­xkcd thread

How do you adjust two separate controls at the same time while holding a handheld sprayer? Or do you turn one, then the other? Because if so, I can’t see how that could be any faster and more responsive than a single faucet control.

I have a single faucet, and it never takes me longer than a few seconds to achieve the temperature and pressure I want. I can’t imagine anything being more efficient.

I adjust one then the other. It’s better and faster than a unitary control because the unitary controls are unpredictable and nearly useless.

It’s a quote from Wikipedia. Just go to the Wikipedia page on 4D Football (“Spacetime Soccer” redirects here).

OK; let’s just agree that you and I have had very different experiences.

Thanks.

It isn’t faster. But it’s more predictable. And usually I can use both hands; though I may want to use one to test the water.

It’s possible that the ones @Alessan’s used to work better. I’ve never seen one in that style before, let alone tried to use it. It looks like it might have more distinct vertical versus horizonal positions than the ones I have tried to use.

Maybe we can employ an aging archeologist to settle the matter.

I think it is where he finally locates an artifact that intuitively and accurately controls the water pressure and temperature of his shower.

Am I the only one tempted to vectorize that second diagram and measure the length of the squiggly lines?

At first I misinterpreted it as a circuit diagram and Randall had added resistors.

Not a resistor; the wire just does that.

Oh, and

Alternatively: “Fine. Your cat weighs 3.3x1027 Da”.

It’s neat how “normal” masses are about halfway (on the log scale) between the atomic and stellar levels.

I assume the popup text refers to this:

Huh. Not quite how I pictured him, but not far off. And the voice is perfect (though, I admit, I had heard it once before quite recently. But it fit then, too.)

Yeah, but what about the double dagger?

The double negative confuses me.

That’s the kind of editing mistake I would make posting here, where I tried unmatched first and then decided to switch it to no matched and forgot to take out the “un.”

That accompanies a double-dog dare.

The author took the dual wielding feat.

Maybe you’re thinking of the bonsai mountains in Terry Prachett’s Thief of Time.