*reminded of the creep who tried to argue to me that Margaret Hamilton's code wasn't that impressive because it had a last-minute bug (god forbid!) and that nowadays you could pilot a shuttle with a smartphone and a Raspberry Pi*

...yeah. :blobbored:

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@Jo I mean you could but you'd have to write the same amount of code

@noiob @Jo no you do not have to write the same amount of code. As we all stand on the shoulders of all the people before us we can use libraries. Use something somebody already wrote.

@txt_file @Jo it's not that simple if you have to verify all the programs you use for reliability and correctness, especially if you're using non-radiation-hardened hardware

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