Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder
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#2Decommission. It's not AI ready.
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#3Very depressing to see this next to the "LinkedIn uses 2.4GB of RAM" post.
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#4Very depressing to see this next to the "LinkedIn uses 2.4GB of RAM" post.
Takes a lot of resources to track your users rather than just cruising through space
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#5There’s a lot of LLM text in that article. It’s very offputting.
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#6The thruster fix is the part that gets me. They sent a command that would either revive thrusters dead since 2004 or cause a catastrophic explosion, then waited 46 hours for the round trip with zero ability to intervene. That's a production deployment with no rollback, no monitoring dashboard, and a 23-hour latency on your logs. They nailed it.
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#7It's very distracting to have every sentence in this article be its own paragraph.
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#8Good they launched Voyager 1 before invention of Docker, Electron and NPM projects with thousands of padLefts.
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#9I knew about the memory, but an 8-track tape ? That is a surprise. But when you think of it, what else could you use for this in 1977.
What amazes me is the tape lasted almost 30 years. I knew tapes back then could last a while, 30 years being bombarded with cosmic rays ? inconceivable :)
Re: Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder
#10Decommission. It's not AI ready.
If we wait long enough someone out there will upgrade it and send it back to us.