On which side of the road do you normally drive Vadim and have any Nation's roads got features that you love/hate compared to other countries? During my trips to France with my Mother in the last couple of years I missed the reflective British cat's eyes that we invented many year ago; on the other hand I quite liked the driver-level traffic light repeater lamps for the driver at the front of the traffic waiting at them {but that is needed to make up for the lack of lights on the far side of the junction} - I hated the French traffic light sequence that goes straight from red to green (the UK sequence goes red to red & amber to green) but on the other hand they have some junctions that go to a permanent flashing amber which I think means process with care/no priority to any direction - which is also reflected in some road signs also being fitted with a single flashing amber lamp. In the UK the only example of this is really the "Zebra-crossing" where the amber lamps have mutated into "Belisha Beacons"... :grinning:
Vadim Peretokin
@vadi2
Canada and Australia use red -> green as well without the amber in the middle. I don't drive so I don't worry about such problems!
keneanung
@keneanung
Germany has red->red amber -> green as well.
Permanent flashing amber is a general warning sign here. Some traffic lights turn off at night and the part of the crossing that has to yield has the flashing amber
Vadim Peretokin
@vadi2
"Gitter has been acquired by GitLab! "
Hmm
Erik Pettis
@Oneymus
I like GitLab.
Vadim Peretokin
@vadi2
At least they're not shutting it down.
Erik Pettis
@Oneymus
I use it for my personal stuff.
Vadim Peretokin
@vadi2
WOE
Erik Pettis
@Oneymus
In fact, most of the stuff on my GitHub is mirrored from my GitLab.
Vadim Peretokin
@vadi2
I just agreed to @Chris7 that we'd migrate from launchpad to github
Now there's a new thing just as we're ready to migrate
Haha this is hilarious. I'm getting pop-ups from Gitter that it's having trouble communicating. This is the first time I've ever gotten them.
keneanung
@keneanung
I like gitlab as well. They have some thungs github doesn't (but are missing some things github has, too)
Vadim Peretokin
@vadi2
It's probably nice, and it's open-source. I'd like to get more people involved in Mudlet dev though, and moving off the more popular platform won't facilitate that, so eh.
keneanung
@keneanung
It's actually "open-core"...
Vadim Peretokin
@vadi2
Eh... what?
keneanung
@keneanung
They have an open source base and some closed source additions, which can be used when you paid for a license.
Gitlab.com is that paid version btw
Vadim Peretokin
@vadi2
Cool.
Stephen Lyons
@SlySven
Gitlab.com is that paid version btw
Sounds like Travis.org (free) vs Travis.com ($$$)
_
keneanung
@keneanung
not quite. They allow the use of the hosted full version of gitlab.com for free. But if you want to host that version yourself, you have to pay
hosting gitlab CE (community edition)yourself is free
keneanung
@keneanung
@vadi2 how was your exam?
Vadim Peretokin
@vadi2
I think I did great! I'm thrilled about it. Not bad for just 3 months in de Nederland!
Now I can speak funny German :laughing:
keneanung
@keneanung
hahaha! I still won't understand you :P
Vadim Peretokin
@vadi2
I am an enigma
keneanung
@keneanung
I might understand you a little when you speak Russian :P
Vadim Peretokin
@vadi2
а что русский знаешь?
keneanung
@keneanung
мой жена из екатаринбург
Reading russion is okay, but I can't write much, yet (and using russian keyboard is even worse :P)
Vadim Peretokin
@vadi2
хаха я на русской клавиатуре совсем не могу печатать - только по транслитерации на латинской!
но, класс что русский знаешь! )
keneanung
@keneanung
Reading transcriptions is even worse than actual russian for me. But yes, I'm learning! I won't starve in Russia, at least.
Vadim Peretokin
@vadi2
I hate transcriptions with a passion, it's super hard for me too. I meant writing on a Latin keyboard with transliteration enabled
keneanung
@keneanung
ah. I still have trouble building the sound combinations, so that doesn't work for me either :D
I've been to Yekatarineburgh and Moscow for the first time at new year this year. A great experience!
Vadim Peretokin
@vadi2
Wow you spent NYE in Russia? Yeah it would have been!
Stephen Lyons
@SlySven
It might be indelicate to inquire but of what national origins are you Vadim (you may not wish to answer, that is fair enough) but I see your name and think Russian but I thought you are an Aussie. {On the other hand if you do speak Russian the spam forum messages probably make at least some sense...!}
Vadim Peretokin
@vadi2
Haha. I'm Russian, and I've been all around the world ;) I've got a Canadian passport and I've lived in Australia for the last 6 years.
Stephen Lyons
@SlySven
Humm, that looks nasty: Cyclone Debbie is heading towards where you were I think Vadim, i.e. Brisbane...