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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
alpatron@mastodonczech.cz wrote:
@markwyner IIRC this fun fact from my fault-tolerant systems course, they built in a Reed–Solomon error-correction code encoder for a robust connection... the fun being at that time no decoder existed, assuming that in a few years, when Voyager would be far enough to really need the error correction, a decoder would have been developed. And the gamble paid off.