Don't be hypnotized by the names. What is most significant (after the orbit) is the mass. And that's a pretty smooth gradation (at least on a logarithmic scale).

If you want "planet" to mean "stuff in orbit around the sun", you end up with most planets weighing micrograms...or possibly less.

N.B.: By the strict definition of "planet" used by the IAU, even Jupiter wouldn't really qualify, because it hasn't cleared it's orbit. There's a lot of small stuff and, of course, the trojans.

Yeah, but...
The guess at the size is based on the guess of the albedo. If it's covered with something dark, it a LOT larger. (I'm presuming they're guessing it's covered with methane ice.)

Plausible. Most communicable diseases are addressable by social habits...if you can get people to do them.

I disagree. I think it probably CAN get much faster, but I'm not sure how much cheaper it can get.

The approach I think could succeed is the "bio-chip", with lots of cells and feed lines so different wells in the chip would host different combinations of bacteriophage and sample. This would need to be screened frequently, probably by an AI, that would pick out the most successful set. I think this could, in principle, usually be done within a couple of days in a mostly automated way. But that's a pretty complex setup, and I doubt that it could be done really cheaply.

It's not even that. Most of the drug-resistant bacteria existed before antibiotics came out of the lab. But they weren't a very successful part of the population. Antibiotics killed off their competition, and now they're successful. Most methods of resisting antibiotics have an energy cost, so bacteria that don't use them are more successful if the antibiotics aren't around. Unfortunately, it's not usually a very high cost, so stopping the use of an antibiotic doesn't reset the population, at least not quickly.

But, yeah, bacteria mutate really rapidly to fill a new niche, so you probably literally CAN'T have an antibiotic both in wide use and remaining effective.

Actually, getting the CO2 out of the atmosphere is possible, but *quite* expensive. Thermodynamics + entropy mean it will take more energy to get the CO2 re-concentrated than it released in being created.

Not fair. There are applications for which nuclear appears to be the best solution.

But, yeah, solar and wind scale a lot faster and more cheaply, even when you include the needed storage.

Objects in Mirror Appear Smaller Than They Are (*)

(*) Astronomical telescope joke.

If you're invested in the company, you have a reasonable argument. If you're hoping for a job, you don't. (But see the comment by TWX.)

This appears to be an FPM exploit: https://github.com/KillaBoi/St...

But notice it has to make a huge amount of assumptions about the configuration of the server in order to work. So this kinda sorta underlines the thing you say, assuming the hacker cannot obtain the output of php_info() - it's not unheard of for PHP devs to include that somewhere so they can check what's going on. It makes script kiddie stuff a little less likely, though a hacker specifically targetting a specific installation will likely be able to break in.

I've read various comments about viable this exploit is, and even submitted a link to someone's commentary to Slashdot about how it maybe overblown (https://eliastaylor.com/noexploit/) - The infosec community seems genuinely split on it, and I'm not sure this proof of concept is really going to convince anyone right yet.

The reality is we should probably not have acted as if a nuke went off last week, while at the same time we should patch it on a "just in case" basis. The 4 thing was more serious, and remains more serious given the number of IoT devices that'll accept 4 forever. This, on the other hand, is a good reason to stay up to date.

My suspicion is that all of those comments relate to importing Word documents and templates into LibreOffice. Without LibreOffice full-on ditching their internal DOM and using Microsoft's, formatting changes are inevitable.

The question to me is why they see that as a reason to not replace Word. The obvious solution is import the fucking templates and fix them, a one off task.

Standards, maybe, but features? I'm unaware of any features missing from LibreOffice of note, and LibreOffice has a better UI and discoverability as it supports CUA standards, something Microsoft's Office suites haven't done since the mid-2000s.

Collabra is a full office collaboration suite based on several open source projects including LibreOffice. LibreOffice and Collabra have had an... interesting relationship, despite the latter making probably the largest amount of contributions to it in recent decades.

It's not obscure, it's just you probably don't know the primary output of Collabra's work when you use it.

...and? Are you seriously saying we shouldn't address serious threats to health because there's other serious threats to health?

...says the person who defamed Fauci in the thing being replied to, something that only people who intentionally consume only media that agrees with them knowing full well it lies about 90% of the time would do.

Let me guess: you think children are getting sex change surgeries. You also think that schools are providing sex change surgery for free. You think that there are litterboxes in school classrooms for furry students. You won't fly any more because there's a risk the airplane pilot might be a furry, and that somehow makes them unable to fly. You think cats and dogs are being eaten by legal Haitian immigrants. You think that undocumented immigrants are flooding the polls or even make up a meaningful percentage of voter registrations. Global warming? Ridiculous liberal myth, clearly. Same for the damage CFCs did to the ozone layer. Oh, and that pizzeria Hilary Clinton got her pizzas from has a child rape basement. Sure.

Sound about right?