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You're correct, but only for fertilized eggs. Unfertilized eggs are single cells.

Nitpick maybe, but I don't think oocytes are the largest cells, it pretty much has to be some sort of neuron. A sensory neuron for eg. someplace in the foot will be almost as long as the person is tall, and even if the neuron is extremely thin, it's gotta beat the oocyte for volume.

No, the "quote" (more like anonymous anecdote) is quite literally about blood running in the streets presenting an opportunity to buy assets at reduced cost.

I did the " Separated by a Common Flame" puzzle (you're doing something funky with copy/paste so I had to right click to copy the title and all the clues).

It's fun, but I have some pointers.

1. Try to follow NYT's cluing rules, like plural clues always have plural answers. I was tripped up by "Bark pieces soaked before scattering over coals (8)" having the answer WOODCHIP.

2. It's very difficult. I solve NYT pretty handily 7 days a week, and difficult crosswords in Swedish too, but I ended up using 21 hints, and not only because I rushed. The lack of crosses makes it a lot harder to get a lock on the grid.

3. There was some questionable cluing in general, like "Shredded cabbage side at every British barbecue (8)" for COLESLAW, which I would not consider a particularly British side, and "Shallow inflatable pool beside the barbecue (8)" for PADDLING. Omitting the noun for that type of compounded adjective-noun word is fine I guess but felt clunky.

I like the gimmick itself though!

Turns out it is exactly that, the OP's post has an update from them:

Thank you for your comments. We just wanted to confirm that all Moleskine notebook covers are created by our designers, while AI was used to enhance the background of these images. We hope The Lord of the Rings inspires you!

Cool, throughout this entire read I was thinking "I'm gonna save this, it reads a lot like dynomight". And then at the end it turns out it was dynomight all along. I guess I should read headers more carefully.

Sorry, but you seem to be implying that European public owned media outlets are not normally to be trusted. Why?

I started out writing a list of European countries with high quality public broadcasters, but the comment started looking silly since the list quickly grew very long.

Seems to be true-ish:

"The $27,000 wasn't decisive, but it was an omen that things would get better," Smith said about the gamble

After his blackjack win, Smith was able to raise another $11 million, the magazine reported.

[1] https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/fred-smith-fedex-blackjack...

Agreed, broadly I use the same apps, and they either stagnated or got worse like the author mentions. And it kind of says a lot that the stagnated apps are the ones I like most.

Isn't this an egregious headline for such a neutral article? I guess it's just clickbait, but I haven't previously found Politico to be this extreme.

And the article itself describes the actual setup accurately in one of the opening paragraphs, so clearly the author knows the facts:

The site lets visitors compile a mass email warning about the bill and send it...

And most of the other headlines on their current front page are quite boring and descriptive.

Wow, this is both really fun and very technically impressive!

Driving over + drone footage: https://youtu.be/KOVdu6dhxXU?t=197

This resonates hard with me. At work I slave away under the edicts of the biome linter and I haven’t been able to articulate very well why I hate it so much. I think it comes down to your neighborhood analogy, it feels like consistency is enforced not just on the outside of my house, but inside as well, and I am effectively blocked from making any design decisions it does not agree with. Its opinions are not necessarily bad, but at least half of them I would have preferred to treat as guidelines. (Yes yes, I can //biome-ignore but that is not my idea of a cozy living room nook).

It feels good to see someone finally make this argument on the internet.

Thank you, that’s very kind.

In a literal sense, I agree with almost everything you wrote. He does not want to directly make the claim that he believes affirmations are magically affecting reality. He aims the text at people predisposed to certain types of woo. And he wants to convince those people to try his other type of woo. He doesn't say what he himself actually believes.

Where I differ from you in my take on this is that I also weigh what isn't there. He doesn't provide any form of alternate explanation. Nowhere does he say anything that comes close to "I don't believe that affirmations work this way" or anything of the like. I also don't agree that his hedges clarify anything, rather they muddy the waters.

He presents a thesis, presents other people's arguments for that thesis, presents no arguments against, and then explains that he lives his life in a way consistent with believing in that thesis. The hedges fill one function: to make it harder to argue against him. If the arguments aren't his, the chapter stands even if the arguments fall.

To me, that is basically arguing for the thesis, but in a roundabout and quite defensive way. What other point would you say that that chapter conveys?

