Seems very conspiracy

I don't think that in 2015 MS had known the AI explosion of the last months, at such degree to base a whole product strategy

I remember in 2014 they did a Linux developer survey, and I was a part of it. In it, I suggested porting over Visual Studio to Linux. Apparently the right person read this and so then we had a follow-up meeting with three other developers, and we spoke more about the idea. I think they sent me a $25 starbucks gift card.

They did not, Microsoft made the bet that there would be some application in the future that would require distribution to all developers. Turns out that application was Github Copilot.

"Why did Microsoft strive for [market penetration] turns out: They want to [utilize market penetration]"

What a novel idea.

Some application in the future, that turns out to be AI? That is some level of hammering a square into a circle as I see it (confirmation bias?). This quickly falls apart, since GitHub Copilot is also available as an extension on intelliJ, and is not exclusive to VsCode. Vscode shines with or without GitHub Copilot, because it also has some other exclusive extension ecosystem that are not opensource but very much a bait to pull Linux devs into windows, their bet on WSL, and exclusive extensions like WSL integration and remote containers extension, literally shows how much they want developers to be in their ecosystem. Vscode is their, bet itself to keep developers wrapped in their tentacles, OTOH Copilot is barely a feature, that allows them to charge subscribers, on multiple IDEs. Copilot is not an exclusive feature that brings devs into their ecosystem, it's just an addition.

I mean they already have published many plugins linked to azure and other services they offer it's not about copilot but they did strike gold with copilot.

You don't think the popularity of atom vs visual studio wasn't the main factor?

Yeah, It's pretty clear to me MS sees the web as the future and they had the big heavy (expensive) Visual Studio and Notepad and nothing in between.

The article even says that they stumbled into this more or less accidentally, but I guess the author didn't want to give up such a great clickbaity title.

Can't take it seriously as the header image is aztec, not even maya

And Maya calendar workings have been known for q long time

So.... How do I exit blender?

Open a new terminal, find the pid and kill it? :-D

Have you checked Foam?

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=foam.foa...

That looks fantastic, thanks! I think it's exactly what I was looking for.

Looks like obsidian as an extension.

I've found quite effective blocking channels and actively informing yt "don't show me more like this"

You

Linkace does all that and self host. Also free auto saving to internet archive.

No worry about a company going defunct or reneging promises down the road

"USB"

Hey just put the files on the usb

added, thank you

I use this font everywhere as well (alacritty, neovim, vscode, etc), I think I've been using it since it was first posted on HN maybe 7 years ago? It's a great font, especially with the differences between O, 0, l, L, I.

My eyesight is bad so I typically have large font sizes (24 for text, 22 for glyphs/icons). One thing I never want to do is "stress" my eyes by having a hard time reading.

One of those fonts that puts the 0 in 3270.