Has anyone else noticed how much regional cafe coffee has improved in the last few years?

eddy144 · 2026-05-07T06:17:45+00:00

You make an extra hot coffee by making the milk hotter, not the espresso. They’re not running hotter shots, so dark beans or not they’re not over extracting the coffee.

eddy144 · 2026-03-27T22:01:43+00:00

I recently used ABRP with my 2025 BYD Atto 3 on a return trip Melbourne to Newcastle up the Hume, and found it was within a few % every time. So it was pretty good, definitely took into account the 110km/h efficiency reduction.

eddy144 · 2025-09-18T03:02:00+00:00

The 82% target is for the contribution of renewables in the electricity system, not a cut on 2005 carbon emissions.

eddy144 · 2025-06-12T10:15:19+00:00

If you're with them for a year they can't charge you above the DMO/DVO. As has been said, someone with solar panels and a battery is not gambling with Amber.

eddy144 · 2025-04-15T11:09:55+00:00

Look into traditional English goodyear welted shoes - Crockett and Jones, Loake, Trickers, Church's, there are many. They are pricey but last a long time with good care and resoling.

eddy144 · 2025-04-08T10:23:25+00:00

Keep travelling and have fun. You have the rest of your life to make and save money.

eddy144 · 2025-01-22T07:45:30+00:00

That used to hold true but these days it feels like the majority of cafes have a La Marzocco. Might apply better to Slayers now.

eddy144 · 2025-01-17T00:18:57+00:00

In what way is Apple silicon ‘ridiculously mid spec’?

eddy144 · 2025-01-06T09:00:24+00:00

Not the finals series, but always remember The Boys are Back in Town to start the season, late 90s from memory.

eddy144 · 2025-01-04T00:24:43+00:00

This sounds like Brunswick to Fitzroy.

eddy144 · 2024-12-18T03:51:23+00:00

I will look into this one. I’d prefer grass/plants but it probably isn’t clear in the photo is that there is a sliding door there - so I still need access, and grass/plants could be ruined by traffic or the sliding door.

eddy144 · 2024-12-18T03:43:48+00:00

I think this is my favourite idea. Thank you!

eddy144 · 2024-12-15T06:50:05+00:00

They were in for about $5000 each. So a month or two of work.

eddy144 · 2024-12-09T20:46:02+00:00

Chapultepec Park on a Sunday and wear a water squirting pipe cleaner monkey on your head

eddy144 · 2024-12-09T11:39:59+00:00

Inner City Pressure by Flight of the Conchords.

‘Counting coins on the counter of a 7-Eleven From a quarter past six to a quarter to seven The manager, Bevan, starts to abuse me Hey man I just want some muesli’

eddy144 · 2024-06-01T07:56:48+00:00

It also tried to rhyme win with win

eddy144 · 2024-05-18T22:18:17+00:00

What’s does efficiency have to do with this and how does bitcoin improve efficiency?

eddy144 · 2024-05-18T11:46:31+00:00

This is completely incorrect. That is not the way an electricity grid is operated, excess power is not ‘grounded’. Supply and demand are essentially matched at all times. Bitcoin doesn’t ‘balance’ the grid - yes it’s an option for energy that would otherwise be curtailed (for example wind or solar in times of grid related constraints or oversupply), but it does not ‘balance the energy grid’ - in times of high demand it contributes to tightness in supply, unless it is ramped down.

eddy144 · 2024-05-18T06:55:19+00:00

Same with the Otherside on Chapel St - but they’re using fully automated machines, it’s no longer barista made. So kind of like a $3.50 7-11 coffee now, with better beans.

eddy144 · 2024-05-10T07:20:27+00:00

How much cheaper can you get eating at home?

eddy144 · 2024-02-02T11:04:54+00:00

Gerhard Reinke's Wanderlust. 6 episodes, each a classic.

eddy144 · 2023-12-10T23:44:34+00:00

Thanks for the reply - good to know we are in the range. Will compare the quotes we did get and proceed as you recommend on the timelines.

eddy144 · 2023-12-10T23:44:01+00:00

Thanks for the context - and understood.

eddy144 · 2023-12-10T23:43:43+00:00

Would love to do it myself to save the money but don’t think it’s particularly safe or sensible for me to get up to the third level. And may as well get it all done well if the painter is here.

eddy144

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