ArteEtMarte

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by ArteEtMarte 3y ago
Oh, Multiplan was horrible. As a SCO Unix and MS Xenix developer, I remember having to write lots of nasty little programs in C to do stuff with it and its files, just to make it usable. It had a terrible trick of writing multiple documents
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by ArteEtMarte 3y ago
My PTO is in addition to bank holidays, which I think is the equivalent to your federal holidays. A quick count shows that there are 10 bank holidays in the UK this year. Whichever way you slice it, American workers are getting screwed.
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by ArteEtMarte 3y ago
That survey makes a lot of sense to me, as a Brit. If I don't take my PTO my boss's boss gets nagged by HR, so they nag my boss, who nags me. Our PTO year runs from 1 April, so the only (unwritten) rule about vacation is that we s
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by ArteEtMarte 3y ago
Agree. It's unbelievable from a European perspective. Here in the UK, I get 28 days PTO per year. I can carry forward up to 5 days into the next year. But once you've done that once, you're pretty much committed to taking at
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by ArteEtMarte 4y ago
In the context of 'cheers' being a direct one-to-one replacement of 'goodbye'. (Or more precisely 'bye'.) If, in my local usage, there is any difference between 'bye' and 'cheers', it's
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by ArteEtMarte 4y ago
Cheers is used as goodbye here in the East Midlands. If you were here, you'd hear plenty of Brits use it on a daily basis.
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by ArteEtMarte 4y ago
Here in the UK, that happened to me on a roundabout. Elderly driver in front pulled out and then, for no visible reason, slammed on the brakes. I ran into the back of her. It was deemed to be be 100% my fault. Here, if you run into the back
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by ArteEtMarte 5y ago
Nearly happened to me on the Tokyo subway. Train from Narita to Tokyo, couldn't find a way to get out of the system in Shibuya.
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by ArteEtMarte 5y ago
Behold, the Crow Vending Machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iihdP3b6LXw
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by ArteEtMarte 5y ago
I wonder if the indigenous peoples of the Americas told themselves the same thing? Or the aboriginal Australians? Or the people of pre-contact Easter Island? I think the fact that those places are now known by the names given to them by the
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by ArteEtMarte 5y ago
I don't think it was Firewire that kept it as a niche product. It was that iTunes wasn't initially available on Windows machines, and Macs were still quite rare. I had a G3 iMac (Graphite) at the time the iPod came out. So I got o
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The Counterintuitive Mechanics of Peloton Addiction(annehelen.substack.com)
1 points by ArteEtMarte 5y ago|1 comments
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by ArteEtMarte 5y ago
The way I was told it: "Knowledge is knowing it's a one-way street. Wisdom is learning to look both ways anyway."
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by ArteEtMarte 5y ago
And Bob Holness, the first actor to play James Bond. But not, alas, the saxophonist on Baker Street. My mum's Irish too, but can't stand Bailey's.
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by ArteEtMarte 5y ago
We call it a ladyboy.
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by ArteEtMarte 6y ago
Yup, a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. For its time it was a great little browser. I was going to do some bug fixing on it. But then I saw that it required Corba ORB to build. So I let out a long, low moan and, shivering unc