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I was looking online to see what prompted Microsoft to adopt the “.ts” extension for TypeScript source files, when it was already being used for
the MPEG-4 Transport Stream format. I’m pretty sure the latter came first, before TypeScript was thought of.

First I found a GitHub bug report pleading with Apple not to interpret .ts files as MPEG-4 TS, because it played havoc with trying to do TypeScript development on macOS.

Then I found out the same thing happens on Windows as well! So Microsoft managed to screw up use of its own OS with this same confusion.
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On 01/10/2025 08:17, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

... Microsoft [adopted] the “.ts”
extension for TypeScript source files, when it was already being used for the MPEG-4 Transport Stream format. ...

file name suffixes are for the purpose of noting a variant in a
translation or processing sequence/graph.

eg, foo.c -> foo.o -> foo

It _must_ be that it references a role in a contextually nominated process.

It does not and cannot provide a universal discriminator for a type
union. The user's software is incorrectly configured for the user's process.

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On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 23:45:05 +0100, Tristan Wibberley wrote:

The user's software is incorrectly configured for the user's
process.

The user’s machine is a multipurpose one, capable of performing a wide variety of roles, ranging from software development (with TypeScript, obviously), up to multimedia operations (involving MPEG-4 Transport
Stream, among other formats).

In this situation, what would be a “correctly configured” setup for “the user’s process”?
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On 18/10/2025 01:42, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 23:45:05 +0100, Tristan Wibberley wrote:

The user's software is incorrectly configured for the user's
process.

The user’s machine is a multipurpose one, capable of performing a wide variety of roles, ranging from software development (with TypeScript, obviously), up to multimedia operations (involving MPEG-4 Transport
Stream, among other formats).

In this situation, what would be a “correctly configured” setup for “the
user’s process”?

depends on the user's purpose for the computing session. user mindless clicky-clicky?

Is user exploring data they find or are given? open file type analysis
and response-refinement. That could be super simple in general and more tailored in specific circumstances.

Is user doing specific jobs, something suitable for the job they're in.
Have they selected a step in a processing chain that they're working on
having broken the job down into subjobs, then something chain-specific,
etc...

Eclipse has been often used in that way, a job is selected, a
perspective is active, a specific presentation is matched to the file.

All very old and ordinary.

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On Sat, 25 Oct 2025 19:23:27 +0100, Tristan Wibberley wrote:

On 18/10/2025 01:42, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 23:45:05 +0100, Tristan Wibberley wrote:

The user's software is incorrectly configured for the user's
process.

The user’s machine is a multipurpose one, capable of performing a
wide variety of roles, ranging from software development (with
TypeScript, obviously), up to multimedia operations (involving
MPEG-4 Transport Stream, among other formats).

In this situation, what would be a “correctly configured” setup for
“the user’s process”?

depends on the user's purpose for the computing session.

So they have to configure the computer differently for each session?
Maybe even have to log out and log in again to switch modes? What is
this, MS-DOS?

user mindless clicky-clicky?

Poster mindless typey-typey?
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On 25/10/2025 22:54, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

On Sat, 25 Oct 2025 19:23:27 +0100, Tristan Wibberley wrote:

depends on the user's purpose for the computing session.

So they have to configure the computer differently for each session?

Some sessions can be configured the same as the previous, if they're
doing the same kind of things.

Maybe even have to log out and log in again to switch modes? What is
this, MS-DOS?

MS-DOS didn't have log-in and log-out, you ran a command to reconfigure
each time you switched tasks.

Same as mailcap - swap one's mailcap file to suit one's task, then the
standard commands 'edit', 'compose', 'print', and 'see' will change how
they handle files accordingly. It's just a command script away.

The impossible expectation that every code in the world is arranged for mindless clicky clicky is egotistical.

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On Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:23:11 +0000, Tristan Wibberley wrote:

MS-DOS didn't have log-in and log-out, you ran a command to
reconfigure each time you switched tasks.

What if your “task” involves writing NodeJS code to process video
files?
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On 28/10/2025 23:21, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:23:11 +0000, Tristan Wibberley wrote:

MS-DOS didn't have log-in and log-out, you ran a command to
reconfigure each time you switched tasks.

What if your “task” involves writing NodeJS code to process video
files?

list the script files in a directory reserved for interpretation as
script files

list the video files in a directory reserved for interpretation as video
files

when you open the files from your activity interface, the right thing is
done.

if your stakeholder hasn't made it easy, run a file-type guesser on each
file to pre-assign them to their respective directories as hard or
symbolic links. Even configure your viewer program to use a list of pre-decisions if you have to.

I wonder if there's a functioning newsgroup for computer UI topics.

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On Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:33:20 +0000, Tristan Wibberley wrote:

On 28/10/2025 23:21, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:23:11 +0000, Tristan Wibberley wrote:

MS-DOS didn't have log-in and log-out, you ran a command to
reconfigure each time you switched tasks.

What if your “task” involves writing NodeJS code to process video
files?

list the script files in a directory reserved for interpretation as
script files

list the video files in a directory reserved for interpretation as
video files

when you open the files from your activity interface, the right
thing is done.

How would you ensure the right files go in the right place, to begin
with?
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On 31/10/2025 06:49, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

How would you ensure the right files go in the right place, to begin
with?

By more sophisticated methods than a limited number of characters in the
file name

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On Sat, 1 Nov 2025 18:31:25 +0000, Tristan Wibberley wrote:

On 31/10/2025 06:49, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

On Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:33:20 +0000, Tristan Wibberley wrote:

On 28/10/2025 23:21, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:23:11 +0000, Tristan Wibberley wrote:

MS-DOS didn't have log-in and log-out, you ran a command to
reconfigure each time you switched tasks.

What if your “task” involves writing NodeJS code to process video
files?

list the script files in a directory reserved for interpretation as
script files

list the video files in a directory reserved for interpretation as
video files

when you open the files from your activity interface, the right thing
is done.

How would you ensure the right files go in the right place, to begin
with?

Say you were given a bunch of .ts files on a USB stick, or someone was
sending them to you via a service like Dropbox; how would you ensure
that the right files ended up in the right directory?
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