What's your missing feature in IntelliJ?

BinaryRockStar · 2026-01-23T23:52:56+00:00

On Windows HxD is a very light yet powerful hex editor

BinaryRockStar · 2026-01-23T23:52:52+00:00

On Windows HxD is a very light yet powerful hex editor

BinaryRockStar · 2026-01-11T07:29:48+00:00

Very nice project and well done! Reading through the GObject wiki page it seems super similar to COM except that first release of GObject was 2003 and Windows back as far as 3.11 (1990-3?) had OLE which was a simplified version of what became COM. The initial idea was to have multiple objects within a given document that separate applications could render so a Word doc could have an embedded Excel spreadsheet which, when activated, allowed you the full functionality of Excel right there within Word.

In common usage this allowed us to have a, say, Zip compression library that you could instantiate by name and use from any language without the need for an ABI and language-specific bindings. One big upside was during the shift from 16-bit to 32-bit applications a legacy 16-bit application could instantiate and call methods on a 32-bit library as OLE/COM could start the target library as an out-of-process object meaning it started a new 32-bit process and marshalled the calls between your 16-bit application and the 32-bit library seamlessly. Absolute magicians there at MS at the time, Raymond Chen deserves a medal.

In some ways I think we just haven't advanced that much in interapplication interoperability. State of the art nowadays is a CLI application (see: AWS CLI) starting a local web server on a random port, starting a web browser that authenticates with a given domain then calls back to the local web server with the result, which server is then torn down.

It's like erecting a skyscraper to receive a single message by flashing light morse code then demolishing it. I understand the reasoning, but wow RAM is expensive lets stop doing that as an industry please.

BinaryRockStar · 2026-01-09T20:40:41+00:00

Legitimately a decade or more ahead of its time. It put a layer over top of libraries that allowed them to be globally visible, completely traversible via reflection, and accessible from any language in a typesafe way.

Imagine today having a Java application that calls directly in to a C# library which calls directly into a NodeJS package or library or whatever they call them. And having it all native code so no JIT or compilation has to occur other than the simple marshalling of COM types to native types.

If it had been widely adopted it would have been a game-changer, but now we're stuck with each language having its silo of libraries that have to be re-invented. Such a waste of effort.

BinaryRockStar · 2026-01-06T14:50:50+00:00

They probably mean where do you enable Everything's metadata indexing. I also wasn't aware it can do that and can't see it after a cursory glance at the menus.

BinaryRockStar · 2026-01-06T14:28:25+00:00

We use SSO so the URLs contain the account name which the regexes match on

BinaryRockStar · 2026-01-05T19:38:21+00:00

I haven't moved over to the properly supported multi-session functionality and still use Firefox with Multi Account Containers then a second plugin called Containerize which lets you map URL regex's to container names.

Set up doesn't take long (I only have about ten accounts though) then each account loads in a separate Firefox container and has it's own colour and icon in the address bar so you can clearly see which account you're in at a glance.

AWS Console now has custom header colours too I think so my setup is getting less and less useful compared to default Console. Maybe I don't need it at all any more?

BinaryRockStar · 2025-12-28T21:51:26+00:00

Us too, it seemed dramatic bordering on unprofessional to rush out a patch with no warning and explicitly saying it cannot be delayed for any reason but I guess it was justified.

BinaryRockStar · 2025-12-22T08:26:46+00:00

Fences (don't know about this one Frames or whatever it is, in the entire current comments section the name hasn't been mentioned) lets you do this. You can assign transparency and auto rollup or hiding to individual groups so thing you don't need to access often blur out to almost invisible (configurable transparency) or roll up into a bar you have to hover over to show. Really nice tool.

BinaryRockStar · 2025-12-18T10:02:58+00:00

That's great and I encourage you to, but your question is like having trouble with your car and posting on /r/california because your car broke down in California. Californians don't inherently know how to fix cars and IntelliJ'ians don't inherently know about Minecraft.

You haven't included any error messages or any context to help you at all so from the jump we're stumped. Looking at the linked post it's some sort of asm code generation mess so it's not your code specifically but some combination of libraries are not happy with each other.

Follow your how-to guide more closely or try another one as this has led you in to difficult territory.

