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They di seem to have fixed this, at least as far as WSL is concerned. If I open a bash shell on Win10 and do `echo foo >/mnt/d/temp/like:this` then I can open the resulting file in…

New Zealand's timezones are full hours, not 45 minutes. You might be thinking of Nepal? (Picky - your broader point is of course right.)

Draft can watch for code changes via a `watch` setting in draft.toml. (Disclosure: I work on the containers team at Microsoft.)

It seems like this relies for some of its safety guarantees on checks in (their fork of) the C# compiler. For example, owner non-copy guarantees seem to be enforced at the C# front…

Auckland has had a few for at least 10 years. They are used for some of the very busy intersections on Queen Street (a busy shopping street that also carries a lot of cars and buse…

"Scanning a cond for me is almost instantaneous." This is a very subjective concern though. Consider the subtype example. For me, reading that 3x3 table, especially with the groupi…

"They are able to do it so well, so quickly because Windows Visual Studio has much of that functionality already in it." I don't believe anything is shared between Visual Studio an…

"Everything is contracted out to Datacom, Catalyst, Frondie, Solnet, etc. etc." It's true that there's a big services sector, especially around government work. But there's also a …

That's fine for US citizens entering the US, but any 'travel mode' needs to work for the outbound trip too. If the country you're visiting has adopted a US-style border stance, the…

Yes, this is possible. The Azure A8-A11 VMs have Infiniband, as do the 'r' (RDMA) variants of the new H series. Azure Batch includes support for MPI-like runtimes although you need…

I think MichaelGG is thinking of the Rotor "shared source" implementation for BSD, which was released around the same time as .NET for Windows as a proof of concept for implementin…

There is a cross-platform CLI (based on Node.js), which runs on OS X and Linux as well as Windows - I don't specifically know if it has commands for opening ports though. There's i…

They've said that the first version isn't targeted as a consumer device. They initially see it as a professional piece of kit for use by, for example, product designers. (At least …

It's resolved at compile time. It's exactly equivalent to the literal "x", but enables refactoring tools to pick up renames, compilers to error if the name is typoed, etc.

Driving up the Whanganui River Road in 2001: Local: "Now, that's a good possum." Me, having missed it completely: "Uh, I didn't know there were any good possums." Local: "That one …

Your comment about changing a field to a property being a breaking change in C# is correct, but in practice, C# programmers tend to use auto properties (e.g. public int Left { get;…

"IIRC ... Microsoft required computer manufacturers to purchase an Office license for every Windows license. As a result, every new computer came with Office installed." I think yo…

Windows has allowed extensions longer than 3 characters for about 20 years now. I'm not sure what you mean by "natively create" but it also definitely doesn't require anything befo…

I passed the "The Counting Kingdom" and "Mathbreakers" links on to a friend for her children (aged 7 and 9). Not only were they enthusiastic about what they saw, but they decided t…

...and, indeed, these XML namespaces (MS Office and data types) and the CustomDocumentProperties tag are already known to be added by SharePoint, and apparently for well-establishe…

It's not that anyone believes "shelf space is running out." It's signal to noise -- or, to be less judgmental, "findability." Sure, SO or Wikipedia have the storage capacity for pe…