Tim Holy: I had hoped you learnt to be more careful with untested versions. See what happened this time around: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/oct/20/bad-day-for-space-probes-one-lost-on-mars-another-in-safe-mode-at-jupiter?
On Wednesday, September 24, 2014 at 5:27:52 PM UTC+2, Tim Holy wrote: > > "Sorry, sir, but our Mars probe crashed. It's a complete loss." > > "Oh no! Why?" > > "Well, just before it was about to dock, Tim Holy tagged a new version of > Images. Turns out it had a bug in it that prevented the cameras from > saving > images to disk. So we were flying blind. We tried rolling back to an > earlier > version, but recent changes to Pkg meant that `pin` wasn't working either. > So > we hit the planet." > > "Next time, don't run master." > > --Tim > > On Wednesday, September 24, 2014 08:12:35 AM John Myles White wrote: > > Not that I’m aware of. I’d say the thread is probably off-topic. > > > > — John > > > > On Sep 24, 2014, at 8:10 AM, Stefan Karpinski <ste...@karpinski.org > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > Is there any evidence that Julia was used to accomplish that? > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 11:05 AM, John Myles White > > > <johnmyl...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: I think this is the > flight to Mars that > > > India just finsihed. > > > > > > — John > > > > > > On Sep 24, 2014, at 8:04 AM, Stefan Karpinski <ste...@karpinski.org > <javascript:>> > wrote: > > >> I have no idea what this is about. Can you clarify? > > >> > > >> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 3:47 AM, K Leo <cnbi...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > >> for the wonderful achievement with Mangalyaan! > > >> > > >> With a budget less than a Hollywood movie, I bet they must have > largely > > >> used (and supported?) open sources - Julia included? > >
