elyobo

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by elyobo 5y ago
I pay it off in full when it's due, and have done almost without fail for years. In two cases I stuffed up (paid the previous month's bill instead on one, can't recall the other), in both cases I hit them up and they ended up
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by elyobo 5y ago
No, it's safer to lend to someone who has handled credit well (i.e. by paying it back) than someone who has no track record. There's a catch-22 if rules are so strict so that you can't get credit because you haven't had
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by elyobo 5y ago
As far as I know, no. I suspect that it wasn't just them.
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by elyobo 5y ago
Thanks, not one I'd encountered.
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by elyobo 5y ago
> This is not available to you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by elyobo 5y ago
Happened with Australia's real time payment system too. https://www.itnews.com.au/news/monitoring-fail-allowed-westp...
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by elyobo 5y ago
I'm not the person 16' from their 43" TV ;) Interesting, but doesn't tell me much - I live in an apartment, well under 111sqm, and have a 55" TV around 12' from the couch - so still too small / too far awa
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by elyobo 5y ago
I'm interested in sources that establish "how the majority of the public uses TVs". I've personally never seen anyone use TVs in line with the recommendations from TV manufacturers screen size and viewing distance. May
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by elyobo 5y ago
Yes, good point - my subjective feeling of effort is often at odds with my measured performance with Strava. And agreed on your second point too, I bike because I enjoy biking and it makes me feel better both physically and mentally. That I
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by elyobo 5y ago
I cycle a moderate amount (~100km/week spread over 2-3 rides, typically in the 30-80km range), but drastically prefer starting early (generally pre-food, unless it's going to be a longer ~70km+ ride - in that case I know that I&#x
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by elyobo 6y ago
Thanks for the explanation. Interesting to compare to Australia, which has a public health system, but where I still pay ~AUD2960/year, after government rebates (at current rates ~USD2255/year) for moderately crap health insurance
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by elyobo 6y ago
I'd take no exception to either, but would object to "socialised medicine is perfect" if applied to any system that I'm aware of.
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by elyobo 6y ago
My partner is also a limiting factor on the budget on which our child can be raised :-/
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by elyobo 6y ago
Agreed, and I didn't meant to suggest that it's purely a fiscal decision, just that there _are_ fiscal elements that one should be aware of.
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by elyobo 6y ago
Being aware that they're expensive (although my child is much less expensive than my spouse) doesn't necessarily mean not having them, it just means having them with your eyes open.
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by elyobo 6y ago
Wow, those are some crazy laws. Child support is mandatory around here, and follows well defined rules, but spousal support ("alimony") is much less well defined and (in my limited understanding) less common and shorter lived. E
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by elyobo 6y ago
Partner choice and choice whether to have children are other critical considerations in cost control.
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by elyobo 6y ago
Concern about the licensing was eventually sufficient that they resolved it a few years back.
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by elyobo 6y ago
I see nuclear as insurance. Solar and wind are much cheaper, but cannot be scaled in proportion to demand. Given sufficient advances in storage and transmission they may be able to eventually, but maybe not. Building nuclear that we may not
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by elyobo 6y ago
Is that a bad habit? I remapped my capslock key to escape years ago and never looked back.
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by elyobo 6y ago
I use an HoC to wrap components in an error boundary around key points to avoid total crashes.
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by elyobo 6y ago
That video's oddly edited; is there some context which makes him seem less... nuts?
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by elyobo 6y ago
I had screen resolution issues with xorg at one point which Wayland resolved, but they no longer appear to be an issue and the lack of screen sharing has recently became an issue (change of responsibilities has led to more meetings requirin
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by elyobo 6y ago
I can share some specific windows, but not the whole desktop, which ends up involving a very tedious unshare and reshare to swap back and forth between windows instead.
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by elyobo 6y ago
Recently gave up on Wayland (for the moment) due to the inability to screen share most applications on Google Meet. I realise this isn't really Wayland's fault, but that doesn't really solve my problem.
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by elyobo 6y ago
Sorry, I read that far too literally! Yeah, that's fair enough. I certainly needed large blocks of staying still, but didn't feel the need to stay anywhere as long as three months - month long blocks were more common for me.
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by elyobo 6y ago
Guilty.
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by elyobo 6y ago
Never heard of it until today!
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by elyobo 6y ago
The amount of time maybe varies by the location and the visitor, but... how much do you carry that it takes a week to unpack? Until I started travelling with my wife (and now a child too), one main lesson I learned was "you aren't
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by elyobo 6y ago
1. is a good point, but I wouldn't be too focused on it - just realise that it's ok to do that , so that when you find somewhere you like, or when you're tired from the go go go, you do actually stop and enjoy yourself. Even

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