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elyobo commented on Electric cars produce less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars modernengineeringmarvels.... · Posted by u/tzs

eldaisfish · a month ago

does "preference" equate to endless, manipulative advertising from car manufacturers? Or, perhaps, the "preference" of higher profit margins from larger cars, pushing manufacturers to entirely abandon reasonably sized cars?

elyobo · a month ago

also once everybody else is obstructing your view with a bigger car it becomes necessary to have a bigger one, it's a race to the metaphorical bototm

elyobo commented on Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update 0x44.xyz/blog/web-request... · Posted by u/deryilz

matthewaveryusa · 2 months ago

Websites I use regularly for banking don't work outside of chrome. I've done the pure firefox forray recently but after 6 months it gets tiresome to have 2 browsers and 3 weeks ago Ive admitted defeat for the second time and went full chrome. Who am I lying to -- market cornered, ggwp. It's like trying to eat food without paying a cent to cargill.

elyobo · 2 months ago

Really? I've been FF only for years and everything works reliably, including banking sites (Australia & New Zealand).

elyobo commented on Australia is introducing age checks for search engines like Google abc.net.au/news/2025-07-1... · Posted by u/ahonhn

RachelF · 2 months ago

The "online safety" of kids is just an excuse, I suspect.

Australia really wants to be able to identify and track the ID of all their citizens online. No more Internet anonymity for them.

elyobo · 2 months ago

Reasonable assumption but really our politicians just are that dumb.

elyobo commented on Highest-resolution images ever captured of the sun’s surface smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

djsavvy · 9 months ago

Why does the border of the sun look so poorly antialiased in all of these? Are they doing some sort of postprocessing that would cause that?

elyobo · 9 months ago

I assumed it was the result of the "bubbling" that they describe in the video that also accounts for the grainy appearance of the surface; presumably the bubbling would be visible like this side on?

elyobo commented on Guess my RGB susam.net/myrgb.html... · Posted by u/talonx

elyobo · a year ago

Fun game, a convenient wordle style social media sharing utility would spread the word. Not sure what would work.

elyobo commented on Apple pulls plug on Goldman credit-card partnership wsj.com/finance/banking/a... · Posted by u/voisin

CubsFan1060 · 2 years ago

> But whipping out your phone sucks compared to just tapping your card against a reader.

And I’d have said whipping out my card sucks compared to using the watch that’s already on my hand. (Of course that works with my other cards as well)

elyobo · 2 years ago

I don't really understand how whipping out your phone is harder than whipping out your card even if you don't have a watch. In my case I gave up carrying the cards at all a few years back and pay for everything on my phone anyway; the convenience of not needing a wallet or any cards at all is high.

elyobo commented on Jury Finds Realtors Conspired, Awards Nearly $1.8B in Damages wsj.com/real-estate/jury-... · Posted by u/nerdo

elyobo · 2 years ago

US fees seem very high; Australia & New Zealand have a selling agent fee in the 2-3% range (+ variable vendor paid advertising on top) and buyers agents are uncommon so not a fee most pay at all.

elyobo commented on Bill to ban hidden fees in California signed into law oag.ca.gov/news/press-rel... · Posted by u/rahimnathwani

elyobo · 2 years ago

> "Now we can put the consumer first and create a level playing field for those businesses that advertise the real price, up front,"

I hope this means they're banning the common US practice of omitting sales taxes and tips from prices.

elyobo commented on Flexoki, an inky color scheme for prose and code stephango.com/flexoki... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

ggm · 2 years ago

Screenshots would have made this much easier to comprehend. The website presumably uses the scheme but only two colours, one of which is black. So its subjectively impossible to see how it differs from any other 2 colour scheme using a muted/warm background.

Some simple diagrams, or photos rendered into a compatible colourscheme, or some reason to inject colour into the word flow, SOMETHING to illustrate.

elyobo · 2 years ago

Screenshots would have and I don't know why the author didn't add them when they have added them on Twitter[1]. I like the idea but still too low contrast for my personal preference.

[1] https://twitter.com/kepano/status/1710807755140030754

elyobo commented on 'Couple,' 'Few,' and 'Several' merriam-webster.com/gramm... · Posted by u/cardamomo

valbaca · 2 years ago

It's not even a consistently American thing.

I (from Texas) use "couple" to mean two-ish-or-more whereas my wife (from New Mexico) uses couple to mean exactly two.

I use "couple" to (roughly) mean "just enough in small amounts" like:

- just a couple more minutes (obviously doesn't mean 2 minutes and 0 seconds)

- grab a couple of glasses (probably two unless there are three people)

- buy a couple of things (I'm making a short trip for a small number of things)

For those decrying using imprecise language, it's because these are scenarios where enumerating would give an incorrect level of precision.

elyobo · 2 years ago

I'm being informed by other Aussies that it's not consistent here either, lots of people seem to use it imprecisely as well. I'm actually a Kiwi (but have lived the most recent 15 years in Australia) so it seems I've been misinterpreting the Aussies for years...

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