[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 50 points 2 weeks ago

Please don't give me reasons to try cocaine because I can definitely get that easier than Concerta

[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 49 points 2 weeks ago

Those are Great

[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 63 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What-is-a-perpetual-fallback-license

You're both half right.

You get the version at the time of your subscription (plus bugfixes). Then every time a version has been out for 12 months while you've been paying you get that version perpetually (plus bugfixes).

So it's 1.0 when you subscribe, you get that perpetually.

It's 1.0.1 in your third month, you get that perpetually.

It's 1.1 in your fifth month. You get that perpetually after 17 months.

It's 1.2 in your eighth month. You get that perpetually after 20 months.

You unsubscibe at 19 months but retain a perpetual version licence.

  • You started with 1.0
  • You ended with 1.2
  • You have to roll back from 1.2 to 1.1

Previous version was incorrect. This is why I just distribute our licenses, not procure them!

[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 49 points 2 months ago

Do you genuinely not know how to crop an image? Or just link to wherever you found this?

[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 52 points 2 months ago

It was 3.6 years after? And it was pretty dead at that point. Like it was popular with a core group who were making Niantic and TPC tons of money, but the phenomenon was dead by the anniversary.

[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 66 points 3 months ago

"Nine eleven what's your emergency?"

"Hi, I'd like to report a nine eleven."

"Oh jeez"

[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 76 points 3 months ago

Americans reinventing coffee houses that aren't Starbucks be like:

[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 48 points 3 months ago

The issue wasn't using the dates. The issue was the computer believing it was now on those dates.

I'm going to assume you aren't old enough to remember, but the "only two digits to represent the year" issue predates computers. Lots of paper forms just gave two digits. And a lot of early computer work was just digitising paper forms.

[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 67 points 5 months ago

This, Starfield winning 'innovation', Cities Skylines 2 winning 'strategy' - pretty sure the infamous hacker known as 4chan was behind this.

[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 72 points 8 months ago

"But it's haaaaaard" - the response to every minor challenge in America since landing on the fucking Moon

[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 55 points 8 months ago

Sounds like your wife is having an affair with carbon monoxide

[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 61 points 11 months ago

As in DVDs or Blu Rays?

Computers running for hours just downloading, servers running hot to share the files, extra bandwidth in use - certainly not free.

But in contrast to producing optical media, burning data onto it, printing a cover, sticking it in a plastic box, sticking that plastic box in a larger box with polystyrene peanuts, putting that box with other boxes on a pallet, wrapping them in shrink wrap, flying them across the world, discarding the wrap, breaking down the pallet, driving individual boxes around a region, having an employee come to the store early by car to unload boxes, and have them put individual game cases on display on metal shelves and then lighting and air-conditioning said game cases for a few weeks until they're all sold to customers who drive to and from the store, and then run it on their local computer... Download has got to be more efficient. Certainly when most games then have an update to the disc version already required to download by the time the customer gets home.

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