"Unlike the NT™, system does not feature a separate Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) between the physical hardware and the rest of the OS. Instead, XT architecture integrates a hardware specific code with the kernel. The user mode is made up of subsystems and it has been designed to run applications written for many different types of operating systems. This allows us to implement any environment subsystem to support applications that are strictly written to the corresponding standard (eg. DOS, or POSIX)."
Modern NT builds haven't really been using the HAL the same way either. It's been a pain because windows on arm kernels have been pretty tied to Qualcomm hardware so far.
HAL.dll was intended to solve the exact same problem as device trees. That's why there's custom HAL.dlls for weird x86 but not PC platforms like some of the SGI boxes. Stuff like sure, it's the same processor arch, but the interrupt controllers, system bus, etc are completely different and not introspectable via normal PC mechanisms.
The issue is that WoA kernels have moved away from heavily embracing hal.dll, instead inlining a lot of functions into the kernel that used to be hal.dll functions for perf reasons. If they kept the original architecture it would have been easy, but they've changed it fairly recently to be less portable.
Looks interesting to me - I am using the mouse button on the left side of the mouse which is bound to back by default. That just flickers the login page. Actually clicking the back button on the browser UI works, though (Edge Win10/64).
That was a fun read. I fired up a Valheim server for my kids (and me, let's be honest) and it censored part of the word "Basement" in my server name. :)
Maybe it's you indeed. Spotify shows me Podcasts I should listen to supposedly based on the ones I currently listen to, but... I don't listen to Podcasts, and I don't subscribe to any. I listened to two episodes two years ago on vacation with my girlfriend in the car, and didn't even finish them, and now I need to listen to all this great stuff!
In addition to that:
"Jump back in" and "recently listened" are basically the same list of albums. I have tried to understand the logic behind them, but it makes no sense to me, and could very well be just one section.
I listen two some very much non mainstream media. I do have two or three sections of "please listen to random German Rap, or maybe Taylor Swift, everyone likes that". If they base everything on data, they really should know that this won't make me listen to what they propose, so why do they do that?
Generally very nice, but for me the planetary texture looks doubled, everything is a bit blurry and it seems as if the texture is there twice, a bit offset against each other.
Edge Win10 64.
Try reducing the sun intensity to 0. That's what worked for me as I noted in a comment above:
> The sun intensity makes the planet look weirdly blurry to me. Is that how it normally is? Is that how it's supposed to be? Dropping the sun intensity to 0 made it look more crisp, which is the way I like it.
I just saw that a very typical sheet used a lot in Germany is missing in your awesome offering: Millimeterpapier, i.e. a 1mm grid with slighty thicker lines every 10 mm, in a reddish hue, as can bee seen here: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millimeterpapier - but from there I noticed that on Wikipedia there is already a ton of these PDFs as samples!
It’s funny how paper patterns vary with geography. Across the Baltic Sea, in Sweden, you can certainly find "millimeterpapper", as we call it, but it’s a bit of a speciality item, and I have rarely, if ever, seen anyone actually use it. Especially now, that all graphs are done on a computer anyway.
On that subject, I’m fascinated by the many special-purpose more-or-less-grid papers there are out there. Yet, whenever I see photos of these papers in use, the user does not seem to have used it for its intended purpose, but simply as a random piece of paper. For example, what is the motivation for the "engineer" paper on this site?
That's sounds a bit false to me. The Umlaute (ä,ö, ü) and the "eszett" ß are actually part of the German alphabet[1]. Also it is kinda weird to describe them as ligatures of the original letters and the diaeresis, because while this is what they started out as a long time ago, they are just their own letters now (as opposed to "real" stylistic ligatures like combining fi into one glyph). The advice your kid was told that they can be replaced with ae, oe and ue is correct - it is a replacement nowadays.
C'mon that page is highly technical, really just listing the letters or glyphs used for forming printed text. In reality, if you walk into any first grade classroom you see pictures of the letters A-Z with pictures (Apfel, Bär, uwv) and then after the end maybe around the corner, what, Öl? I can't even remember. When the kids recite the letters they don't recite äöüß. TBH I really only remember this because when kiddo was that age the Neue Rechtscribung transition was mid-process and the parents were angrily divided so I was kinda paying attention.
