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"We appear to be entering a period of Windows' development where we can expect new features and tweaks to come to the operating system several times a year. "
This scares me. Every significant update (according to Microsoft) has a tendency to reset some settings back to their defaults. Oh joy.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Like any spacecraft, the telescope has encountered micrometeoroids and its sensors have detected six deformations on the telescope's primary mirror panels that have been attributed to strikes. Well, it was nice while it lasted
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Webb, we hardly knew ye.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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The article says the telescope is still functional, although its data will be less accurate.
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HAL 9000 said: This can only be attributed to human error.
I assume (== hope) that NASA et al.'s statistical model for hits took into account that the L2 point would tend to collect (and lose) debris at an enhanced rate...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I'm willing to wager that they took that into account.
The article refers to them using computer modelling to predict the possible strikes, and it says that the modelling was wrong.
Sort of boosts my confidence in climate models, to be sure.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: computer modelling
Imperial college? 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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It does NOT say the model is wrong.
Quote: "It is not yet clear whether the May 2022 hit to segment C3 was a rare event," the document said.
There could be a chance that it was "an unlucky early strike by a high kinetic energy micrometeoroid that statistically might occur only once in several years" the NASA team considered.
But potentially "the telescope may be more susceptible to damage by micrometeoroids than pre-launch modelling predicted".
A strike this large and this early in the mission is something the model says is unlikely. Either there's a lot more crap floating around L2 that all the other telescopes we deployed there[^] were lucky enough to avoid the worst of, or Webb threw a handful of dice and got all 1's.
The other probes at ESL2 have ~30-40 years of combined operations time; so either Webb has has a really bad luck first few months, or everything else has had decades of good luck. One of these is more likely than the other; unfortunately it's not the one that allows writing overwrought headlines. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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I think the more important take-away is that we may need to rethink long term human habitation repair plans for deep space.
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Space, JetBrains's take on containerized, remote development environments, is now available on-premises as a beta for all organizations that prefer to have full control over their tools instead of relying on third-party Cloud services. For those that want to go to space, without the clouds
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New internal documents released Tuesday detail how three of Big Tech’s most prominent companies favored their own products as a means of stamping out competition. Don't take minutes during the conspiracy meeting
I was going to use another Wire quote here, but:
- I figured I've used my quota of quotes for the day
- it's a little non-PG
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If anyone is shocked by that news, their head has been so far up a certain orifice that they no longer know what roses smell like.
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This falls under the "No Sh!t Sherlock" concept. Companies always favor their own products over the competition.
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It will make it easier to contribute to the Windows Community Toolkit, try out new features still in development, and cooperate together on the development process. "Stand back: I'm going to try science!"
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The findings of the survey revealed that over half of organizations value security above the experience of end-users, often at the expense of productivity and customer satisfaction. I'm using the wrong half of software it seems
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Didn't another report say 70% of organizations didn't prioritize security at all?
I guess that does explain user experience.
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If you're still running Windows 8.1, Microsoft says it's time to move on. That's probably the first time those machines have been updated in a while
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The European Commission allegedly transferred data to Amazon servers in the U.S. two years after it outlawed that exact practice. Who will regulate the regulators?
Quis regulabit regulas? Or something like that. It's been decades since my Latin classes.
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Hardly surprising. No different than COVID rule makers.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Quis regulabit regulas?
Google Translate: "quis moderabitur moderatores?"
(Who will moderate the moderators? I'll stop here before this verges over into Soapbox territory.  )
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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StereoKit is an easy-to-use open source mixed reality library for building HoloLens and VR applications with C# and OpenXR! "Life's the same, I'm moving in stereo"
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I can't help but think of Phoebe Cates when I hear that tune. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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There are worse problems
TTFN - Kent
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Yes, yes there are.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Users can create with DALL·E using free credits that refill every month "How can you expect then to understand my pictures when I myself, who am their 'maker', understand them as little?"
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