elyobo

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by elyobo 3y ago
A corollary is that text is better than video as well. Possibly not for entertainment, for for education, I find text infinitely preferable - much easier to scan forward and back as required.
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by elyobo 3y ago
> I prefer trees and grass over parking lots I don't see a meaningful distinction between a consolidated parking lot and one that's distributed along the side of the road when it comes to tree and grass cover. For dense urban s
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by elyobo 3y ago
Yeah, I live in the Melbourne CBD and it's great. I don't even need to cross a street to access all essentials.
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by elyobo 3y ago
When I lived in Perth in 2008 the coffee was awful compared to NZ (and to Melbourne, where I ended up afterwards). I lived in Leederville and Subiaco, both with popular cafe strips, but broadly awful coffee.
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by elyobo 3y ago
"want" is probably a misleading term here
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by elyobo 3y ago
$15 to transfer $20 to another country, the US really is a another world sometimes. Transfers are often free to cheap - substantially lower than the costs for transferring crypto in most cases.
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by elyobo 3y ago
It was my main motivation for running pihole, killing off more adverts across everything, not just in browser.
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by elyobo 3y ago
Similar, we use JS UDFs in BigQuery for JSON parsing (ELT instead of ETL) and occasionally for other tasks that are just easier in JS than pure SQL.
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by elyobo 3y ago
Inability to "split a cheque" is still a very annoying limitation; completely normal behaviour to do this in NZ, still moderately weird in Australia (although it's got better). The ability to resolve this electronically rathe
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by elyobo 3y ago
Australia's "PayID" system gets around this by allowing you to pay to a mobile phone number or email address (generally findable via your phone's contacts). The implementation is a little clunky, but an additional benefi
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by elyobo 3y ago
I'm not arguing it's a solution for the poor, the absolute opposite - because I have sufficient income to pay my bills in full it just comes out cheaper than paying them with cash. It's a terrible solution _if you actually ne
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by elyobo 3y ago
People outside the US stopped using cheques ~decades ago. At 40+ from New Zealand I've literally never paid anyone with one and have been paid with them only a handful of times.
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by elyobo 3y ago
Credit cards are pretty common here in AU; I don't care so much about the fraud protection, but up to 55 day interest free periods are common (if the bill is paid in full each month) and so the cards literally save me money because I e
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by elyobo 3y ago
4.5% of the American population sounds like an _extremely_ significant number of people tbh
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by elyobo 3y ago
clickhouse.com is down for me, so for those looking for it the github repo[1] may be more useful [1] https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/tree/master#readme
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by elyobo 4y ago
Never go full Tony Abbot, not even for onions.
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by elyobo 4y ago
Contact lenses, for those that wear them, also largely mitigate the tears and stinging.
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by elyobo 5y ago
I thought I liked cream cheese until I bought bagels in NYC and there was more cream cheese than bagel. Even I can't eat that, got used to scraping off half the topping (and it was still half a brick left).
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by elyobo 5y ago
Have heard the "big enough to sue" which is also "big enough to afford the indemnity insurance in case they're sued" is a common problem in Australian government contracting.
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by elyobo 5y ago
In theory it shouldn't matter but you can SSR with React if that's important.
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by elyobo 5y ago
PayID is the service that let's you pay to a mobile / email / ABN, but it's not the only use - smaller value transfers to a standard BSB are also often instant thanks to Osko which is also using the New Payment Platform.
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by elyobo 5y ago
That's at the bank's discretion, rather than something enforced by the system.
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by elyobo 5y ago
Yeah, I did not like shingles.
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by elyobo 5y ago
Yeah, I have a balcony that's a plant kill zone (north facing high rise in Australia, so lots of sun, the odd 40 degree (100 farenheit) day, aircon outlet there pushes it up much hotter still. Peace lilies have been surviving (not th
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by elyobo 5y ago
Yeah, I thought Hobbs' books were well written, just not as much to my taste. I'm less interested in individual characters, or well formed prose (although both are good to have), than plot. I don't really notice much differen
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by elyobo 5y ago
I need to revisit The Dark Tower, I last read it when it was incomplete and have never read it through. Very different to his more famous works. Thanks for the reminder.
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by elyobo 5y ago
I read the Assassin's Apprentice series through, but it didn't really satisfy, and I haven't read anything else by the author. I like the Malazan ones, and ASoIF, a lot more - partly the grimdark, but more so the overall comp
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by elyobo 5y ago
Websockets are fine on flex, but yeah, Cloud Run is getting the love these days.
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by elyobo 5y ago
Or, annoyingly, websockets.
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by elyobo 5y ago
Melbourne, Australia, has Google Pay support for the transit system but not Apple Pay. I recently switched to iOS and the lack of phone transit support is the biggest pain so far (and I don't really even use public transport, living an

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