It amazes me that we're able to remedy technological problems on devices that are so old and outdated and so immensely far away. https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/22/world/voyager-1-communication-issue-cause-fix-scn/index.html

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And that they built it with the foresight to allow it to be patched remotely decades later.

Right, they were originally designed for 5 year missions. It's wild.

How do you verify that this actually happened?

How do you verify that I took a shit this morning?

The particle detector I installed in your toilet while you were sleeping

That poor piece of technology πŸ˜–

They literally were remotely patching an ELF binary 😏

A decades-overdue code refactor πŸ˜‰πŸ€£