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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (19 children)

I still cannot believe NASA managed to re-establish a connection with Voyager 1.

That scene from The Martian where JPL had a hardware copy of Pathfinder on Earth? That’s not apocryphal. NASA keeps a lot of engineering models around for a variety of purposes including this sort of hardware troubleshooting.

It’s a practice they started after Voyager. They shot that patch off into space based off of old documentation, blueprints, and internal memos.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Imagine scrolling back in the Slack chat 50 years to find that one thing someone said about how the chip bypass worked.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Imagine any internet company lasting 50 years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IBM is 100, but the Internet didn't exist in 1924, so we'll say the clock starts in 1989. I'm pretty sure at least MS or IBM will be around in 15 years.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does IBM even do anymore? I’m guessing they just support all of their legacy products that customers are locked into.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's basically an investment fund that runs the companies it invests in, like Alphabet, but with a bigger mix of real estate and finance investments thrown in.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What’s a company they invest in?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Themselves. I'm just saying internally they run it like an investment fund. Example: https://medium.com/design-ibm/area-631-what-i-learned-in-ibms-start-up-and-innovation-program-d87ed98f9549

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