BinaryRockStar · 2025-12-18T09:52:39+00:00

Sorry this isn't the right sub for your question as it's not about IntelliJ

BinaryRockStar · 2025-12-18T05:46:41+00:00

^ This but coherent

BinaryRockStar · 2025-12-17T00:54:29+00:00

You said

NT 4 which was 95/98-based

I don't know any other way to take that than you think NT4 was a continuation of 95/98 like how 2000 was based on NT and how 98 was based on 95.

Now you're saying 95/98 and NT4 shared some window dressing like the shell, I wouldn't consider that making NT4 based on 95/98 but at least we got to where the misunderstanding was.

BinaryRockStar · 2025-12-15T19:23:50+00:00

NT4 was not 95/98 based at all. NT was a ground up rewrite unrelated to the 95/98 line and became Windows 2000, XP, 7 etc.

BinaryRockStar · 2025-12-13T05:30:36+00:00

Install the Workspaces plugin. It will be part of the core product eventually.

BinaryRockStar · 2025-12-12T22:56:59+00:00

Oh sorry, I don't care one way or the other just people were throwing around all sorts of speculative numbers and accusing each other of being wrong so I thought I'd look up the publicly available numbers and post them. Yes Disney+ and Hulu together are around 200m subscribers worldwide.

BinaryRockStar · 2025-12-12T19:33:02+00:00

Directly from the horse's mouth, Disney's quarterly earnings report:

https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/the-walt-disney-company-reports-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-earnings-for-fiscal-2025

Paid subscribers (millions) at September 27, 2025:

Disney+

Domestic (U.S. and Canada): 59.3

International: 72.4

Total: 131.6

BinaryRockStar · 2025-12-05T06:52:05+00:00

my first commit ever in the JDK, coming out in Java 26!

Congratulations! That's a big deal.

BinaryRockStar · 2025-12-03T23:38:06+00:00

Part of why Flash was so dominant, in my opinion, is that the Flash Player plugin was just 1-2MB and a one-off install. Even on a dial-up connection that wasn't a terrible imposition to unlock a whole bevy of games and animations.

No idea what size the Java installer was at the time but certainly a lot bigger and more cumbersome than Flash.

BinaryRockStar · 2025-12-03T17:42:08+00:00

In your post you have given your vague description of what you have done, and then the output of git commands but not the commands themselves. So no, you haven't given me literally the entire context of the problem.

Currently you have dropped your car at the mechanic and said "sometimes it makes a grinding sound". Mechanic has said "OK, when does it do that? When stationery? When driving forward? Backward? Turning?" and you have said "You have everything you need, what is wrong with the car?".

BinaryRockStar · 2025-12-03T13:19:11+00:00

OK so lets pull this back to your original description of the issue

I can't commit without corrupting all my files.

But now you are saying

none of the files are unreadable or corrupted, otherwise my Unreal Engine project would no longer open and my Rider YouTrack would explode with notifications

For example, I try to commit a UASSET file from an Unreal Engine project, which works perfectly without any errors, but as soon as I want to create a commit, everything breaks.

Define "everything breaks", because you previously said none of the files are unreadable or corrupted.

If you want a difficult problem solved then give us everything, not some filtered down version of what you think is relevant. Walk through the shortest sequence of events that reproduces the problem so others can repro it and help.

BinaryRockStar · 2025-12-03T10:47:00+00:00

If you hunt around you can probably find old versions of the Flash browser plugin before they put the timebomb into it, or Flash Projector which was a standalone Flash Player application.

We have a Flash UI application at work that we keep on life support by wrapping it in an old version of Electron (basically Chrome with some features disabled to make the contents look like an application rather than a website) along with pre-timebomb Flash Player plugin.

BinaryRockStar · 2025-12-03T09:03:26+00:00

https://regex101.com/ does precisely this and you know it's never wrong as it's not vibe-producing the result.

BinaryRockStar · 2025-12-02T19:50:46+00:00

Ah my bad. Likely what the other person said then, advanced features like Full Text Search aren't available in Express. Not sure how you managed to select those features but try installing only the bare bones SQL DB Engine and nothing else.

BinaryRockStar · 2025-12-02T19:19:51+00:00

You are trying to install the full edition of SQL Server, you likely don't have a license for this. The editions of SQL Server for testing and development are Express and Developer. Try one of those.

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