tiramichu
@tiramichu@lemm.ee
- Comment on This seat reservation doesn't reserve any seats 2 days ago:
In the UK where this ticket is from, if you buy a ticket from the machine in the station it will spit it out in potentially multiple parts.
You can see this ticket says “Valid only with Travel Ticket”, which means this is the second of two parts. The " Travel Ticket" (not pictured) is the one that actually allows you to travel on the train, and the reservation part (pictured) is the one that gives you a seat.
So the mystery isn’t that there is no reservation, but that this ticket doesn’t even need to exist without a reservation. The machine could have just not printed this ticket at all.
- Comment on itch.io was taken down by Funko because of some automated brand protection service 1 week ago:
It’s AIs ans automated systems all the way down at this point. No humans in the loop, just machines talking to machines.
- Comment on Anon goes to the doctor 2 weeks ago:
In this image: Anon doesn’t know how to read subtext
What the doctor said: “It seems you’ve done some research. It’s true that medication often has side effects, but this is not always the case and is often outweighed by the benefits. Let’s set that aside for now, and revisit later.”
What anon heard: “Wow, you avoided my dastardly trap! I’m going to have to be careful around you.”
- Comment on The best Linux distribution for gaming in 2025 2 weeks ago:
I use Pop for gaming and it just works.
As a plus, I also love the somewhat mac-ish UX design, although that won’t be to everyone’s taste.
- Comment on Binary search 2 weeks ago:
It’s not that the cops don’t know how to search a video, they simply don’t want to, because theft of property from you, a working-class nobody, is nothing to them.
- Comment on the council 3 weeks ago:
Heart of the Sea
- Comment on Sony reportedly prepping PlayStation 5 portable, plans to battle Nintendo's handheld dominance 3 weeks ago:
Vita was technically impressive, far more capable than the DS. I’ve got an OLED Vita and I’m amazed how nice it still looks.
But the Vita inevietably lost tp Nintendo, because it struggled with popularity, and therefore struggled with number of games available. It’s a catch 22.
If Sony can make a portable that plays all your PS5 library (without needing to buy any of it again) then they might actually be on a winner.
- Comment on oh no 4 weeks ago:
Ignorance is bliss
- Comment on Scales that refuse to measure if the battery isn't brand new 1 month ago:
There’s also the option of electronic scales which are rechargeable via USB
- Comment on SPOOPY TARDIGRADE 1 month ago:
In English too, the colloquial name for tardigrades is “water bears” :D
- Comment on Anon chooses to live in the moment 1 month ago:
An allegory, perhaps.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 1 month ago:
I appreciate your point, but here’s why I don’t agree with it.
In fiction writing, the ideal case is that the words themselves slide neatly out of the way and become invisible, leaving only a picture in the reader’s mind. Generally speaking, anything distracting is thefefore counter-productive for fiction. Strange fonts and strange typesetting, while interesting, take the reader out of the prose. There’s a reason almost every fiction book you pick up from the shelf uses Garamond.
In an engineering context, remembering “12 eggs, 6 toast” is probably the most important thing, and numeric digits assist in that. In fiction however it doesn’t matter if, by the next page, the reader has forgotten exactly how many eggs there were; the important aspect is to convey the sense of a large and chaotic family, and the impression is more important than the detail.
Thats why although the numbers are important for setting the scene, we really don’t want them to jump out. We don’t want anything at all to have undue prominence, because the reader needs to process the paragraph as a cohesive whole, and remember the scene not the numbers.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 1 month ago:
Cooking is just applied chemistry, after all.
- Comment on No excuse 1 month ago:
I feel like it’s also an outlook/mentality thing.
I personally am happy to take a few extra seconds parking, because I see it as spending time to make life easier, faster and safer for my future self when I come to leave.
Zooming in forwards is like “I care about now more than I care about later”
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 1 month ago:
Context is everything, IMO.
In engineering work numbers should always be digits. In prose numbers should be spelled out.
Breakfast at the Thompson’s was a busy affair; twelve eggs and six rounds of toast for their three sets of boistrous twins.
Breakfast at the Thompson’s was a busy affair; 12 eggs and 6 rounds of toast for their 3 sets of boistrous twins.
