and the boys were already ten and eleven years old when I entered their life
I hope you got a good relationship with them! My son can't even talk yet. So, right now, he's just this cute thing that runs around and causes trou^H^H^H^Hgood things to happen.
Well, some of that is for classes for people who can't see that default 3-pixel wide scrollbar on Windows 11 in high contrast dark mode.
Fair. Just making fun of Windows 11.
Yeah, you're blessed to have one of each. Until they start conspiring against you, which you KNOW is going to happen.
ha!
Hopefully we'll raise them better than that. And let them see us honoring our parents.
You charge to "upgrade" to Windows 11? How evil are you?
For all my pro-life ramblings, we were granted only one child.
Precious. I feel bad you couldn't have more though. G-d has been very generous to us.
Keeping up with two toddlers after age 50 can't be easy.
And yet i wouldn't trade it for anything! Thank G-d, we have a lot of help. Especially, when some neighboring girls come by to take our son for a walk. G-d bless them all.
So, my son is around 20 pounds now. At my age, that's heavy. My left shoulder became sore from holding all the time he wanted to be held. So sore, i slept on my right side the last few nights just so it wouldn't hurt. But not only that, my daughter just had her one-month checkup and is at 7lb 9oz. She's also getting heavy. Sometimes, i want to hold her all day, but after a few minutes, i have to give up. She lying on my right shoulder as i type this right now.
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That'll be the day.
To my thinking, the most fascinating aspect of this is how we didn't already know. Humans have had noses for, like, decades now; you would think that (a) we would already have quite a good handle on what they can and can't do, and (b) those capabilities would be intuitively and straightforwardly testable, in equivalent circumstances to how they would be naturally used. It didn't require a great leap of logic to make an eye chart, or to play quiet sounds into headphones... but testing this required nontrivial mechanical and biomedical engineering work.
It seems a little like this capability is "vestigial, but only just". As in, you wouldn't have to backtrack very far through the primates to find one that could do this, knew it could do it, and needed to do it... and despite that we don't really, there hasn't been enough time for genetic bit-rot to set in and screw up the fundamental ability.
They require a browser plugin, and your password manager has to hand off the passkey to the plugin.
That's not how it works, no. The browser asks the server to authenticate; the server gives it a single-use challenge, the browser passes the challenge to the password manager, which produces a response; the browser returns the response to the server. The browser never has the keys that would be necessary to respond to the passkey challenge.
Like handing your car keys to a valet - maybe he's a stand-uo guy, and...maybe not.
It's just the opposite. Every time you paste a password into a browser, you're trusting it (and the site, and any plugins with permissions) not to leak it. With passkeys that is not a concern.
Hahahaha, oh god. Thereâ(TM)s gonna be actual early adopters for this, the poor sods. Theyâ(TM)re gonna have this thing in their head for decades, until they die and get buried with it. And itâ(TM)s gonna keep its value about as well as a Segway-mounted fax machine.
I think it may be in the room, right now.
Babies are delicious, especially when they are yours. I find myself kissing him all the time thinking of how delicious he is. So, i started telling people: I'm not kissing my son, i'm holding back from eating him.
Congrats to you as well!
Oh me, oh my. I'm old and just getting older. But this year i got the best birthday present ever. My son was born just a couple days ago. I can't wait to take him home from the NICU.
Nice idea.
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