I use Hammerspoon and a custom ini file to resize and reposition my windows using keyboard shortcuts. That is especially useful on a larger monitor like the 49" Samsung Odyssey G9.

I often place partition the screen vertically: one window in the left quarter, one in the right quarter, and the main window in the center half of the screen, all with a few quick keyboard shortcuts.

My 1999 Audi A6 had a small (maybe 0.05 m^2) solar panel on the roof that kept the AC running when the car was parked in the sun. Even though the AC was running at low intensity, it was able to keep the car at around 25C even on a hot summer's day. Too bad newer cars abandoned this idea (too expensive?) because it was awesome.

It has mostly to do with immigration, which even before 9/11 has always been a bit of a hassle.

A few anectodes from personal experience:

I have waited over two hours on a past trip to the states to make through immigration, just standing in the queue at LAX. I'd expect them make sure to have an appropriate amount of staff ready, since they know exactly how many people are incoming on each flight.

On another trip, I stood in queue together with several hundred passengers, while not a single immigration counter was open (the last person there got out his lunch box and left, leaving the usher who was supposed to direct the travellers to open counters standing their completely helpless). No one was moving *at all* for 15 minutes.

I once got through immigration pretty quickly, then had to wait 90 minutes for my colleague who got detained while the immigration officers rifled through his luggage. No explanations whatsoever were given.

And this is just from personal experience. What we read in the news is also not too endearing:

For some reason they now they want more and more information, like social media accounts, and rumor has it if you ever said something slightly negative about certain politicians, you might be denied entry without recourse.

We've had cases were European nationals where held in jail and later deported, because they weren't sufficiently fluid in english to explain what their travel plans where.

While the likelyhood that you run into one of the more extreme situations is very low, it's not the most relaxing start into what is supposed to be a vacation trip.

Once you're in the country, traveling is usually pretty chill. Personally, I never had any negative experiences, but we heard some pretty horrible stories about how people can get treated if their skin color is a little darker. That doesn't make the place more attractive either.

The US used to be one of the dream destination to travel to, but in recent years, more and more people are turned off by the news coming from there. The world is big and there's so many other places to go to. I guess some effort is required to attract these tourists again.

As beautiful as the US is, the next time I fly over the Atlantic, it will most likely be to visited Canada instead, unless the US government *really* makes a serious effort to be much more welcoming to European tourists than it is now.

I will agree that it's ok to start taxing EVs for road usage when you start taxing ICE vehicles at the same time for their harmful emissions.

This looks like difficult stuff. Age 17 seems very early. When I started studying math at ETH Zurich in 1994, I was 19, and we had barely covered all of this during my earlier school career (but then, we also covered some other topics which seem not to be part of the A level syllabus, see below).

These days, students finish school a year earlier, and few of my students would be capable of solving these problems without some extensive preparation.

But then, here's the crux: How much preparation did you get on similiar types of questions?

I cover a lot of other stuff in my math specialty classes (e.g. differential equations, quite a bit of linear algebra including the classification of conics using eigenvectors, numerical methods for solving differential equations and for integration, spherical trigonometry, number theory and cryptography and more) that's not tested in this test.

So, it's (except for trivial cases) really impossible to compare two math tests from different places and ask "which one is more difficult", if you don't know exactly what's taught in the classroom.

That's nonsense. Who would "rank" schools based on their grade average on a non-standardized test?

A non-standardized exam is not meaningless at all, it provides the students feedback whether they sufficiently understands the topics taught or not and if they pass, tells them that are ready for the next level of education.

Math teacher here (9th to 12th grade). I wouldn't call centrally set and marked exams a blessing. It reduces teaching in classes to "teaching to the test", so you spend all your time practicing again and again the problems that will be on the centrally set exam, which can only test a very limited subset of your overall math knowledge.

Luckily, I can set my own exams and they consist of a good mix of problems the students have practiced (to test if they learned and are able to follow a specific set of steps), problems that are similar but they have to adapt to, and problems that are a little further from the practice problems but can be solved if the general principles learned are properly applied.

A central exam can't do that because it can't adapt to what's actually taught in the classroom, it's the other way around. Central exams change how math is taught in the classroom, because teachers are forced to make sure their students perform well on the central exam, instead of learning math.

