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The other key thing is SAs power use is far smaller than NSW, Victoria and Queensland. So while they can shutdown their coal stations and import if there is a shortfall, those bigger states can't.

For example as I type this Queensland is generating about 4300MW of solar, SA is generating about 1300MW of solar, but SA gets all the plaudits for being green.

My wife grew up in a small town. I met her in university and before the summer break I asked for her address to write to her (this was in the 90s and although I had email by then, she didn't). She assured me that her first name and the town was enough, since all the mail for the town went to the shop across the road from her house and everyone knew her.

My current company had the same thing happen on acquisition, we had to ditch Zoom for Teams for video, but could stay on Slack. I find Teams video absolutely fine. It just works and I never think about it.

I couldn't agree more. Every time I have to do a for-each loop in some templating language instead of just using a normal programming language I want to shoot it into the sun. Templated yaml is my current pain point. Why not build data structures in a normal programming language and then write the result to yaml. It feels like a lesson we learnt after templated XML 20 years ago that we keep forgetting.

You mention public holiday surcharges, some restaurants are starting to charge a surcharge every day, and as long as it's mentioned somewhere it appears to be legal. Check the bottom of this menu (pdf warning: https://rockpool-websites.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/th...). 5% "service fee" Monday to Saturday in minuscule writing.

Yeah, this is annoying to me personally because the client I use now doesn't work, but the writing has been on the wall for aaaaaages. The client I use was pulled from the store in 2018 because they hit their token limit.

Right, that was the point of the parent comment that started this, I wish there was a web app to do this like Google has. And someone replied saying there is, and linking to instructions on how to use an iOS device, which is exactly not what the original comment was about.

That walks me through doing things on an iPhone I don't own, what am I missing? The familylink.google.com page lets me manage my kids' devices directly on that webpage, which is the feature I would like Apple to have.

People have said you can manage it on the kids' device directly by logging in with your AppleId, but that doesn't help me if my kid is out and messages me asking me to allow an app or give her an extra half hour of screentime or something.

My kid wanted an iPhone, I prefer Android. Why is that confusing?

It's so annoying that this isn't just a page on family.apple.com or whatever like Google does with familylink.google.com.

Everyone thinks they can tell the difference until they do a blind test.

For most people, non-technical people in particular, their biggest exploit risk is they re-use the same username and password everywhere, one website gets popped and their creds get in the open, and then people use those creds to get into everything else.

Anything that gets them to use unique, strong passwords for everything vastly improves their general security, even if they are using a third party, commercial organization.

And I believe you can't order one at that price as the waiting list had reached several years so they closed the book. You're looking at over 100kAUD to buy a low km used one.

I worked at a small company where Engineering rotated through support. There was some value in it, but also it sucked doing it and there were other companies out there with interesting work, good pay and _not_ asking you to do support. It was absolutely part of the reason I left.

Admittedly the company was small and you were doing support a lot (up to one week a month depending on team). Something more like one week every six months would have given you the customer visibility benefits without all the engineers absolutely hating it.

Wow, it's even worse than I thought.

Completely reasonable to at least wait and see for stuff Google launches. Go has survived long enough to adopt. Flutter (the only reason to use Dart anymore) hasn't, and is exactly the sort of project they regularly kill off, or decide they got wrong and release Flutter 2 with no migration strategy.

Yeah, the list of stuff I've worked on over the years is long and boring. I'd happily work on this for Facebook salary and stock.

As I understand it the body pretty quickly gets used to caffeine use, then taking your typical amount just gets you to the same level you'd always be if you never had caffeine. I still drink coffee though.

You have prove your identity to get a phone service. Drivers license is one way of doing that.

You probably need to look into modern logging if you think that's how logging still works.

My first job out of college in the late 90s was in a large division of a larger company (about 80k employees at the time) that was being spun off in the hopes of selling it. As they were going to be made a stand-alone company they needed their own ERP etc and went with SAP. After two years and $50M the dotcom crash killed any chance of selling the new company and it was absorbed back into the mother ship and SAP was thrown away.

I don't think react is faster to code, I think the main and biggest payoff is in the maintainability.

The only one of those apps I used when I was on mac for a few years was iMovie (actually my wife used it, I didn't use any of those apps).

Finder on the other hand...

Certainly not one I agree with.

If you were using a free product with limited history and expected not to lose history then I have exactly zero sympathy for you. Even if the free product you were using changed their terms.

Maybe all that profit shows that they don't need to buy developer goodwill?

One of the interesting time-related applications I worked on was involved with medicines management. If a patient was to receive a medicine around the daylight savings change over we had to make sure it wasn't either doubled-up or missed completely.

I also worked on event planning software with plenty of timezone fun with events having a timezone, the planner a potentially different timezone and it also handled flights for speakers etc who could be coming from any number of other timezones. That was mostly straight forward with decent libraries, but it certainly taught me that you need to think in (and store) timezones and not just offsets.

F# is very much a second-class citizen in the Microsoft world.

As a user I honestly don't care how Microsoft license their tools. If they want to start charging for them I'll pay for them if I think they are better than the alternatives.

And .NET 4.8 is still installed by default on Windows 11 and will presumably happily run your WPF app if you target it.