jtwcornell91

jtwcornell91, 10 days ago

@patrick @jon Arles to York is not so bad, although the obvious routing with changes only in Paris and London (11h9m) only works if you leave at 06:43. DB even tells you to take the RER D from Gare de Lyon to Gare du Nord, although it doesn't know the timetable. Still, 2h26m should be adequate even with Eurostar checkin. 30m between St. Pancras and Kings Cross could be a little tight, but there are later trains to York. New York, otoh...

jtwcornell91, 10 days ago

@patrick @jon Oh, Wikipedia tells me it's York, Pennsylvania. That explains the flag.

jtwcornell91, 14 days ago

@jon grep will be tough opponents. They are very good at finding things. #rimshot

jtwcornell91, 19 days ago

@mxp @CerstinMahlow boo, wrong Lions. #Eishockey #SEHV #SIHF #LSHG

jtwcornell91, 1 month ago

@jon looks like a job for @worldbollard

jtwcornell91, 3 months ago

@jon you mention displacing FlixBus trips with more rail capacity; I would have liked to see Intercity bus services on that green comparison chart. Got to be better than autos and I suspect there are places where a direct bus beats a bad train connection (which is an infra problem). But I suspect there's a ceiling on how much travel could be absorbed by buses because fewer people are willing to sit on a bus than a train.

jtwcornell91, 3 months ago

@jon oof. The one time I took FlixBus in Europe was Annecy to Genève, where there was no reasonable train routing.

jtwcornell91, 3 months ago

@byteborg @verbeeld @MHowell they are @worldbollard

jtwcornell91, 3 months ago

@jon Finally got a chance to print it out. I don't have easy access to a printer larger than A3 (and that is b/w), so I'm trying to print the board on multiple sheets. It might be useful to have a version of the board as a 15-page A4 PDF. I produced my own with the unix command

pdfposter -p 891x1050mm BOARD-1.2.0.pdf BOARD-1.2.0_pages.pdf

but have yet to see how the printing works with margins etc (plus the fact that it's actually a US letter printer, not A4). #CrossBorderRail

jtwcornell91, 3 months ago

@jon still having issues with the margins. Might just go get it poster printed at a print shop. There isn't a board v 1.3 about to come out or anything, is there?

jtwcornell91, 4 months ago

@jon isn't there some chance that BSW removing the tankies and other objectionable elements from Die Linke would render them an acceptable option for dissatisfied voters on the left edge of the SPD?

jtwcornell91, 6 months ago

@Andrawaag @mart1oeil @rafa_font @trains @Ruth_Mottram I thought Germany didn't require seat reservations for Interrail/Eurail. The real headache is in France where the reservation supplements are limited and can cost as much as a ticket. (Also Spain where paper reservations are required for fast trains.)

jtwcornell91, 6 months ago

@Andrawaag @mart1oeil @rafa_font @trains @Ruth_Mottram If you go to https://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en and click "Seat only (no ticket)" (instead of the red search button) you can get just a seat reservation (which as you say is not required) with DB for €4.90 per itinerary. (Haven't tried it with the new booking system.) Another perk if you're travelling with kids (in which case you probably want seat reservations anyway) is that a "family reservation" costs only 2x the price of a one-seat reservation.

jtwcornell91, 6 months ago

@Unabart @prefec2 @sandofsky "I would be fucked without my car" says good things about your car in context, but bad things about the built environment produced by car culture.

jtwcornell91, 6 months ago

@taber reminds me of the low tech equivalent in European hotels where the electricity (including the AC) shuts off unless the key card is in a slot by the door. Fortunately any plastic card of the right size works in case you want to go to dinner and not return to an oven.

jtwcornell91, 6 months ago

@brennansv mathstodon.xyz supports LaTeX in their web interface. #mathstodon #LaTeX #TeXAndLaTeX

jtwcornell91, 7 months ago

@Princejvstin @NerdsofaFeather @bookstodon unlike The Fall of Gondolin and Beren and Lúthien, The Children of Hurin is presented as a single cohesive narrative, so that one might work as an audiobook.

jtwcornell91, 7 months ago

@jon @K1ngdaKa88 @aus_der_UBahn ugh. I remember this as the norm in Europe pre-Schengen. So much simpler.

jtwcornell91, 7 months ago

@jon d.h. 18:00 CEST = 16:00 UTC, richtig?

jtwcornell91, 7 months ago

@jon @flaws abandoned because of Schengen, or just a coincidence?

jtwcornell91, 7 months ago

@jon we took the NightJet from Munich to Italy a couple of times: a family of four in a couchette compartment. The 3-year old was fascinated by the bunk beds. It was a great way to go on a Mediterranean holiday without flying.

jtwcornell91, 7 months ago

@jon isn't the 3M Aura FFP3? (My understanding is KN95FFP2 and N95FFP3.)

jtwcornell91, 8 months ago

@jon is the Käsespätzle vegan as well?

jtwcornell91, 8 months ago

@jon does ÖBB do family/group reservations like DB? The ability to get seats together for a family of four without paying 4× the reservation fee was nice. (And the opposite was particularly annoying for the compulsory reservations in France. The kids' Eurail passes were free, but their reservations cost as much as ours.)

jtwcornell91, 8 months ago

@jon my favorite (sorry, favourite) version of this, I think at my landlady's house in Cambridge, was the "modern" kitchen sink with a single spout, which dispensed water that was hot on the left side of the stream and cold on the right.