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.

Yeah, who wants to eat at HOP?

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Adverse selection. The people who are short enough on cash to seek out a service to pay them 5-20 bucks a month, do not have the disposable income that advertisers are trying to reach.

Dear Twitter:

You are a fun little bulletin board service.

You are not other things.

Hugs and kisses,
The Entire Internet

So use it for the windshields of self-driving cars. Sorted!

And once youâ(TM)ve heated it, the wood has burned away. See the issue?

Dude, it's *ceramic*. If you powder and liquefy it, you'll have mud, basically. Mud isn't a particularly strong material, even once dried.

Gonna guess that your aluminum thingy probably has to be formed at high temperatures. Wood tends to burn under those circumstances.

If your portfolio managed to lose money over the last couple of years, you must have been making some really weird investments.

"The oracle isn't where the power anyway. The power's always been with the priests. â¦Even if they had to invent the oracle."