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.

And here in Canada I worry that the same irrational forces that elected Trump twice and voted for Brexit will lead to new referendums on the break up of Canada in Quebec and in Alberta, leading to the end of this country.

This is an ambitious project. Might I respectfully suggest that you use your favourite AI (or an English-speaking friend) to fix your many grammatical errors and typos? For example "Note: ALL the syntax highlighting of the Rust code is custom and create by me! If you see and bug, please write in the comments or submit an issue." should be "Note: ALL the syntax highlighting of the Rust code is custom and was created by me! If you see a bug, please leave a comment or submit an issue." Also, Rust, not rust. And many more.

That's a good suggestion to OP but as a user, I find it adds character and makes it feel human in an increasingly LLM-polished internet.

That's how I used to feel about spelling and grammar checkers. I was wrong. Maybe you are, too.

Because I didn't really publish it, I didn't check all the grammar and type errors

This is something I will improve when the initial release will come

After that vibe coeded zig book fiasco a few weeks ago, I'm just glad to see this was written by an actual person. I'm sure the content will be improved on with time.

To the author, I appreciate your effort here!

Bleh, I think a typo here and there is fine, you can grasp the meaning, and gives the writing style "character". Yes, it's dire but I'd take that over the soul-less LLM writing style.

And* many more ;)

Thanks ....

It is impossible to verify anything in this article. For example "In recent internal discussions and public remarks". Where are these public remarks? How did this author get access to internal discussions? I rate this article as clickbait nonsense.

Seems based off CNBC's more informative article: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/salesforce-ceo-confirms-4000...

It does seem like Salesforce relies on Agentforce and therefore doesn't need as much support stuff. But the pressure was also to “reduce heads”, which is a bit of a tone-deaf way to describe firing thousands of people.

What bugs me is that it is impossible to buy a TV these days that is not "smart". (Of course I know I can just not connect it to the internet, and I don't, but I wish there was a company in the TV market which would make privacy a selling point).

Thanks for doing this. I am well retired now (from Apple) - so too late for me, but after sampling a few chapters I think every fresh software engineer should read your book!

Too kind! Thank you!

That's due to the retina display. Try fovea.

Just zoom in a bit

Worked on my iPhone