Ok, I think the summary and articles are majorly misleading. Not sure where they came up with the "government issued ID", or the 5'000 users (apparently it's a 1'000'000) users, and there's nothing in the proposals about ID. You can check the official government website here: https://www.news.admin.ch/de/n... (article in german, but I'm sure you can use a translation service if you're not fluent).

At first glance it looks like the removal of encryption concerns only encryption applied by the telecommunications provider itself, not by the user (e.g. encryption that is applied by the cell network to your phone connection). It does not apply to end-to-end encryption done by your apps (e.g. messengers, or your own encrypted voice calls, or HTTPS traffic between your and any servers you access on the internet).

As for the democratic process, this is part of a detailed regulation ("Verordnung") that's already cleared by a law that got voted on. Parliament usually doesn't concern itself with these. If the regulation is on conflict with a law, the courts will shoot it down. If parliament doesn't like the regulation, they can just change the law it's based on to render it moot. If regular folks don't like it, they can collect 50'000 signatures and shoot it down at the ballot box.

Saying "Linux runs on Macs" when it's only inside a VM is very much stretching the truth beyond the breaking point. Yes, it runs inside a VM, but that gives you all the limitations a VM has (limited hardware acceleration, usually bridged networking or peripheral access, etc.). For some limited use cases, VMs are a good thing, but Linux does not "run on the Mac" that way.

All the stuff I said remains true, except maybe for the "firmware" thingie, they probably ment to say "driver", but that was a quote anyway and stated as such.

Not sure where you went with the last paragraph, I already mentioned HomeBrew in my original post.

However, don't underestimate the work it takes to create Mac binaries. It's a pain to get all the library dependencies, the process is not always as smooth as it should be, and almost everyone ends up linking statically, which has its own issues.

As far as I know, running Linux on a MacBook is still messy, and requires some fiddling: To quote r/linux4noobs: "Typically what happens is something does not work. You google it. You find that the problem is caused by missing firmware. You google it some more. You find instructions that tell you how to copy the missing firmware from MacOS to Linux."

While I still remember copying my first slackware distro (featuring kernel 0.99something) to a couple of floppy disks to install on my shiny i386, honestly I haven't felt the need to use it on the desktop (my servers still run linux ofc.) since I got a MacBook Pro in 2010. The BSD under the hood fills all my Unix-needs just nicely. Hammerspoon lets me customize the UI enough that I don't miss WindowMaker, I learned to live without "focus follows mouse" and there's not a big difference between typing 'brew' or 'apt-get'.

In short: If you have a MacBook, run Mac OS, on anything else, run Linux.

Honestly, take a test. I recommend this one here:

https://typing-speed-test.aoeu...

Anything above 250cpm is probably "good enough", but just about any touch typists can easily do 300+ without breaking a sweat, and my faster students in my CS classes can usually do 400+ (myself, I rarely reach that score anymore, but then, I'm old...).

Also, error rate should be really low (1-2 mistakes is probably fine, but any more, and you have room to improve).

Since noone mentioned it, the command is

M-x doctor

Thieves are unfortunately a real thing, but it varies by country. It's more common in the south and east of europe. They are not on the train, they are only boarding the trains at the stops for a quick "grab and dash".

The conductors are not cops, they can't do much about that. But you can protect yourself quite easily. Here's what I told my students to do on our night train trip from Zurich to Zagreb last year.

1) Lock the compartment door from the inside.
2) Don't have *anything* that can be grabbed within 1m of the compartment door.
3) If you hear something trying to open the door, make noise / turn on light etc.

1) Doesn't fully protect you because some of these trains are old and the locks are poor, but 2) usually does the job. The thieves only have seconds to get the job done, so if they don't see anything up for grabs, they immediately move on to the next compartment.

My students at first actually believed I was just trying to scare them, but sure enough, after we crossed from Austria into Slovenia, the thieves were there at one of the stops in the middle of the night. However, nothing was stolen, probably due to our precautions.

I have never discovered anything better than c't. While it was arguably better 20 (and 40) years ago, it's stil very very good. If you don't speak german, you can still get their articles through an online subscription and feed them into the translation tool of your choice.