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> the maximum that consumer can afford.

but isn't that less for consumers who can afford less?

WPF has a datagrid control now, IIRC it was added in the second or third major version.

"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.

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 commands and invoke APIs from arbitrary .NET assemblies, and then the PS runtime handles all argument parsing (and many other things). But it also lets you invoke and interop with arbitrary command-line executables and then those do their own parsing like they always have.

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.

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 nobody wants to do that because it would mean being pedantic, splitting hairs, etc.

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 the whole thing myself from scratch, which I can do quickly in a typing frenzy because I now have a clear idea what I want, by way of seeing what I don't want.

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 own personal bubble.

I still take a lot of handwritten notes? Sometimes while using AI even

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. (Pen and paper is also cheating!) Calculators and computers have been better than me at this sort of thing for my entire life, so in some sense this isn't a change?

Metal Gear Solid 2 sort of

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 correctness of its result?

That is about consumer copilot not M365 copilot