To me it’s pretty clear which of those reads better and more naturally as prose; digits really ‘jump out’ on the page, and while that is great for engineering texts, it is incongruent and distracting for prose.
- Comment on Vital Statistics 1 month ago:
Proper massive innit
- Comment on The Elder Gods 2 months ago:
Does a male’s eye look substantially different?
- Comment on Probably 2 months ago:
That’s what you get for being indecisive!
- Comment on The Steam Deck Is Officially Releasing In Australia 2 months ago:
Like, why the hell wasn’t it before now already?
- Comment on The HELLDIVERS™^©®^³ 2 EULA is a URL 2 months ago:
It’s pretty ridiculous.
What happens if you go there and Sony have moved their EULA page and it just 404s? Does that mean there is no EULA at all and you can play without terms? Doubt Sony woild see it that way lol.
EULA should be displayed within the same context it is accepted.
- Comment on Dress Codes 2 months ago:
Your spreadsheet will pierce the heavens
- Comment on It's coming! :( 2 months ago:
Not quite, I don’t think. Enshittification is driven by profit motive, which means if there’s no money at all involved, then there’s no motive.
I guess you chose your words carefully though because the terms ‘product’ and ‘service’ pretty much imply that money is involved somewhere there.
- Comment on Thank you! 3 months ago:
That’s not even on the menu so no you won’t be.
It’s a “choccy (chocolate) coffee”
- Comment on Anon uses a phone book 3 months ago:
In the UK at least, mobile phone ownership per household was only 16% in 1996 and didn’t reach 50% until the year 2000.
To have a phone in '92 you’d need to either be wealthy or have it through a company for business.
My dad had a phone in 95 for work and it was an absolute brick.
As for mobile internet, that wasn’t really a thing until smartphones happened with the iPhone. Yes we had WAP and other precursors to the full internet but it was awful and nobody used it, ever. In 2007 I was a geeky nerd at uni doing Comp Sci and had a Windows Mobile PDA in a belt holster, with full internet! But most people didn’t have Internet until about 2009-10
- Comment on Anon uses a phone book 3 months ago:
In the UK at least, mobile phone ownership per household was only 16% in 1996 and didn’t reach 50% until the year 2000.
To have a phone in '92 you’d need to either be wealthy or have it through a company for business.
By dad had a phone in 95 for work and it was an absolute brick.
As for mobile internet, that wasn’t really a thing until smartphones happened with the iPhone. Yes we had WAP and other precursors to the full internet but it was awful and nobody used it, ever. In 2007 I was a nerd at uni doing Comp Sci and had a Windows Mobile PDA in a belt holster, with full internet! But almost everyone had no Internet until about 2009-10
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Outer Wilds 3 months ago:
Even if the common advice is to avoid spoilers, I’m glad you found your own way to enjoy it :)
I’m sure I could play it again myself and still enjoy the atmosphere, even if the discoveries weren’t new. Or maybe it would be fun to watch a stream of someone else playing for the first time instead!
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Outer Wilds 3 months ago:
For real. It’s an amazing game that just can’t be the same again once you know all its secrets.
I bought it for two of my friends, and they both ended up hating it lol.I don’t blame them, but I think it’s very much to do with the mentality of how you approach the experience.
One friend just got plain stuck and gave up. The other found it frustrating that they were doing the same thing several times over, and just wanted to rush as quickly as they could to make progress.
Personally, I enjoyed the slow pace of discovery. I loved that feeling of being a true explorer, discoving facets of lost civilisation. Watching in melancholic awe as a world crumbled around me. Finding just a small piece of new information was always a joy, and made it feel worthwhile to get there, even if I’d done 90% of the journey before.
Slowly getting richer in a game where the only currency is knowledge.
- Comment on Basalt Baddie 3 months ago:
Hexagons are the bestagons, after all
- Comment on Can you spot the g differences? 4 months ago:
I also got “Pattern on the beach towel is wavy lines rather than staright lines” but now I’m not certain that isn’t just image compression artifacts.
- Comment on perspective 4 months ago:
For you, maybe it was.
The point of good presentation and design cues is that they can make information instantly clear to almost everyone, no matter if their brain is the size of TON 618, or not.