ERR_UNSUPPORTED_ESM_URL_SCHEME when running tsx watch on windows and importing using await import(path)

[TheDogHusky]

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[TheDogHusky]

I precedently made an issue (#650) but couldn't figure out the cause of the error, now I figured it out, and am submitting an issue here.

[mvarendorff]

Probable dupe: #345

[mvarendorff]

If others stumble upon this - since the other issue is now closed and locked, I opened a PR in the repro of this issue with two approaches on how to fix this:

TheDogHusky/tsx-issue-import#1

fwiw, this does not appear to be an issue with tsx but node (the same error shows when doing the same setup with node+js).