Yes. When I was working at Apple, I was developing some animation stuff for Keynote. I came in to work one day, and my build was broken completely. Turned out that Roger Rosner had demonstrated this animation feature to Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs hated it, and before then end of the evening the code had been stripped from the Keynote build.

This rigor is also upheld to the ODM too. This is why we like to work with them, we all come out learning a lot at the end of the project.

How did/do you feel about that?

Good. One of the things I loved about my years working at Apple is that everyone I had dealings with really cared about the user experience.

Was the animation objectively bad? like was it bad for the user and he was right or were you wronged?

Sorry - it was so long ago I really do not remember that particular feature.

I would love to see good animations of a differential gear and a detente escapement.

My most interesting interview experience, but as interviewer not interviewee, was when we interviewed someone by phone and could hear a friend of the candidate whispering answers to him. He was not offered a job. We should have offered it to the mystery voice person.

I am seeing way to many "Performing security verification This website uses a security service to protect against malicious bots. This page is displayed while the website verifies you are not a bot." from Cloudfare these days. It strikes me that, if it has verified my client once, it should hold off at least for a day or so before putting me through that hoop again. How does Bunny DNS deal with bot protection?

I have the same experience, and I ended up removing Cloudflare from the websites I manage since there were too many complaints from users with shared connections or exotic browsers.

Wasn't Privacy Pass supposed to fix this? Let the browser generate and store some PoW or something that it hands off to the site, so each site doesn't have to do the same thing.

https://github.com/cloudflare/pp-browser-extension seems kind of dead (a dependabot zombie).

eta: I completely missed this two days ago: https://www.cloudflare.com/press/press-releases/2026/cloudfl...

Not sure if you're talking about different sites or same one. If different sites, it doesn't make much sense to add that feature because site owners would rarely (if ever) want it. If same site, blame again the site owner who has the ability to configure challenge cookie expiry.

For those who need some context: In 1983 David Warren published a paper describing an abstract machine that could be used as the target of a Prolog compiler. This machine became the basis of most Prolog compilers - it is much faster than interpreters. His paper was not easy to understand. Hasan Air-Kaci's book was a brilliant exposition of Warren's work, and was a must-read for anyone serious about working on Prolog interpreters or compilers.

Note that this is Professor David HD Warren. As opposed to Professor David S Warren, who led the XSB Prolog team. Which is built around the Warren Abstract Machine.

Knuth's Optimization Principle: The computer scientist Rod Burstall had a pithy way of saying this: "Efficiency is the enemy of clarity"

I don't know what country your ancestors came from, but I assume you are not held responsible for any horrible thing that government does.

I am curious. If it is on the far side, where does the light come from for the photos? Other stars?

The moon is tidally locked with the Earth, which means the same side always faces the Earth. So, for example, when the moon is between the Earth and the sun, the far side (from the perspective of Earth) would be fully illuminated by the sun.

The “far side” of the moon refers to the hemisphere that can’t be seen from Earth.

Yes, and right now is full moon, thus the far side is only illuminated by stars.

It isn't full right now. It's a waning gibbous, so the far side is a waxing crescent.

Well, mathematically full moon is only a infinitesimally small split of a second. When I made the comment it was about 12% waxing crescent thus 88% in the dark. And actually darker than a full moon because the earth does not light up the far side.

I wonder why they decided on that timing? If it were better illuminated by the sun, couldn't they get some better photography?

They want to fly by at lunar sunrise as the shadows help see depth better. Also, they have very sensitive cameras (up to 3,280,000 ISO!); the Earth photo the other day was taken at night, so you can see how they'll be able to get detail even in the dark parts

640 ISO ought to be enough for anyone.

My guess is that this mission is not about imaging the far side of the Moon at all as that has been done already.

Fair, but these images are going to get a lot of public attention, so making them good ones would be worthwhile.

This is a vehicle test, not a sightseeing trip. Photography is not the priority.

current 2nd stage is underpowered, so it has to be compensated by 1st stage right from the start

and since launchpad is in the north hemisphere, Moon has to be at the south part of its orbit

The social media team.

And a little bit by asteroids like 20 Massalia and comets like 24P/Schaumasse.

The sun. The moon always shows the same side to Earth, so the far side has phases just like the Earth-facing side does. When we see a full moon from Earth, the far side is a "new moon"; when we see a new moon, the far side is full. And so on for the other lunar phases.

The sun still. It's just that that side never points towards the earth, but it still gets sunlight. Same as how the side we see isn't fully lit except during a full moon.

The other well publicized photo they did was of the dark side of the earth (it was night), so same idea(?)

The sun

And lying: "Please listen carefully as our menu items have changed". Only once did I get what everyone should use instead: "Please listen carefully to be sure you make the right selection". (Lying is also normalized by "I have read and agree to ....". Maybe better would be: "By clicking this box, you are agreeing to our needlessly lengthy terms, whether or not you have read them."

Sumerian and Akkadian are two different languages. This tablet is written in Akkadian and is dated in the Akkadian era. The authors claim is that the tablet is a [translated] copy of a much (much) older Sumerian tablet. Apparently the author's theory is not taken seriously by assyriologists or ancient science historians.