Also, though it's hardly authoritative, my kids' school taught English through immersion from grade 1 too, and both German and English teachers said "same alphabet".
As bmicraft pointed out, even in that wikipedia chart those inflected letters are spaced apart from the others. Yes, they are letterforms, but not part of the "alphabet" -- they don't even have a sorting like the Swedish Ä or W do.
And you can switch in running text from using the marker for umlaut (dots or bar, not semantically dieresis) or a normal "e" without anyone blinking. There's no problem reading a Swiss book even though ß refuses to cross the border. Though I personally prefer to read Äpfel and Bär rather than Aepfel and Baer, really, they are the same.
> When the kids recite the letters they don't recite äöüß.
On a somehow related side note, I read that "&", which is derived from a ligature of the Latin conjunction "Et" (meaning "and"), was named "ampersand" in English as a mondegreen for "and per se and" as it used to be placed at the end of the English alphabet recitation.
They sure are letters, but they aren't generally thought of as being in the alphabet (which seems to be why they are just kinda tacked on after a space on wikipedia) and get ordered as if they where just the base letter (mostly)
Letters which are sorted separately from what we'd think of as the base characters in English (they appear at the end of the alphabet, as W X Y Z Æ Ø Å, with C often omitted in Norwegian).
By contrast, my French dictionary has énorme nestled between enorgueillir and enquiérir. (Looking for an example does underscore some of the patterns in the language: page after page of ét~ with only a few et~ and one êt~ among them; pages of ex~ with no éx~ at all.)
Similarly in Swedish, W was not considered a letter but just a variant of V, so in phone books etc all the W names were mixed in with V names. This was changed in 2006 due to an increase in English loanwords.
Like all Jewish holidays, Yom Kippur begins in the evening. In 2017, it began the evening of September 29. Information that I can find on SUSECON 2017 lists it as being September 25-29.
Granted, the last day of a conference almost always ends prior to the evening. However, it is completely unreasonable to require a religious Jewish person to be traveling after a conference on Erev Yom Kippur.
Imagine your employer holding a mandatory conference, in a foreign country, concluding on the afternoon of December 24... and then arguing that it doesn't overlap with Christmas.
I distinctly remember that I had some transcription of songs from the ...and Justice For All album that were in a special edition of some guitar magazine from the nineties, and they seemed to be really on point. Later I bought the full official transcription book, and boy was that a letdown. Completely different transcriptions that in parts didn't even make sense (IIRC, I haven't checked in a while).
The really sad thing is I cannot find that old magazine any more, at best it is somewhere in my parents house in the attic in an unmarked box, at worst it got lost while moving. But yeah, that was the first time young me realized these transcriptions were not, in fact, noted down by the musicians, but done by a 3rd party whose listening and guitar playing skill differed a lot from the actual musicians and writers. I approached all other sheet music with a very high degree of caution after that "incident".
I've seen interviews with musicians where they're asked a relatively simple question about the key a song is in or what's going on in a given riff from a music theory perspective, and the response is like "I don't even know what that means man I just play what comes to me". It's definitely not a given that a band would be able to transcribe their own songs, or tell that someone else did it correctly, even if they wanted to. Some people seem to just have an intuitive feel for playing music, which I envy.
There's rough rhythm-only cuts of Justice on music services (I think they were on the last reissue) and it's like listening to an entirely new dimension of those songs. I don't play guitar but my friend does and he was like "none of what we just heard was in that transcription book we had in high school." Heh.
Radiohead have a live piano version of Like Spinning Plates that you can recognise side-by-side but probably wouldn't be able to tell is the same otherwise.
"Unlike the NT™, system does not feature a separate Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) between the physical hardware and the rest of the OS. Instead, XT architecture integrates a hardware specific code with the kernel. The user mode is made up of subsystems and it has been designed to run applications written for many different types of operating systems. This allows us to implement any environment subsystem to support applications that are strictly written to the corresponding standard (eg. DOS, or POSIX)."