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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There is even a LEGO set commemorating this image.

[–] JetpackJackson@feddit.org 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] hoch@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
[–] JetpackJackson@feddit.org 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

And the coat rack, for some reason

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

And the coat hanger lol

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It's part of a set with 3 Vignettes celebrating women in historic tech moments.

Here is a picture of them from my wall of nerdy shit

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 days ago

Solid taste in nick nacks

[–] bonenode@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Is that a Q thermos?

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] red_tomato@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago

I see post mentioning Margaret Hamilton. I upvote.

[–] iatenine@piefed.social 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)
import RocketScience rs

rs.goto(moon)
[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "app.py", line 8, in <module>
    import RocketScience 
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/RocketScience/__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
    from .core import initialize
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/RocketScience/core.py", line 22, in <module>
    libc = ctypes.CDLL("libc.so.6")
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/ctypes/__init__.py", line 364, in __init__
    self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
OSError: /usr/lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.34' not found (required by /usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/RocketScience/core.py)

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How did they do it without AI🤯

[–] four@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They obviously failed to get to the Moon, duh. Now with AI we will get there faster and better ✨🚀

/s, just to be safe

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can just ask the rocket to not explode.

[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 day ago

Computer says no.

[–] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It's wild to think but our phones literally have the processing power to run this program

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Your phone charger can run that

[–] Skysurfer@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 days ago

Millions of times more processing power than that code needs to run, at that.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

Home computers from the mid 70's like the Apple II could run it. Computer hardware evolved rapidly.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 8 points 2 days ago

That is such an adorable and proud smile. I love it. She looks exactly like one of my nieces too. Excuse me while I have my old man moment.

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 4 points 2 days ago

The coat rack behind her mimics her stance

[–] ardentengender@toad.social 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

@PugJesus How many lines of code is that? A paper pile is not a metric that tells me anything! :D

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

145,000 lines of code, but about 4x that is included in that pile in documentation.

REMEMBER TO COMMENT YOUR CODE

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)
  • not sure what this does but everything breaks if we remove it
[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

LGTM

[approve]

[–] Liz@midwest.social 1 points 2 days ago

Printed letter paper has about 80 lines per page. Rough numbers let's call it 100. That makes for 1,450 pages. Let's double it by assuming lots of page headers, comments, half-filled pages, etc. So 3000 sheets of paper. A ream of paper is 500 sheets, so we're looking at 6 reams. A ream is about 4 cm thick, but let's call it 5 since there will be air and creases and whatever. So 30 cm gets us to about a foot high for our code, all printed out.

I'm pretty sure my original question was correct, this isn't the code. I'm pretty sure it's the debug output.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's my understanding that that is the the debug output from the program, is it not?

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah there’s no way the primitive computer from they had on the Saturn V’s LEM could even store that amount of code! This was before hard drives!

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Pretty sure I wrote more code. Can also confirm some of it works.