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MinGW and MinGW-64/MSYS2 are just as inscrutable, fragile and new-user-hostile. The fact that you have to choose between MinGW (which has a 64 bit version) or MinGW64 (completely separate codebases maintained by different people as far as I can tell) is just the first in a long obstacle course of decisions, traps, and unexplained acronyms/product names. There are dozens of different versions, pre-built toolchains and packages to throw you off-course if you choose the wrong one.

If you're just a guy trying to compile a C application on Windows, and you end up on the mingw-w64 downloads page, it's not exactly smooth sailing: https://www.mingw-w64.org/downloads/

> Microsoft has now confirmed in a statement to The Verge that it has received this negative feedback loud and clear, and is planning to make some important changes in 2026.

This line isn't in the article or the archived version of the article you linked - where did it come from?

I’m not sure it’s quite fair to call this hypocrisy. Lumo was introduced separately after the Proton Unlimited subscription, and it was never claimed to be included in Unlimited (they also have a handful of other products like Standard Notes that are not included)

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Have you upgraded to the new .mdc file format? I didn't get around to .cursorrules before this format came out, but I'm finding .mdc is reliable if configured well (e.g. with the right file extensions)

This rings so completely true to me. Every time I notice a reproducible bug and try to report it to Apple I'm stunned by how difficult they make the process. Even reporting something as basic as incorrectly transcribed podcasts is an awful experience.

Triaging and categorising bug reports at scale really feels like something LLMs should be able to assist with significantly.

* Practice empathy

Any tips on how to do this? I don't often feel things for myself and it's even rarer to experience empathy at a level I can detect. I meditate to try to better understand and learn to detect my feelings, but haven't made much progress yet (I use Headspace).

Improved caching TFS puts a lot of effort into caching the disk to speed up disk accesses. It uses machine learning to learn patterns and predict future uses to reduce the number of cache misses.

See that does sound like a good idea - I've always observed HDDs with an SSD cache to have a phenomanly useless caching system

It says it right in the article:

"We performed an investigation to identify other potentially similar methods and ensure that our fix addresses [sic] more than just the issue reported," Microsoft said through a spokesman, who answered emailed

If MS had immediately patched CVE-2017-0199, only for someone to reverse the patch, discover an identical exploit somewhere else in the code and commence immediate abuse, people would crucify Microsoft.

From the article, it seems clear that Microsoft scheduled a public release of the patch as soon as it became clear it was being publicly exploited.

Not really, according to the article the sequence of events went

* Microsoft warned in March of active attacks

* Microsoft schedules patch for April 11th

* McAfee sees attacks on April 6th

* McAfee publicly explains how to use the exploit on April 7th

* April 9th attack-kits are publicly for sale

* April 11th Microsoft releases public patch as scheduled

McAfee fucked up here.

HN isn't populated solely by hackers any more. Personally, I like reading stuff like this because it's "bite-sized" and doesn't take very long. It's also simple and clear enough for someone that doesn't have your god-level scripting skills to implement.

Gaming, VR, upcoming 3D and Cortana are a few reasons I can think of why someone might pick Windows over MacOS.

I think you're discounting the performance aspect as well - if workload X is too slow on the fastest mac, it may well still run on a windows machine since they can be specced higher. Cost isn't a factor for everyone - sometimes you literally just need the fastest possible machine, in which case Windows can be it.