Far side != Dark side

One is the domain of humanoid cows, the other is the domain of absent fathers.

It’s approximately the dark side when the moon is full, which happened two days ago.

Yes and (IIRC) they don't want to flyby while at full moon on the far side as to have some shadows to help differentiate the terrain

> It’s approximately the dark side when the moon is full, which happened two days ago.

Who downvotes that? It is true.

Edit: maybe you can illuminate why you downvote?

I'm sure it's the flat-mooners downvoting.

The moon IS flat! Just like the Sun and the Earth.

Well, the Moon, Sun, and Earth are all flatter than most surfaces in my house, and I call those surfaces flat, so yeah...

The phrase never meant dark as in "unlit". It has always meant dark as in "occult".

It is this week. Which is interesting because the photo in the clip is the familiar near side -- I recognize the bunny.

Far side from Earth can be not dark.

Far side from Sun is always.

The point is that we are all Earthlings, so the former applies.

The point is not running Windows or Outlook on a PC in space. The point is that the Software was not sealed, downloading upgrades while in space, sending telemetry back to Microsoft (or to whoever else). Those PC are like any other instrument onboard the spacecraft: it's status needs to be known and predictable by NASA.

Not to talk about the amount of unknown and unpredictable extra traffic caused by those PCs onto the "space internet links" which can easily clog any other communication.

And not to talk about smartphones.

This is actually rocket (and space) science, not the horse market fair!

Hope that the `metered connection` option was toggled on.

Lol.

Windows update in space has to be a banned torture method.

Not just space. There was a time around 2000 or so when US military tanks were running Windows NT and they did what one would expect, BSOD Blue Screen of Death. No idea if that ever resulted in casualties.

> it's status needs to be known and predictable by NASA

Ah yes but do you think MS gives a flap about this?

Same thing with the recent Fedramp certification. "Hey they're using it so we might as well certify"

Well, it is the other way around actually: NASA should not give a flap about MS tooling, and naturally avoid it completely. Whoever thought of having an Outlook or even 2 out of all the things on there should look for another job, because they clearly cannot be trusted with astronaut lives.

One is Russian malware and the other is Chinese ;)

Microsoft beleaguered a federal agency which pretends to be a lot larger than it is (and has a lot of help doing it) with nonresponsive filings. The employees of that agency, FedRAMP, referred to Azure as "a pile of shit" but ultimately approved it anyway.

   https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-cloud-fedramp-cybersecurity-government

It's hard to find hard numbers (I looked), but in the "FedRAMP over 10 years" chart partway down in this article FedRAMP themselves claims to have approximately 25 employees, which (I infer prior to DOGE) was augmented to approximately 80 staff with contractors.

   https://www.fedramp.gov/2025-09-30-fedramp-built-a-modern-foundation-in-fy25-to-deliver-massive-improvements-in-fy26/

That's how it should be everywhere!

You can finally run your own local, self‑hosted, or on‑premise Docker, Maven, npm, and PyPI repositories with Repsy - completely free and open.

It does make a whole lot is sense. The amount of energy you loose to convert AC to DC can be humongous . And useless if you produce your own power (normally already in DC).

Don't connect TVs to the internet as they are actually computers programmed to serve ads.

Actually, don't buy TVs at all. Buy books.

Why? I consider myself almost human...

Jokes aside, how can we discern between AI-generated and NI-generated textual contents?

And even if we could, for how long?

Reality is that AI is changing everything. Whether for the good or for the bad it's something to check.

Very good idea. Clearly no software, no LLM, no AI could ever use that character!

It's a big move. But I understand it.

Sometimes your code is "just" a proof of concept, a way to test the idea. Very far from a decent product.

That is the time you ditch the code, keep the ideas (both good and bad) and start over.

This. Depending on the project, especially if you're doing something really novel, you can end up going down dozens of dead-ends which, when removed, leave little scars all over the code base.

It can be so refreshing making that decision to open the old code on one screen and a fresh project on the other and do it right from the start.

Indeed.

Incredible guy!