14 children)

They did it once by mixing meters and feets, and crashed the Mars lander.

Edit: looked it up, wasn't actually meters vs feet, but newton-seconds vs some American eagles per gun unit for force

[–] infinitepcg@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

it happened again with the Intuitive Machines lander that landed on the moon last week

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The Intuitive Machines lander issue was that no one disarmed the safety switch on the laser guidance system. (No, really!) Luckily NASA had a backup system installed that ended up working better anyway.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

that ended up working better anyway

Not sure if it ended up working better, as it landed with nonzero horizontal velocity. Though I suppose we'll never know how well the original system would have performed...

[–] infinitepcg@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Pretty much the hardware version of && false

load more comments (12 replies)