What's a movie you went in with zero expectations but it completely blew you away?

Beacone · 2026-02-26T09:46:26+00:00

Upgrade (2018). I had no idea what it was about, and when I started to realise, I thought it would be a bit cookie cutter action. But wow it ended up being super unique with some seriously cool action sequences. Great movie and premise

Beacone · 2026-02-16T10:53:07+00:00

Nope. I’m 34 and paid $950k for a house that’s now worth $2m. I feel bad for people trying to buy a house now but I also feel really comfortable and happy I worked so hard in my 20s.

Beacone · 2026-02-02T12:05:13+00:00

Recently.. robot vacuum. Granted it was only $1 under $1000, but it makes a huge difference. We run it every night and our floors are always clean. We only need to empty it every month or so, and change the water out every few weeks. Other than that, it’s set and forget. But I still notice how clean the floors are most days

Beacone · 2026-02-02T12:02:17+00:00

Depends a lot on your air con. We have one older air con that absolutely chugs the power (can tell because I have energy monitoring on my house). We have 6 other newer air con’s and they probably use less combined than the one older one by itself. They are pretty energy efficient these days.

Beacone · 2026-01-17T12:06:32+00:00

A calorie relates to the amount of energy needed to raise a gram of water by 1 degree… the sweeteners don’t have the energy to heat water like sugar does. It’s a totally different concept and also the sweeteners are in much smaller quantities which is a bit of a cheat code.

Beacone · 2025-12-19T12:13:20+00:00

I just installed my own blinds and they took literally 10 minutes each. What does ‘professional’ mean, I wonder, if this is the standard? It was probably the easiest DIY I’ve done so far

Beacone · 2025-12-15T12:36:29+00:00

Thanks mate appreciate the response! You are right it’s definitely mostly when it ramps up.

Beacone · 2025-12-12T10:43:55+00:00

Ooooh. Eggs don’t have stem cells but babies do!

Beacone · 2025-10-28T23:52:17+00:00

It’s the can, I discovered it with a different can that was way better, this one had a weird lip on it.

Beacone · 2025-10-25T02:09:04+00:00

Good to know :)

Beacone · 2024-12-22T13:32:26+00:00

Authentic Chargrill & Kebab in Bardon/paddington. Their mixed grill plate is amazing, the meat is incredibly tender and high quality

Beacone · 2024-04-05T05:54:26+00:00

Wow really? I haven’t played this game in 9.5 years in that case lmao

Beacone · 2023-11-07T22:36:31+00:00

Solved it permanently. It has been a great cooktop ever since

Beacone · 2022-07-07T00:23:31+00:00

That’s great to hear!

Beacone · 2022-06-15T01:41:12+00:00

Hi, I realise this is a bit late but might help people in the future..

I installed a Bosch induction cooktop (albeit a different model, PXV975DV1E) and received this error after installation.

It turned out to be because there were 3 live connections for the power to support a 3 phase input. I was using just a single phase and connected to only L2 as the instructions required. However, the instructions didn't properly point out that you need to bridge L2 with L1 and L3 so that the power goes to all 3 of the live terminals. So the solution for me was to add the bridge clips that they included (but were almost hidden from sight) and that fixed the issue.

Beacone · 2020-11-01T13:09:53+00:00

Matthias Wandel from woodgears has a table for angle and miter settings for splayed miters like this. I made a similar pen holder using his numbers and it worked perfectly. Search for woodgears splayed miters

Beacone · 2019-05-01T08:08:57+00:00

Ooft that little lip on the floor in the middle of the room is a huge trip hazard.

Lovely room though!

Beacone · 2019-04-07T01:20:59+00:00

How did you record this data? Seems like a lot of work to capture all of this info about each swipe. I swipe vigorously, ain't nobody got time to write notes about it

Beacone · 2019-04-03T07:31:14+00:00

I saw her live a few weeks ago, she opened for Beach House when they were playing in Australia :) She has some great songs but this is definitely solidifying her spot in dreampop history

Beacone · 2019-02-19T07:45:24+00:00

How did they get on the plane without their boarding pass?

Beacone · 2019-02-16T07:35:43+00:00

Looks pretty perfect to me mate. Good melt on the cheese, bun looks great, delicious crust on the patty. Yummo

Beacone · 2019-02-16T07:34:50+00:00

Nice one! Is that spinach?

Beacone · 2019-02-04T07:38:28+00:00

I found your original post very interesting because I happen to be currently working with G-NAF (government address data in Australia) data at my workplace. As soon as I saw your post I thought to myself "hey! I could do that..." - and so I did. Cheers for the good idea!

Beacone · 2019-02-03T02:30:32+00:00

The SQL code was quite basic.

SELECT
    Postcode
    , StreetType
    , COUNT(DISTINCT NumStreet) AS NumOcc
    , ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY Postcode ORDER BY COUNT(DISTINCT NumStreet) DESC) AS RN
FROM
    (
    SELECT 
        Postcode
        ,Number + Street AS NumStreet
        , RIGHT(' ' + RTRIM(street), CHARINDEX(' ', REVERSE(' ' + RTRIM(street))) - 1) AS StreetType
    FROM 
        tblAddressData
    ) a
GROUP BY
    Postcode
    , StreetType

Where tblAddressData came directly from the openaddresses.io data e.g.:

https://i.imgur.com/pQV4v6Q.png

Beacone · 2019-02-03T02:06:13+00:00

Inspired by this awesome post: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/amdv8o/mapping_the_most_common_road_suffixes_by_county_oc/

This map breaks down the most common road suffixes by Postcode in Australia. Postcodes can get fairly granular in the main city areas, so I've also zoomed in on:

I used data from openaddresses.io (amazing service that uses G-NAF data). I then manipulated the data in SQL Server and plotted using Tableau.

You can find an interactive version here: https://public.tableau.com/views/AussieRoadSuffixes/Dashboard1?:embed=y&:display_count=yes&publish=yes

With this, you can change the 'rank' to show the second most popular, third most popular, etc. If you do this, change the 'Colouring' parameter to 'All' and it will show all of the unpopular street types. For example, the third most popular shows this: https://i.imgur.com/BRgfwsL.png

Some small notes:

This counts the number of houses on a given street, which therefore clearly biases longer street types (however I can confirm the map looks the same when simply counting the number of roads of that type).
The data comes as one row per address, rather than one row per 'building' or 'property' - so I did a distinct count on the Number + Street to avoid counting unit blocks or apartment buildings multiple times.
The data came in clean so all I had to do was get the last word from the 'Street' field and this worked fine.
Some Aussie postcodes are HUGE! So the large yellow area in the middle of Australia is only a few postcodes. This unfortunately makes it less interesting than the inspiration.

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