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by contextfree 8mo ago
Windows now has buttons in win-v (the clipboard helper popup) for this
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by contextfree 8mo ago
There's a toggle in the status bar and the View menu that switches between displaying Markdown as formatted vs. plain text
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by contextfree 11mo ago
Most apps on Windows can already access those folders though, except for UWP/AppContainer apps (which require particular capabilities to access them). I think the same is generally still true of the equivalents on most Linux distributi
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by contextfree 11mo ago
It shipped in an update over six months ago? https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/wind...
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by contextfree 1y ago
Yeah, but all of that was supposed to apply to the Windows 8 start screen also
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by contextfree 1y ago
MS Office isn't single user? It supports real-time collaboration, including in the desktop apps. Though that does require you to keep the files in onedrive or sharepoint.
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by contextfree 1y ago
Yes, and this approach is an extension of the one taken with WinRT metadata which is also ".NET assembly" based.
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by contextfree 1y ago
Windows and Office never adopted .NET for client code in the first place except for the Longhorn period in the mid-00s, which burned them and put them off it. If that didn't stop .NET in the two decades between then and now, I'm n
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by contextfree 1y ago
That's definitely an issue and I've gotten burnt by similar problems when using AI to help navigate and find things in codebases, where I've used it to read and understand code for me, with seemingly miraculous results at fir
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by contextfree 1y ago
The linked document is about how IT admins can manage the filter via policy, which is exclusive to Enterprise/Education. Users can set up filters through the settings UI (on all editions).
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by contextfree 1y ago
It's off by default but still present on the system. You can remove it entirely via the "Turn Windows features on and off" dialog.
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by contextfree 1y ago
Yes, it can be removed via the "Turn Windows features on or off" dialog.
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by contextfree 1y ago
There is currently no policy setting to do this. The available policy settings are "disable Recall and do not allow users to enable it" (which is the default) and "allow users to enable Recall, but leave it disabled by defaul
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by contextfree 1y ago
He started the project while he was still at Microsoft, but since left and continues to work on it independently.
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by contextfree 1y ago
In the broader context, you could look further left: Conception -> design -> compiler -> code review ... If AI tools allow for better rapid prototyping, they could help catch "errors" in the conception and design phases.
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by contextfree 1y ago
The button to do this is labeled as "Share screen with Copilot", with an eyeglasses icon, and invokes an interface similar to the ones for screen sharing in Teams and other video meeting apps. It doesn't mention anything expl
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by contextfree 1y ago
I always thought there might be a place for some kind of ML in OS file save dialogs, to surface likely destination folders based on context.
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by contextfree 1y ago
No, it doesn't use Electron or webviews afaik. The UI is mostly WinUI2/UWP/XAML Islands based however
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by contextfree 1y ago
I don't really know Java, but .flatMap(...) seems to be equivalent to C# .SelectMany(...) which famously can be interpreted as a monadic bind operator. The C# query syntax from x in xs from y in GetYs(x) from z in GetZs(y) ...
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by contextfree 1y ago
Yes. UWP/MSIX+AppContainer addressed this, but inherently impose limitations on what the app and installer can do.
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by contextfree 1y ago
I think there was always a similarity or homology between DRM and many privacy scenarios that people care about: Party A sends information to party B intended for use in a specific context, but wants to limit the risk of it being stored or
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by contextfree 1y ago
You might trust Windows and even actively want Recall and simply not want private Signal messages, specifically, to be captured by it. For the same reason that Recall already tries to exclude browsers in incognito mode, as mentioned by the
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by contextfree 1y ago
Yeah, technically this seems like exactly a DRM scenario: Party A sends information to party B intended for use in a specific context, but wants to limit the risk of it being stored or forwarded for use by other parties or in other contexts
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by contextfree 1y ago
The last comment thread by agocke is interesting. I've thought before that it's unfortunate that LINQ and expression trees were implemented before the move to Roslyn, because if they'd been implemented afterwards they could m
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by contextfree 1y ago
It's me, I'm insane people :) (or was in 2010?) IIRC it was to implement a constraint solver, which I couched in monadic terms somehow, don't remember the details. Not sure if I'd do it the same way again, but I did get
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by contextfree 2y ago
Back when REST was a new hot buzzword and people were debating its true meaning, I remember thinking that some of the arguments for HATEOAS only really made sense if your client apps were going to be some kind of AI graph navigators. So I w
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by contextfree 2y ago
This is from July 2023: https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2023/07/white-house-an...
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by contextfree 2y ago
How does any of that apply to this particular article? Isn't a broader historical perspective exactly what's needed if you want to be free from the immediate hype cycle? One of my biggest irritations with HN comment sections is ho
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by contextfree 2y ago
More precisely in C# a readonly field of a type can only be assigned to within that type's constructor.
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by contextfree 2y ago
IIRC the last couple of releases had some new/overhauled features they said were built for both from the same code, so they seemed to be starting down the path of slowly converging them, before they changed their minds and discontinued

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