Since the last update it has been impossible to hide the most visited sites. I don't know if it's some temporary sick joke by the chrome team but I need to remove it.  I have tried changing my home to something other website, this works for when you first launch chrome but not for opening news tabs.
Does Google Chrome has anything similar to about:blank page in IE and Firefox? I did not find any suitable page mentioning this? PS: I tried about:blank but it looked like Chrome is trying to load something before showing blank page...
How can I tell what version of Linux I'm using? Often times I will ssh into a new client's box to make changes to their website configuration without knowing much about the server configuration. I have seen a few ways to get information about the system you're using, but are there some standard commands to tell me what version of Unix/Linux I'm on and basic system information (like if it is a 64-bit system or not), and that sort of thing?  Basically, if you just logged into a box and didn't know anything about it, what things would you check out and what commands would you use to do it? I want to write a query like this:  SELECT o.OrderId, MAX(o.NegotiatedPrice, o.SuggestedPrice) FROM Order o   But this isn't how the MAX function works, right?  It is an aggregate function so it expects a single parameter and then returns the MAX of all rows.     Does anyone know how to do it my way? How do I create a Java string from the contents of a file? I've been using the idiom below for some time now. And it seems to be the most wide-spread, at least on the sites I've visited.  Is there a better/different way to read a file into a string in Java?  private String readFile(String file) throws IOException {     BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader (file));     String         line = null;     StringBuilder  stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();     String         ls = System.getProperty("line.separator");      try {         while((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {             stringBuilder.append(line);             stringBuilder.append(ls);         }          return stringBuilder.toString();     } finally {         reader.close();     } } Often in fantasies involving magic casting spells requires a certain physical or mental toll on the caster. I don't recall any mention of spells being physically or mentally taxing in the Harry Potter universe.  Does this mean they can cast an unlimited number of spells in a given day without any negative effect to themselves? How do I disable the guest session? Xbox Game bar after uninstalling UWP and disabling UAC It looks like the  update  from Microsoft.  I have  and  UWPs as much as I can, along with Cortana and Edge.  Yet today I saw a weird green bar popup saying something about "Press Win + G to bring up the game bar".  I figured it would have to do with the Xbox UWP app, which I have previously uninstalled.  I presume this is UWP functionality, but I'm not sure how to find out for certain.  Can this app or program exist outside of the UWP ecosystem?  Is it a part of the Xbox app?  What method(s) are there to remove it?  Is there a prophylactic to prevent such things in the future?  I'm currently stuck in Windows Home, even though I  (not me, but gives you context).  I will be fixing that sometime soon. Center figure that is wider than \textwidth I have a figure that is wider than the \textwidth of my document. (I don't want to change the \textwidth.) As a result, the leftmost part of the figure is flush with the left margin, while the rightmost part spills into the right margin too much. I'd like to center the figure, so that it will exceed the \textwidth equally on both sides. I'm unable to upgrade Xcode 11GM to 11.1 for some time on my Mid 2014 MacBook Pro running macOS Catalina. I've installed Xcode from Mac AppStore ages ago (IIRC circa 2014), and upgraded step by step since then. Currently, I'm experiencing the following loop:   AppStore reports that I have an update. I open AppStore, open updates, click "Update" on Xcode. Mac Downloads ~2.5GB first. Installs that patch. Continues to get the full package (~7.6GB). It starts to install. After some churning and install, it reports "Cannot download Xcode now, please try again later."   I have more than enough space on the disk, and nothing is modified in Xcode or in the OS (no homebrew or something similar).  Did anyone experience something similar? Are there solutions to this? Why does the reputation need to be publicly displayed? The Monster Manual describes Lair Actions as occurring "On initiative count 20 (losing all ties)..." (p 11).  What does "initiative count 20" mean? I can't find that phrase anywhere in the PHB or in any other context in the MM... Amongst the reasons for starting a bounty, one can select:     Reward existing answer      One or more of the answers is exemplary and worthy of an additional bounty.   Why not enable one to reward excellent questions in a similar manner? Mysterious cord running from wall. Safe? My wife and I are preparing to sell our home and are discovering some weird things. Our home was built in 1958, so it is older. We found this in a corner that had some furniture in front of it.   We are wondering    What kind of wiring is this?  Is it safe to handle or remove? I don't understand the fact that let's say hypothetically I was pushing a block on a frictionless surface, and I kept applying the same force on the object how it would keep accelerating! Wouldn't there have to be a certain velocity where it would stop getting faster? If not then what is actually acting on the object to cause it to accelerate infinitely? Why doesn't grep using pipe work here? I have the following command:  find / -name libGL.so.1   Which returns lots of lines with "Permission denied". I want to exclude such lines, so I added the following:  find / -name libGL.so.1 | grep -v 'denied'   But the output is the same - my grep -v 'denied' is not filtering out the lines with Permission denied. I've tried many variations, looked over grep tutorials, but I cannot figure out the problem. Any suggestions? Let's assume that one has some HP printer and/or scanner and checked its support status on the corresponding page of HPLIP site - .  So one have the following information: the device Model name, Min. HPLIP Version and Driver Plug-in need.   What should one install to make Ubuntu fully support the HP printer and/or scanner? What's the main difference between int.Parse() and Convert.ToInt32 What is the main difference between int.Parse() and Convert.ToInt32()? Which one is to be preferred How to render a background image in 2.8? Define additional math operators to be typeset in roman How do I depower overpowered magic items without breaking immersion? Consider a "wavefunction" $\psi(x)$, which has a Fourier transform $\tilde \psi(p)$  Suppose that we know, for each $x$, $|\psi(x)|^2$, and that we know, for each $p$, $|\tilde \psi(p)|^2$.  Have we enough information to reconstruct the "wavefunction" $\psi(x)$, that is, obtain the phase of the "wavefunction" for all $x$ (up to a global phase, we are only interesting to the relative phases between the $x$)?