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Most of the things you listed are plugins which can be disabled in the plugin settings - certainly databases, docker & code-with-me.

Podcasts were arguably mainstream back in 2014 with Serial.


They definitely were, I remember everyone and their grandmother listening to Serial.


The tube follows fixed tracks, which is quite different from cars on a road.


Yeah but look at how normalized it is. All you need to do is slightly misstep, out of the thousands of steps you take, to bump your head on a passing train. You think it’s not possible (part of the trance) but all the parameters are set up so that the slot machine eventually hits the jackpot. You’re 12 inches away from a projectile, and you are to repeat the loop daily for a lifetime. The odds are the odds.


This is why you can run trams in pedestrian only areas and have very few impacts. Trained professional driving it, predictable speed and direction.


I suspect that the user you're replying to was joking


It's Mr Tulip, of Terry Pratchett's The Truth.


Thank you! I was pretty sure it was Pratchett (but not which book and character) but I self censored in case i was wrong :)


Editorial commits are all marked as such and contain no non-editorial changes. The tools for compiling ebook files are available at https://github.com/standardebooks/tools, so creating your own versions with only the work you're interested in is straightforward (and can be at least partially automated).


Unless I'm misunderstanding your comment, this feature is actually included in the latest EAP/beta releases[1]. There is discussion of it at the bottom of the issue you linked.

[1] https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2023/06/intellij-idea-2023-2...


Yes, that's it. Judging from the screencast, I will continue using lazygit for that though. Not a fan of all the clicking. Hopefully there will be a keystroke available for it.


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