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by upsuper 7d ago
I, for one, don't see any problem here. If you go to a restaurant for a meal, you own nothing after that, but you can be happy. If you go to an entertainment park, you own nothing after that for your ticket, but you can be happy. Makin
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by upsuper 2mo ago
We have Amber Electric which pass through the 5 minute pricing, and I personally have a lot of automations on Home Assistant based on it. But TBH it doesn't make much difference and it may not even make sense. The price just doesn&#x27
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by upsuper 2mo ago
Australian grids are already talking about removing all per-kWh tariff and shift all the cost to fixed supply fee. The government rejected it probably because it doesn't make them look good, and it makes poor people pay more. But it&#x
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by upsuper 2mo ago
Australia has that as well, the wholesale market changes price every 5 minutes, but it is a big ask for average consumers to follow that price and shift power usage in real time.
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by upsuper 5mo ago
You would probably need to face voters questioning whether that's the best way to use their money.
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by upsuper 6mo ago
Really nice project, I'm looking forward to trying it! Would it be possible to process songs on one device, and then use the result in another, or even multiple? Or would it be possible to run as separate server / client? I ask ma
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by upsuper 6mo ago
I hope the author can specify a language for the page, like <html lang="en">. On a system using Chinese as the first language, all the curly quotes are rendered in full width, making sentences looking terrible.
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by upsuper 6mo ago
I contributed this change in Vite 8: > Wasm SSR support: .wasm?init imports now work in SSR environments, expanding Vite's WebAssembly feature to server-side rendering. While the process was relatively slow, I really appreciate the
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by upsuper 7mo ago
And that tiny thing is actually one of the last to collapse...
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by upsuper 8mo ago
I have a nice application of this technique: when I saw some good discount of something online that I'm not sure whether I really need, I put it aside. Later when I looked at it again, it is often out of stock, so nothing to think abou
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by upsuper 10mo ago
Don't have any particular brand recommendation. I have been mostly looking for products marketed as compatible with Tuya Zigbee. It seems they are manufactured under many different brands, and usually at the cheaper end, but they work
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by upsuper 10mo ago
I have quite different observations. IKEA's Zigbee devices are the least stable devices I own and with smaller feature set. For example, I have more than a dozen Zigbee smart outlet around my home, and the IKEA one is the only one that
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by upsuper 1y ago
Except it is hard to imagine there to be enough demand all the time to sustain this for every hour they work, and even in case there is, they would be happy busy making so many burgers for maybe eight hours in a row each day. And let's
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by upsuper 2y ago
Not sure whether they are already doing this, but the fiber could simply connect to a relay rather than the operator themselves, that way the operator can still hide far from the connected system and use wireless outside jamming to control
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by upsuper 2y ago
> Electricity generation typically results in lots of waste heat Typically, but may no longer be true with renewables. I don't think any of solar pv, wind, and hydro generates significant heat in the process of their power generatio
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by upsuper 2y ago
This is true, but I only learnt about it after many years into this career, and to be honest I don't enjoy it very much. I still enjoy working with machines more than people.
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by upsuper 2y ago
Canva and Affinity just released another news [1] which makes the pledge that > We know this model has been a key part of the Affinity offering and we are committed to continue to offer perpetual licenses in the future. If we do offer a
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by upsuper 2y ago
I agree that the help page isn't very helpful. I had to reach out internally to understand what it is doing and why it is there.
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by upsuper 2y ago
I realized that we provide an option called "Flatten PDF" [1] which does exactly what you described: flatten everything including text into a big image per page. It makes all text unselectable and also produces a very large file.
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by upsuper 2y ago
> Now the question is, will I ever get any updates to Photo/Design/Publisher? They answered the question in their FAQ: > Will my Affinity apps still get updates? > Yes! We have many free updates planned for V2, with a con
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by upsuper 2y ago
> If Affinity had a great business of their own, they wouldn’t need to sell. They don't need to. They mentioned that in their FAQ: > We have to say that selling Serif was not on our minds at all, but when Canva contacted us (only
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by upsuper 2y ago
> "... Currently there are no plans for changes to our business model" They mentioned exactly that in the FAQ: > Canva’s business model is subscription, are there any plans to change how Affinity is sold? > There are no c
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by upsuper 2y ago
In Canva we do care about accessibility. While I admit our editor may still have a long way to go on providing an accessible editing experience, unselectable text in export result is more likely an overlooked bug than anything intentional.
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by upsuper 2y ago
Hello, I'm an engineer in Canva's editing team, which is also responsible for rendering of designs. Text in our PDF export should generally be selectable and copyable. I just tested one presentation template I recently used, and i
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by upsuper 2y ago
Mel and Cliff are not even 40. See the Australian young rich list, they are the first one and two: https://www.afr.com/young-rich/the-10-richest-young-australi...
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by upsuper 3y ago
I was not saying we have to be all on renewable perfectly. We are too far from even reaching a reasonable level. Power generation at night is dominated by coal plants. The linked article is interesting, and it kinda confirms what I was wond
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by upsuper 3y ago
Every time I saw this kind of discussions, my first question is, what happens when sun is not shining? Like in the night or when it's very cloudy? In many places in Australia, we have so many solar panels installed that's enough t
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by upsuper 3y ago
So there is nothing about being proprietary, but just about using IM? I don't fully agree. IMs are a great place to discuss issues in a semi-synchronous way. Telecon or face-to-face meetings are sometimes better in velocity, but IMs ha
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by upsuper 3y ago
Yes, they are proprietary, which is not great. But I don't buy the allegation that they are not indexed or searchable. There are very few IMs that provide builtin publicly accessable log indexed or searchable by default. Does every IRC
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by upsuper 3y ago
I think it's mainly because of large amount of rooftop solars which are either unable or don't have incentive to curtail, and then there are coal generators already running at their lowest output level.

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