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  • What's some really unpopular opinion you have?

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  • It doesn't need to be an authoritarian government or an evil government as such.

    It would just need to be a govermt that doesn't prioritize fairness and egalitarianism above all.

    If the people dishing out the housing have biases and they're not favourable to you, you're stuck.

    At least in the existing system you have the ability to progress and determine your quality of living to some degree.

    I don't think our current system is good by the way. I just don't think state owned housing is the right medicine. Not unless we can find a way to instate benevolent dictators.

  • Which proprietary software do you prefer over their open-source alternatives, and why?

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  • It's that's fine that you've got some examples of features that are more powerful in JB products. It would be a great shame if such a heavy and reasonably expensive program didn't.

    But I'm not arguing that VS Code is better or worse. I'm arguing that it is comparable (on the sense that it is worth of comparison). Which it is.

    I agree that JB's search is fantastic. Unmatched perhaps. All of that indexing it does when you open a project really pays off.

    But you can get a lot of JB's functionality in VS Code. You can get a very good code inspection in several languages, Python being the premier example. You can also get excellent docker integration, excellent linting, a reasonable search and replace across all files, and a top notch debugging experience for some languages (Python being the premier example again).

    Sure JB products do some of that stuff better (at the cost of being heavier programs with significant start up time).

    I use both. I like both. I believe VS Code is very formidable and could be the sole editor a developer uses flr many types of projects (Web Development, Python projects, many Go projects too all come to mind).

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  • The problem with this idea is, what if the state is controlled by unsavoury people? I know that is kind of a hard thing to imagine, but just humour me and assume it's possible.

    It gives far too much power to too few people.

  • Which proprietary software do you prefer over their open-source alternatives, and why?

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  • Yes, I've made heavy use of PyCharm, IntelliJ and Datagrip and I'm a huge fan of them all.

  • Which proprietary software do you prefer over their open-source alternatives, and why?

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  • Sure. But I didn't say it was either. I only pointed out that it's silly to say "there's no comparison", when most functionality is easily achievable on both. And depending on language, it's not even difficult.

    Edit: In fairness, I did say "it's effectively an IDE", but I stand by the point that after a few extensions - what is the difference? If I can debug, refactor, and and get complete intellisense (including finding declarations etc), I'm doing more or less everything I would in a dedicated IDE.

    Edit 2: I feel I've gone to far the other way. I have used am am aware of some of the capabilities that a fill fledged IDE has over something like VSCode. Especially for languages like those of the C-family. But I do take issue with implying they're not comparable. For many usecases and languages, they're totally comparable.

  • Which proprietary software do you prefer over their open-source alternatives, and why?

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  • That's a bit of a silly statement. Once you've installed a few extensions for your language (a language server and linting at minimum), it is effectively an IDE with a reasonably powerful debugger included. Just because it's modular and not "batteries included" doesn't make it incomparable.

  • The Ultimate-Rare story: 40 years of brilliant British games, from Jetpac and GoldenEye to Sea of Thieves

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  • I enjoyed reading this so much. I am ashamed that I am British and a big fan of video games, but never knew that Rare was a British company. I'd never even heard of Ultimate, but I'll put that down to age.

    Rare made some of my absolute childhood favourites. It's a shame they fell from glory, but it's good to remember that a company is only as good as it's people - and people move on - much like the previously adored Blizzard.

  • Parliament will debate petition: Make lying in the House of Commons a criminal offence - 23rd October 2023

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  • I don't think your /s is necessary. Especially on a UK community where sarcasm is expected by default :)

  • Parliament will debate petition: Make lying in the House of Commons a criminal offence - 23rd October 2023

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  • My understanding is that it was responded to, but not debated.

  • Why did you choose your username?

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  • 170 cm is not big for a man though. At least not where I'm from. Are you from a country with a low average height or was that a typo?

  • Exclusive: Google Pixel Watch 2 to feature UWB, new chipset, and more - android authority

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  • Yeah maybe. But even that is hardly exceptional battery life. And then the watch will be less than 50% by the time you've slept with it.

  • Exclusive: Google Pixel Watch 2 to feature UWB, new chipset, and more - android authority

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  • ...Samsung watch 4, and it was a whole different story. Snappy. Great UI. Great battery life.

    Do we have a different Samsung watch 4? Or a different expectation of great battery?

    I got one last year, and it's my first smartwatch. It lasts one day. Having to charge it every night makes it a burden. Of it hadn't been so expensive, and if I didn't want to get the body tracking It offers, I'd simply leave it on a drawer.

    My friend has a Garmin of some kind. It's bulky, but o kind of like that. He reckons his lasts nearly a week. That would be my idea of great battery.

  • What singer just blows your mind when they sing?

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  • This one is not likely to be popular here, but I have to be totally honest and say: Miley Cyrus.

    Don't get me wrong. I am not really a fan of her or her music (nor am I a hater). But my god does that woman have an incredible voice and a mastery of how to use it.

  • Privacy with Google's Gboard

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  • To those who have been recommending Florisboard in this thread: Thank you. I've longed for a good FOSS keyboard, but always found they lacked enough features that I was willing to compromise and stick with gboard. Florisboard, using the latest beta from IzzyOnDroid, absolutely hits the mark already. It's missing a few features, like word autosuggest, but I can live without that for a while.

  • Your Gmail Account (and other e-mail) Has Unlimited Addresses - Useful For Seeing Who Leaked Your Address to Spammers

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  • I'd rather not dox myself. They're not a huge company. I promise you that this is not something uncommon.

  • Your Gmail Account (and other e-mail) Has Unlimited Addresses - Useful For Seeing Who Leaked Your Address to Spammers

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  • Sorry, I thought the rest was implied. Because the company also sold user data (and stated that in the T&C's). The industry is very aware of email aliases and so it is more valuable to have sanitized data.

  • Your Gmail Account (and other e-mail) Has Unlimited Addresses - Useful For Seeing Who Leaked Your Address to Spammers

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  • I used to work for a product comparison company (think finance and insurance). We used to save the email address as typed for login and also with everything after the plus removed separately. For Gmail and certain other large providers, we also stripped out any dots e.g. a.j.uniquename@gmail.com became ajuniquename@gmail.com.

  • Those of you who shower barehanded: Do you lather and then use your hand, or just shove the soap wherever it needs to go?

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  • I hope to never come in close proximity to your feet.

  • Kindle and piracy suggestions

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  • Took me far too long to realize that there is a kids version of the kindle that you were talking about, and that you weren't just referring to other users as kids.