The average wholesale power price is plummeting.
There’s also massive price spikes during exceptional conditions, where we rely primarily on gas turbines. We also have massive daily connection fee charges to contend with.

As a retail customer, the prices remain the highest in the country and arguably some of the highest in the world.
Currently I am paying 46c/kWh for what I use, compared to ~ 28c in Victoria and Tasmania, 33c in Queensland or 36c in New South Wales.

On top of this high usage charge, I am also paying 125c per day as the “Supply Charge” just for being connected.

I’m not 100% sure where the blame should be placed here, but SOMEONE is making mega profits, because the savings aren’t being passed on.

It’s one thing for someone inside to profit off their insider knowledge.
It’s a whole 'nother level of evil to make announcements and decisions based on the profits you can make.

I’ve been running Cachy for a few months - it just works.

I picked it because it appeared to be easy to install Arch (which I’ve run before, btw) with sane defaults.
But that’s exactly what Endeavour is from what I just read.
I don’t know if the purported optimisations provide any real world benefit, but the major reason I went Cachy is it being the flavour of the month.
For the time being, it’s where a lot of focus is for new development in the gaming space.

https://www.carsguide.com.au/urban/toyota-yaris-cross-urban-fwd-100185 ?

Looks interesting.
Nice head height, good visibility.
Don’t love that interior, but I guess that’s the price point.

Which HEV did you go with?
What’s the price/features like?
Are the kids embarassed to be seen in it, does the partner hate parking it at the shops?

Genuinely, real world answers desired.

Valve operates a very “flat” hierarchy, with no middle managers.
There’s Gabe and then there’s everyone else.
This doesn’t make Valve proof from unscrupulous kowtowing by any means, but Gabe has historically been moderate.

They’ve always followed a policy of following the laws of the countries they operate in, and in that way you could expect them to bow to the CCP, but only in China.
For instance, I don’t see them suddenly banning all images of Winnie the Pooh in the rest of the world just because they make Dear Leader uncomfortable.

I know Discord has a lot of time and effort into formulating their exact position on this, justifying it’s necessity in the most verbose of terms and I want give them an equally measured response:

no

Prioritize better matches on search PR #15983, by @Shadowghost

This is a big one for me, I can now search for “IT” and actually get results!

If $'s was my only consideration, I’d pirate the game.
If my valid options are paying $25 to Valve, installing the Epic malware or dealing with pirate sites, I’m sending money to Valve.

For something to be defamatory it has to:
a) Reduce the public’s perception of him (which is laughable, the public’s perception of him is “monster”)
b) Be untrue (doubt it)

I think he meant derogatory.
And even that’s of questionable accuracy, as it’s about being shown an inappropriate amount of respect.

They failed the golden rule, it was right there the whole time.

I dont really think this is a fair assessment.

Rowland Browne is a well established anti-gun nut, who other pro gun control individuals feel uncomfortable associating with.

This organisation that he’s Co-Chairman of?
https://www.guncontrolaustralia.org/ ?
You could fit their active members in a Kia Carnival.

What they do have is a website and a fax machine, and they REGULARLY spam all the media outlets with “press releases”, which those media outlets publish on a slow day.

According to Mr Browne, anyone who wants a gun for any reason is guilty of wrong-think.
“How dare thousands of wrong-thinkers band together to stop rightness!”

We’re past the point of diminishing returns on gun control in Australia, but Mr Browne won’t be happy until there isn’t a single gun, nor the means to make them, and children aren’t playing “cops and robbers” with bent sticks.

I’m a bit surprised we haven’t heard from Phillip Alpers yet.

Edit to Add: The irrationality of the individual who downvoted me for calling out Mr Browne warms my heart.
You almost get it: you’re one person, you get one vote.
But mate, so am I.
Pro-gun people aren’t all paid shills, out here to promote the sale of guns and ammo like a shady drug dealer on a corner.
There are 940,000+ people who currently own them safely in this country and would like to continue doing so.

What happened in Bondi wasn’t a gun control issue, it was terrorism committed with guns.
And the general public can see it.

All good, I feel like we’re in total agreement here.
They’ve done something stupid.
Now we all get to see how far they’ll take it.

The Australian government isn’t scared to piss off Big Tech when it suits them.

The ASSISTANCE AND ACCESS ACT 2018 lead to some people I know being given the option of quitting or relocating to somewhere that the Australian government couldn’t do THAT.

It’s certainly an extra factor when deciding to offshore development teams here.

As a “great” man once said:

“The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia,”

I understand that I’m making a slippery slope argument, a fallacy in itself.

I just don’t trust that the purpose of this legislation is what it says on the tin because it’ll never achieve it’s stated aim, it’ll just teach a whole generation how to break the law.

And having failed, will the government stop?
No, they’ll try to ban VPNs, or something else equally vacuous.

edit to add: This reminds me a bit of the tobacco excise.
On paper, it’s to discourage people from smoking as it becomes increasingly unaffordable to do so.
But what’s actually happened is that a whole black market has sprung up, making cigarettes even cheaper than before, funding criminal organisations, who have ZERO incentive to not sell to anyone who will buy them (including children).

Beyond the above, I feel there’s an inherent value to anonymous conversation that will be lost.
Sure, anonymous conversation allows echo chambers where cookers come up with nonsense - but every societal upheaval in the past would have started with unsanctioned conversations happening behind closed doors.
Woman’s suffrage?
Same sex marriage?
Person-hood/voting rights for indigenous Australians?

It’s easy to see them as obvious now, but once they were illegal.
Those changes occurred in public referendums that started with private conversations.

These are pretty calm messages to an Australian and Garry is British, so culture checks out.

// What the fuck
// Fuck dynamic compiling.
// what the fuck is this shit
// What the fuck, why isnt this a method

Should this by the by commentary be there?
Not really.
But as a programmer, I understand each and every time I see something like:

// Urgh this is so dirty, Invalidate() and Refresh() do nothing.
tButt.AutoSize = false;
tButt.Width = maxWidth;
tButt.Height = maxHeight;
tButt.AutoSize = true;

As you can see, I too have made a “least bad” choice for pragmatic reasons.

I take no pride in correcting you.

Actually, if you hit those 3 dots on the top right and select “All Permissions”, you’ll see there’s a whole host of things it demands that you can’t opt out of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

“Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”

But I want to be wrong.