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[–] [email protected] 99 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A software patch for a hardware failure.
Sounds like what they do at Tesla, too.

[–] tja 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well it's also what NASA is doing. Only logical if you don't want to dig it out again.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do you mean with the Voyager FDS? There's a big difference between patching a system 30+ years past it's planned mission date because at everyone's amazement it just keeps going and being valuable versus the Neuralink developing issues a few months after being installed when many expected it to fail because of the news of high failure rate among the primate test subjects beforehand.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Well, rocket science is not brain surgery