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? :P

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.

Batygin, K., and Adams, F.C. You Think Jupiter's Big Now: Lemme Tell You, Back In MY Day. In Nat Astron (2025).

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.

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.

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.

Congrats to you as well! :) Baby is only slightly premature, being induced at 2.5-3 weeks early due to size.

Nice idea.