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    Comment #48941179

    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 an…

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    Comment #48914079

    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 …

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    Comment #48914038

    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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    Comment #47656036

    You would probably need to face voters questioning whether that's the best way to use their money.

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    Comment #47425803

    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 pos…

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    Comment #47421686

    I hope the author can specify a language for the page, like . On a system using Chinese as the first language, all the curly quotes are rendered in full width, making sentences loo…

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    Comment #47365877

    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 p…

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    Comment #47231557

    And that tiny thing is actually one of the last to collapse...

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    Comment #46547778

    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 ag…

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    Comment #45906806

    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…

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    Comment #45844453

    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 outle…

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    Comment #43812021

    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 bur…

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    Comment #41169194

    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 c…

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    Comment #40487694

    > 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 sign…

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    Comment #40008549

    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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    Comment #39837769

    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 …

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    Comment #39837739

    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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    Comment #39834568

    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 …

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    Comment #39828518

    > 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 man…

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    Comment #39828467

    > 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 ou…

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    Comment #39827922

    > "... 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 chan…

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    Comment #39827289

    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 …

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    Comment #39827244

    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 teste…

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    Comment #39826866

    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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    Comment #38771147

    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 a…