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moqmartoday at 6:02 AM2 repliesview on HN

Fun fact: They also ship curl.exe, which is different from curl in PowerShell, as the latter is an alias to Invoke-WebRequest. That's one of the insanest decisions they could make during one of the sanest ones.


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pjmlptoday at 6:28 AM

Unfortunately the recent decision to adopt coreutils is similarly bad.

Lots of conflicting commands between UNIX, Powershell and classical cmd.

Thankfully it is still optional, not something shipping in the box.

rackptoday at 6:17 AM

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