If it's possible to control your environment through your thoughts or steer your perceptions (or soul if you prefer) through other universes, I'll bet the secret to doing that is a process called "affirmations."

Even more interesting was the suggestion that this technique would influence your environment directly and not just make you more focused on your goal.

I don't know if there is one universe or many. If there are many, I don't know for certain that you can choose your path. And if you can choose your path, I don't know that affirmations are necessarily the way to do it. But I do know this: When I act as though affirmations can steer me, I consistently get good results.

I'm not the person you replied to, but I would say that "He basically argues that our thoughts can influence reality" is a fair description of these quotes and the rest of the chapter around it. Some of it is him referencing what other people told him, and he certainly hedges his statements a lot, but I certainly read it as him believing that his affirmations are directly influencing reality.

This article reminds me of this excellent tongue-in-cheek piece of writing by Jonathan Zeller in McSweeney's:

Calm Down—Your Phone Isn’t Listening to Your Conversations. It’s Just Tracking Everything You Type, Every App You Use, Every Website You Visit, and Everywhere You Go in the Physical World

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/calm-down-your-phone-isn...

You put it better than I could have done myself!

My post was truthful, useful for both me and the potential employers, and I know it's what linkedin is for. Objectively, I did nothing wrong. And still I was really embarrassed by it, and deleted it after I landed a job.

I just really don't like tooting my own horn. I was raised to prize humility, I guess it's quite common in Sweden.

I did this a few years ago and the winning recipe was a shameless (i.e. deeply shameful) linkedin post where I pretty much just summarized my skillset and explained that I was looking for a senior engineer equivalent of a summer internship, with no chance of extension.

Got me 3-4 offers. None of the offering companies had ads out for roles like this, so this was pretty much the only way.

You only have to use CORS to remove restrictions: if you do nothing, maximum security is the default.

This is only true if you see CORS as a tool only to prevent reading data. I personally find it to be a useful tool to prevent writes, because the Origin header fulfils several of the purposes of a CSRF token. But that requires work on the backend to not actually perform writes unless the CORS parameters are valid. That sort of security is not the default (which is probably good)

I think it's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_ad-supported_streaming_te...

That is exactly what they are offering:

  I’m also delighted to say that subscribing to The Verge delivers a vastly improved ad experience — we’ll get rid of all the chumboxes and third-party programmatic ads, cut down the overall number of ad units, and only fill what’s left with high-quality ads directly sold by Vox Media. It will make the site faster, lighter, and more beautiful — more like the site we envisioned from the start, and something so many of you have asked us to deliver.[1]

I have a similar home-cooked tool at https://semestra.limbe.ro but ended up using Nager.Date instead, and it has better coverage for Sweden at least: https://date.nager.at/Api I liked the online-first approach since it means you get new or moved holidays without a package bump. The downside is of course if you want an offline-first approach.

Should maybe be merged into: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41499666

Sensationalized title from Griffith University's news site. The study itself may be a better link?[1]

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-06749-9

Seems like you could, since it has an attribute and a pseudo class to select on. document.querySelectorAll("[popover]:popover-open") should select all visible popovers. AFAIK uBlock uses regular CSS selectors.

Wow, this is really cool, thanks for sharing. I've always liked the idea of a home phone, rather than personal phone, for all sorts of things that belong to the house and not me personally. This pushes it one step further, will definitely try it!

The person you're talking to is mistaken, the use of Postnord is not defined in law, it's contractual. The Swedish government has a centrally negotiated contract with Postnord to do all of their deliveries, and Transportstyrelsen did not believe they were authorized to break that contract – even with the strike causing Postnord to not live up to their end. It makes sense to me that the court system was needed to decide that the contract in practice is void in situations like this.

This article has a very naïve take on a complex issue. It does seem like not all mechanics are on strike, but also appears quite obvious that there is some number of them on strike. Not sure if the author knows much about Swedish unions and how strikes tend to work here.

The transport workers union has announced a sympathy strike, stopping all loading and unloading of Teslas in Swedish harbors, so regardless of one's opinion on the matter, the strike is far from over.

https://da.se/2023/10/splittrat-stod-for-teslastrejken-parti...

https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/fackets-hot-stopp-for-tesla...