Lenzi (MalHound)

@malleablehound.bsky.social

Mal
18+ ONLY. NO MINORS.
30, it/its
Hound/Drone #3582
Mechsploitation author, read Exposure Therapy on AO3 https://archiveofourown.org/series/4868218

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@zo-e.xyzReposted by @malleablehound.bsky.social

okay so this anecdote in Margaret's obituary has me crying because this is exactly what it's like being in tech and trying to anticipate failures and having men basically tell you you're being hysterical and then you have to fix it later

"the Lauren error": One day, her daughter Lauren, then four years old, was playing with the command module simulator at the Instrumentation Lab when she somehow activated a pre-launch program, called P01, while the simulator was in midflight - which crashed the simulator altogether. Hamilton created a program add-on in the technical documentation warning users not to launch P01 during flight. She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that's exactly what happened: Jim Lovell inadvertently launched P01 during the flight, causing the on-flight navigational data to vanish. Hamilton and her team were called in to solve the error, and after that her proposed changes were integrated into the program. This was an early example of "defensive" programming, the
@vexwerewolf.bsky.socialReposted by @malleablehound.bsky.social

Okay but an underrated kink is those droneifying or toyifying machines that are like a giant industrial press with two halves that slam together with monster truck force and would absolutely crack your skull like an egg if they were miscalibrated by even a couple of centimeters.

@vespervines.bsky.socialReposted by @malleablehound.bsky.social

Not only I get stressed out about AI at work but now even some of my most niche interests like looking for videogame mods, crocheting, looking for crochet patterns and trying out Obsidian plugins are getting corrupted by AI and it's so damn exhausting

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