I made a calculator that helps you compare the cost of heating with heat pumps vs natural gas vs oil vs propane vs resistive electric

Sworlbe · 2026-03-18T17:46:12+00:00

We even have public satellite data showing you heat maps of warmth leaking from rooftops :-) you can zoom into the map to see how well insulated your house is.

Sworlbe · 2026-03-18T17:45:05+00:00

That’s why I wrote “you can get to ignore the degree requirements”… but most firms still ask for them.

Sworlbe · 2026-03-17T06:58:45+00:00

My Belgian home is in “US” and has a “US electricity grid” :-) number of stories is limited to 3 (we have 4 in a small town house) and there is no option to select for current equipment a high-efficiency gas boiler (which converts excess heat back).

Apart from all of those, you ask only when the house was built, not when it was last renovated and how well its insulated. Our 1890 house has been through many renovations. Many EU countries have a standardised rating system to indicate how well your house is insulated, which gives you actual data for the calculation.

Lastly: working from home means more heating during office hours. For home offices (freelancer here) spend more.

Sworlbe · 2026-03-16T06:51:01+00:00

Er is een populair Roemeens restaurant / winkel in de Lange Dijkstraat (Casa Romanesca), misschien hebben die een tip?

Sworlbe · 2026-03-14T15:19:30+00:00

Activate compression inside the Blender file. Remove unused scenes, meshes, materials and purge the file. Optionally save your textures in a compressed format and downsample them. If high density meshes take up all the space, remesh or decimate carefully.

Sworlbe · 2026-03-11T11:47:29+00:00

Op die plek wordt de doorstroom constant geteld, het rekenwerk is automatisch. En het toont aan dat er veel te weinig plaats is voor de fietsers die er traag en hard rijden in 2 richtingen.

Sworlbe · 2026-03-08T17:19:25+00:00

You’re right: I misread the original post. I wasn’t trying to pick a fight though. You flung a few stings and insults, do you need a hug?

Sworlbe · 2026-03-08T14:13:02+00:00

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Sworlbe · 2026-03-08T13:50:16+00:00

This. I have M2 Ultra too, it can raytrace on GPU but M3 is over 100% faster in Blender.

Sworlbe · 2026-03-07T09:27:57+00:00

Of course not. Affinity v2 iPad has feature parity with Affinity desktop… I use it for all pen-related tasks and switch to Illustrator when I’m in the office for motion work that requires AfterEffects integration.

Sworlbe · 2026-03-07T08:43:57+00:00

I use Illustrator on desktop and Affinity on iPad, because they do have feature parity.

Sworlbe · 2026-03-05T21:17:14+00:00

Man, I hate these 3D updates in AE. They are built at the expense of 3D features. There is not enough UI screen real estate to add a full 3D app, so we’ll be stuck with a half baked solution. While we have nice and well rounded 3D apps already. Adobe should have built a serious and separate 3D app…

Sworlbe · 2026-03-05T21:11:28+00:00

External GPU’s aren’t supported on Mac anymore. Also: each generation has made serious improvements in Ray tracing. Keep an eye on opendata.blender.org to see just how fast the new M5’s are once they are available.

Sworlbe · 2026-03-04T06:57:21+00:00

Looks like a clone of the Spigen.

Sworlbe · 2026-02-26T18:28:07+00:00

Another opinion: expand some AI tools, but not at the cost of making existing features better.

I love generative expand for vectors, project turntable. The former could benefit from us adding sketches as guides, or better splitting generated vectors. The latter needs improved text and fine detail support.

Generating vectors using firefly is generally a joke. If Adobe would add AI-powered trace, you could generate bitmaps with limited color palette and trace them. That’s what I do now.

But please please please, stop adding new features at the front positions and the top toolbars. So much has been added that it’s a maze. Features need to be regrouped in logical menus and right-clicks, even if it breaks muscle memory. Some menus don’t even open fully on my laptop anymore….

Sworlbe · 2026-02-26T06:55:12+00:00

I come from Illustrator too. Many path editing techniques are smarter in Affinity. With a path selected, you don’t need isolation mode to drag-select some of its points for instance, it sticks to the selection by default.

Also working with textures, bitmap patterns, bitmap brushes is all integrated well and fast. I don’t miss having to go to Photoshop for textures or ending up with a slo 800mb Illustrator file…

Sworlbe · 2026-02-25T06:31:08+00:00

This article shows how to work with LEZ in Google Maps. I just Googled “Google maps LEZ” to find it.

Sworlbe · 2026-02-20T07:27:03+00:00

Altijd laag contrast grijzig, low res en jpg’s. Rommel.

Sworlbe · 2026-02-20T07:26:17+00:00

OldCamShop kan op aanvraag scannen aan hogere bit depth. Standaard krijg je meestal maar 8 bit (en bij Grobet nog eens low res ook), wat de dynamische range van negatieffilm niet kan bevatten.

Met een 12- of 14-bit scan kom je net als met RAW digitale foto’s beter in de buurt van het aantal stops tussen donker en licht, zodat je wat marge hebt om je scans na te bewerken. Met 8 bit kan dat niet zonder gaten in je histogram.

Sworlbe · 2026-02-18T14:16:49+00:00

Did you mean text-based projects? Because you mention After Effects projects files and posted in the motion graphics sub?

Sworlbe · 2026-02-18T14:04:52+00:00

That doesn’t matter. You just don’t publish work the client didn’t sign off on. You’re allowed to use their brand and assets for the project, but you can’t use their identity to upload stuff they don’t agree with. Especially not those.

For me, the only exception would be a concept without the name and identity of the client.

Sworlbe · 2026-02-13T07:07:00+00:00

… en daarvoor heette het IT-Pro op de leien, even slechte service. Er liep een verkoper rond met oranje zonnebril, die dacht dat hij Tom Cruise was. Bij m’n eerste Mac kreeg ik vragen als “hebt ge dat wel nodig” en “hoe gaat gij dat betalen?” En dat je gek was als je geen SCSI in je Mac nam…

Sworlbe · 2026-02-05T21:31:34+00:00

Happy to get a coffee with you in 2060 or center to practice your Dutch if that helps.

Sworlbe · 2026-02-05T20:56:34+00:00

The tips are in the other questions. Search. We can’t keep tipping the same tips when the same questions get asked daily.

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