I conducted an informal survey on Twitter to try to see what things Mac users are adding to the system to make it work better for them:

The responses almost all included one or more of these elements:

Some open source desktops have all these features but the ones that have them all seem to lack the polish and consistency of Mac OS, GNOME, or KDE and require a large investment in researching, installing, and configuring each desired feature. I want a desktop environment like GNOME but with more control over window management and more keyboard control. is built on mutter and there are other desktop shells built on this too such as gala, and Budgie, so perhaps it would be possible to use mutter as the base window manager and compositor and build upon it.

Bloomberg News and other news organizations reported late Friday that the U.S. Department of Justice is preparing to open an investigation into Google’s compliance with antitrust laws. That should terrify Google and every other big technology company — because there’s no guarantee that the antitrust Klieg light will turn on one company alone. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission in 2013 closed without further action its own antitrust investigation into whether Google wielded its dominant web search engine like a cudgel to disadvantage rivals, drive up prices for advertisers and ultimately harm consumers.

The first laser spectroscopic determination of the change in the nuclear charge radius for a five-electron system is reported. This is achieved by combining high-accuracy ab initio mass-shift calculations and a high-accuracy measurement of the isotope shift in the ground state transition in boron atoms. These results are the foundation for a laser spectroscopic determination of the charge radius of the proton-halo candidate .

The smartphone makes a series of soft audible chirps into the ear through a small paper funnel and, depending on the way the chirps are reflected back to the phone, the app determines the likelihood of fluid present with a probability of detection of 85%. To train an algorithm that detects changes in the signal and classifies ears as having fluid or not, the team tested 53 children between the ages of 18 months and 17 years at Seattle Children’s Hospital. After parents provided informed consent, the team recorded the chirps and their resulting sound waves from the patients’ ears immediately before surgery.

After landing, the Fi app informs me that I am in Canada (nice work) and that my data connection will be established in a few minutes. Next up, we have a tablet, the Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Secured by Knox Powered by Android, or SGTS5eSbKPbA for short. Never mind that my phone is months behind on security fixes, but the youtube app on my tablet was a week old, and that requires emailing me.

Many commercially available small wind turbines with plastic blades and steel towers are infamous for their low reliability, high embodied energy, and limited power output. In fact, they have been addressed for more than two decades by Scottish engineer Hugh Piggott, who builds small 1-2 kW wind turbines with 2-4 meter rotor diameters using solid wooden blades. Of course, both approaches could be combined, resulting in small wind turbines with wooden blades, tower and other structural parts.

As much as Reddit had helped me to fill empty time, it exposed a more significant emptiness within me
As powerful as my interaction with the man from the cold case was, my mind kept returning to the fact that it was only a single comment on a single post in a single subreddit on a single day. For a while, I searched for posts through the “New” filter on popular communities that I was subscribed to, so that I could pinpoint a post that I thought would have a good chance of going viral (and would thus get more visibility and traffic for upvotes), and I could be one of the first users to leave a comment, which is another way to increase visibility. After a while, I learned to place my comments well enough to time a post’s ascent to the front page of Reddit, where only a select number of posts appear to millions of users.

The Centre for Cities recently visited Tokyo, Sendai, and Onagawa Town through the Japan Local Government Centre on the Japan Study Tour to find out more about how cities function in one of the most urbanised countries on the planet – and what we can learn from them here in the UK. Japanese homes are cheaper because they build more

Compared to skyrocketing housing costs in many Western cities, Japan has seen remarkable success in supplying affordable housing – even in cities with lots of economic growth. But what Japan’s inexpensive homes and its alternative policy approach prove is that the housing shortage in British cities is not inevitable.

Next I needed to figure out how to call this function, and how to set the channel name to MS_T120. To trigger the bug, i’d need to call IcaBindVirtualChannels a second time with MS_T120 as the channel name. The second packet sent contains four of the six channel names I saw passed to IcaBindVirtualChannels (missing MS_T120 and CTXTW).

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