I thought the title was clickbait, but no, he really did fix it! Nice
I fixed Windows native development
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#322Earlier quoted context omitted.
I noticed Visual Studio 2026 doesn't have an LTSC release yet. Any idea when that will come out?
They've completely reworked release plans. 2026 LTSC will come out a year after the initial VS 2026 release (at the same time as VS 2027) and be supported for 1 more year. You pretty much have to get on the rolling updates train for the IDE, which is why the C++ toolchain now follows a different schedule and you're supposed to be able to install any specific toolchain side by side.
So in this new Microsoft world, “long term” means “one or two years, depending on how you count”? Ohhkay.
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#323I don't understand, just use scite editor with tcc. About a couple of megs download, no install required and your apps will run on everything from win 98 to linux with wine. And if the answer is c++ support then you get all the pain you deserve using that cursed language
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#324Earlier quoted context omitted.
> python in another realm here as well uv has more of less solved this (thank god). Night and day difference from Pip (or any of the other attempts to fix it honestly). At this point they should just deprecate Pip.
Ah yes let's all depend on some startup that will surely change the license at some point.
pip is really bad though so UV has a long ways to fall before you aren't still net better off :^)
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#325Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps people have mimicked the style because LLMs have popularized it and clearly it serves some benefit to readers.
> have popularized it It's hated by everyone, why would people imitate it? You're inventing a rationale that either doesn't exist or would be stupider than the alternative. The obvious answer here it they just used an LLM. > and clearly it serves some benefit to readers. What?
I think that the style itself is very clear and has its advantages, it's hated only because it's from LLMs, which are not liked when used without judgement (which is often the case).
So, someone who falls on the side of not completely hating LLMs for everything (which is most people), could easily copy the style by accident.
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#326Earlier quoted context omitted.
I never understood this sentence structure, it adds zero information, it always goes like: “This isn’t just [what the thing literally is]; it’s [hyperbole on what the thing isn’t].”
The purpose isn't information, the purpose is drama. Er, sorry. I meant: the purpose isn't just drama—it's a declaration of values, a commitment to the cause of a higher purpose, the first strike in a civilizational war of independence standing strong against commercialism, corporatism, and conformity. What starts with a single sentence in an LLM-rewritten blog post ends with changing the world. See? And I didn't eve…
This is actually the scariest part. Because lately even authors and creators who are not using LLM are starting to pick up some of these ways of expressing themselves.
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#327Is this post AI-written? The repeated lists with highlighted key points, the "it's not just [x], but [y]" and "no [a] just [b]" scream LLM to me. It would be good to know how much of this post and this project was human-built.
Have you noticed that your username is literally "its_notjack"?
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#328> The build.bat above isn’t just a helper script; it’s a declaration of independence from the Visual Studio Installer. I am so fed up with this! Please if you're writing an article using LLMs stop writing like this!
Humans invented writing, not LLMs. They are copying us not the other way around. You can’t jump on 1 sentence that vaguely sounds like an LLM and say it’s written by AI. It’s so silly. I understand the aversion to AI slop but this is not that.
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#329Re: I fixed Windows native development
#330Why not just use Linux?
To play devils advocate, Linux does pose some issues as far as a stable platform base. They don't even guarantee glibc compatibility afaik.