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by contextfree 13d ago
"designed for an 8 note system" *7 note system It's called an "octave" because the 8th note is considered another instance of the 1st.
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by contextfree 25d ago
https://bsky.app/profile/vgel.me calls it "Claudlish" which I prefer because it sounds funnier
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by contextfree 29d ago
This isn't so much a cmd thing as a fundamental Windows API thing. CreateProcess takes in the entire command line as a single string. Powershell is a completely different model where native commands run in-process, you can import comma
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by contextfree 2mo ago
On Windows, UWP was supposed to solve this (by blocking apps from taking focus directly, but having the OS/shell create an app window immediately on launch and give focus to it) but most apps aren't UWP apps.
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by contextfree 2mo ago
Yes, trying to communicate (or watching others try to communicate) about these topics is incredibly frustrating because it's pretty much impossible to make any progress without interrogating people's different definitions, but nob
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by contextfree 2mo ago
Yeah I've written some docs using the following process: 1. Throw some notes, PR links, etc. into copilot and ask for a first draft 2. Go back and forth for a while asking for revisions 3. Trash all of the AI-generated text and rewrite
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by contextfree 2mo ago
But I feel like over the last ~10 years there's been a trend back towards learning more about them (e.g., with Rust and new C# features, or with C++ Win32 programming becoming a cool hipster thing somehow)? Or maybe that's just my
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by contextfree 2mo ago
I still take a lot of handwritten notes? Sometimes while using AI even
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by contextfree 2mo ago
Yeah, I've always tried to train myself to do calculations in my head as much as reasonably possible when learning about mathematical objects, etc. Like when I was learning linear algebra I made myself invert 4x4 matrices in my head. (
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by contextfree 2mo ago
Metal Gear Solid 2 sort of
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by contextfree 2mo ago
I guess the argument is that, while it's the same whether the user asks for "give me page 3" or "give me scrollbar Y coordinate 2160", the user is more likely to do the first or at least to care about the correctnes
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by contextfree 2mo ago
That is about consumer copilot not M365 copilot
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by contextfree 2mo ago
Roslyn API basically lets you plug in to the C# compiler or use parts of it so that you can get the same view of the abstract syntax tree, typechecking, flow analysis, etc. that the compiler does. So it's a way to work with C# code at
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by contextfree 2mo ago
A dumber but related habit I've gotten into is that if I want to use AI to do some sort of refactoring on a C# codebase, instead of asking it to edit the code directly I ask it to write a code transformation using the Roslyn compiler A
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by contextfree 2mo ago
Seeing this makes me think of the controls from the original arcade version of Street Fighter 1.
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by contextfree 3mo ago
Windows has been gradually "undocking" more and more stuff from the main OS install into separately updatable/restartable/etc components for a while.
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by contextfree 3mo ago
The post doesn't really define the problem this is supposed to solve for "builders". FWIW, Microsoft's official attempt at solving this problem? seems to be "Windows developer configs" -> https://
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by contextfree 3mo ago
Windows doesn't have any modern version of .NET installed by default though, only old .NET Framework versions
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by contextfree 3mo ago
They already have this problem, Windows includes .NET Framework 4.x but not any modern version of .NET
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by contextfree 3mo ago
No he was correctly factoring in afterlife time dilation
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by contextfree 3mo ago
WinUI2/UWP was heavily adopted internally though?* Most Windows shell UI and built-in apps use it at this point. * (at least within the Windows organization; maybe not so much in other parts of Microsoft)
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by contextfree 3mo ago
it's a reasonable-sounding inference (if your only context is that there's a "new" Media Player and it's taking more memory) that doesn't apply in this particular case. A joke can be "funny because it&#x2
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by contextfree 3mo ago
I think Groove Music/Media Player is C# though
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by contextfree 3mo ago
1. It does not use HTML/JS. It is a fully "native" app (at least if C# counts as native) written with C# and UWP/WinUI2 XAML. Actually, Xbox Music in Windows 8.x had a web tech based UI; when it was rebranded as Groove M
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by contextfree 3mo ago
The Media Player the article about is a fully "native" app though (at least if you count C# as native). The Windows8.x version (Xbox Music) was web tech based; it in turn was a reskin/UI-layer-rewrite of Zune (which was C++),
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by contextfree 3mo ago
The rebrand of Groove Music to Media Player was a Windows 11 thing, so it sort of did ship a "new" media player. It also still ships the old one though (as "Windows Media Player Legacy")
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by contextfree 3mo ago
This app is a reskinned Groove Music, it was mostly written back in the early Windows 10 days (2014-2017) and long predates Copilot/etc. Even the Windows 11 rebrand as Media Player (2022?) predates that stuff, and it's barely been
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by contextfree 3mo ago
It doesn't use JS/TS, it's a reskinned Groove Music and is all either C++ or C# (I think C#) + UWP/WinUI2 XAML Xbox Music in Windows 8.x was actually web tech based, but was rewritten into C# and XAML when it was turned
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by contextfree 3mo ago
Will definitely try this soonish
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by contextfree 3mo ago
I've been experimenting with vibecoding with a 3D game with no engine, all in C++ with DX11, all-procedural modeling. My experience is you can quickly add a lot of features and mechanics that work semi-well but getting any one feature

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