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It kind of makes sense

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It was very eye opening

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Just a friendly heads-up

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The truth is out there

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It’s the process

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A simple message

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Facts

The thing people don’t realize about writing is that time spent just staring out the window is CRITICAL

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This.

“Never make fun of someone’s passion because that’s the thing that saves them from the world.”

— Unknown

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trees leaving by Jonathan Galassi

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Imagine meeting someone who wanted to learn your past not to punish you, but to understand how you needed to be loved.

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I would disappear

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moon snail 🌕

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Happy Star Wars Day

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“Please stop destroying what is left of your heart by constantly thinking about things that have broken you.”

— Unknown

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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

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may by Tom Disch

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This is just facts