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> - Running unmodified Linux programs on Windows This might actually be my favourite use: I always thought WSL2 was a kludge, and WSL1 to be somewhat the fulfilment of the "personality modules" promise of Windows NT.
Personality was an OS aphorism that went longer back than NT I believe. But my memory is fuzzy on this. Edit! Memory unfuzzed: It was Workplace OS, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_OS
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Do you have kids? If not, I agree with you. Make the hard decision and take a loss. And thank you for your sacrifice. If you do, I can't agree with you. Also I wouldn't compare software development for a marketing company with a violent disagreeable effort. There's bad and there's worse, objectively. Anyway, not saying you're wrong, but I'm not so quick to judge someone by a job that they probably hate. Or to wrap 10…
Having kids is also a bullshit excuse. Choosing comfort over conscience is your prerogative but you’re just teaching your kids the same values. Yeah, tech monopolist that enables genocide to contemporary gestapo isn’t an equal comparison. But my point was that you can’t ignore the moral hazards of employment by handwaving “gotta eat somehow”. There are a million ways to feed your kids. Saying you have to work a high…
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Do you have kids? If not, I agree with you. Make the hard decision and take a loss. And thank you for your sacrifice. If you do, I can't agree with you. Also I wouldn't compare software development for a marketing company with a violent disagreeable effort. There's bad and there's worse, objectively. Anyway, not saying you're wrong, but I'm not so quick to judge someone by a job that they probably hate. Or to wrap 10…
Having kids is also a bullshit excuse. Choosing comfort over conscience is your prerogative but you’re just teaching your kids the same values. Yeah, tech monopolist that enables genocide to contemporary gestapo isn’t an equal comparison. But my point was that you can’t ignore the moral hazards of employment by handwaving “gotta eat somehow”. There are a million ways to feed your kids. Saying you have to work a high…
I don't know if that's your intention but that's what I'm reading.
I genuinely hope you don't agree with that reading, because I doubt you'd have a nice life with that outlook. You'd be very unlikable.
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Even with Defender etc off, it is not fun. Lots of small file IO brings it on its knees. Some wants to blame the Windows I/O system, I don't know, but what I do know is that when people choose NTFS it is because they haven't an alternative. Nobody chooses it based on its quality attributes. I dare to say there is no NTFS system that is faster than an EXT4 system. If even MS internal teams rather want to avoid it, it…
NTFS on Linux should be near-par with ext4 on Linux. Remember, I said the _file system_ was just fine. It's that extensible architecture above all file systems on NT that causes grief. The only method to 'turn off' Defender is to use DevDrive, which enforces ReFS, and even then you only get async Defender, it's not possible to completely disable.
With how buggy their flagship OS has become, why would I trust anything else they release to be better? Or even if it does work well now, why should I expect it to stay that way? Microsoft has burned through all possible goodwill at this point, at least for me.
Microsoft doesn't have a very good track record with security or privacy. Maybe it works, but yeah you'll probably get screwed over at some point. Still, the fact that it's open source is a good thing. People can now take that code and make something better (ripping out the AI for example) or just use bits and pieces for their own totally unrelated projects. I can't see that as anything but a win. I have no problem g…
That's a very unfair assessment. In many areas, Microsoft services and Windows are better protected than most alternatives (e.g., disk encryption, virtualization-based isolation,...), and security is taken pretty seriously for new products.
The lack of integrated sandboxing in windows compared to android/iphone is still frankly unacceptable. I've become increasingly paranoid about running any application on Windows (not that your average linux distro is even remotely better) and yet Apple and Google seem to be far, far ahead in user permissions (especially with GrapheneOS, god bless that team) and isolation of processes. Consumers and businesses deserve…
I know we're not supposed to complain about comment quality, but -- I came here to look for interesting technical analysis but instead it's Slashdot level snipes about Microsoft the company. And yes, I also dislike Windows and Microsoft generally but this looks like a very interesting project and I'm frankly frustrated at the level of discussion here, it's juvenile. This has nothing to do with Windows, and it looks l…
I am with you on that. HN is becoming a "14 years old edgy mini-tech" Facebook. "Microsoft bad, Linux good" kind of comments are all over the place. There is no more in depth discussions about projects anymore. Add the people linking their blogs only to sell you thier services for an imaginary problem, and you get HN 2026. It's maybe the time to find another tech media. If you know one, I would be glad to know.
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What a ridiculous excuse. People who join ICE to brutalize minorities and protestors are just trying to feed their families too, then. No? Working for Microsoft doesn’t make them bad engineers or bad people, but it does make them Microsoft employees. And they get to bear its reputation whether they want to or not. If it makes them uncomfortable then they should make a change or grow thicker skin. Oversaturation of th…
> People who join ICE to brutalize minorities and protestors are just trying to feed their families too, then. 1400 ISIS (the islamist state) terrorists who made their way to the US, identified by the DHS. https://www.dhs.gov/wow Look at the list here. 2084 pages already, 12 entries per page: that's 25 000 criminals. They're listing their crimes. 25 000 criminals already arrested is a huge lot. Be honest with yoursel…
If SWAT started driving around gunning people down in the street but every last "victim" turned out to be guilty of murder would that be okay? I certainly don't think so. There's a legal process that needs to be followed.
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Having kids is also a bullshit excuse. Choosing comfort over conscience is your prerogative but you’re just teaching your kids the same values. Yeah, tech monopolist that enables genocide to contemporary gestapo isn’t an equal comparison. But my point was that you can’t ignore the moral hazards of employment by handwaving “gotta eat somehow”. There are a million ways to feed your kids. Saying you have to work a high…
Your commentary doesn't come off as honorable or righteous in any way to me. It comes off as self centered and self righteous. As if we all owe it to you to put you before our children. I don't know if that's your intention but that's what I'm reading. I genuinely hope you don't agree with that reading, because I doubt you'd have a nice life with that outlook. You'd be very unlikable.
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It is a standard in a sense that they will all read it (although last I checked you still need to adjust the default config with Gemini). But feature support varies between different tooling. For example, only Claude supports @including other files.
The "standard" AGENTS.md suggestion for that is [regular markdown links](./like-this.md)
I use this feature often in Claude to bring specific files so that they are in context at all times. E.g. when working on a parser, I will often put the grammar to be always in context. Or if working on a web app, all the model types.