• Darren (unregistered)

    The prices at Tayyabs are really good. Despite being in London - not known for anything being cheap or even reasonably priced - those prices are less than what I'm paying in the north of England.

  • Ulli (unregistered)

    In the lower section of the omio page with the train ticket is a FAQ section. The prices there much better: How much does a train journey from Duisburg to Xanten cost? The cheapest train tickets from Duisburg to Xanten start from just €1. On average, train tickets for this connection cost €1. The earlier you book, the cheaper your ticket will be.

  • Hanzito (unregistered)

    Speedrun to the Reichsmark, again?

  • Argonel (unregistered)

    Can we also address the dimensionality of square feet vs square meters? My calculator says that condo is either ~28 m2 or ~4865 ft2 depending on which dimension you start with. Maybe one is measured on the XY plane and the other is on the XZ?

  • (nodebb) in reply to Argonel

    It looks like the actual area of that condo is around 3300 sq ft, so both of those numbers are wrong, not sure what happened there, maybe a database lookup gone wrong, or maybe a caching issue, hard to tell.

    I did check the condo fees BTW, they're $5500/month ROFL

  • (nodebb) in reply to Argonel

    My calculator says that condo is either ~28 m2 or ~4865 ft2

    You need a new calculator, or I do. Mine says that 298 m² ==> 3207.6 ft² (bloody big). or 298 ft² ==> 27.69 m² (pretty damned small).

    Addendum 2025-07-18 08:24: Actually, I'm a mild idiot here. I should have done the m² to ft² based on 452 and not 298, although 298 m² is pretty damned close to the "about 3300 ft²" Mr. TA cited.

  • (author)

    I understand how you make NaN, but how do you make a Garlic NaN? Instead of 1/0 you do 1/-0?

  • no (unregistered) in reply to Remy Porter

    1/0 and 1/-0 are infinity and -infinity, respectively. one possible recipe for nan would be 0/0

  • Daniel (unregistered)

    452.001 square meters are 4865.298 square ft.... Now check the digits after the dot... (452 square meters are 4865.288 square ft)

  • (nodebb) in reply to Remy Porter

    Here is my recipe for garlic NaN:

    #define DOUBLE_AS_UINT64(sign, exponent, mantissa) ((((sign) & 0x1ull) << 63) | (((exponent) & 0x7FFull) << 52ull) | ((mantissa) & 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFull))

uint64_t u = DOUBLE_AS_UINT64(0, 0x7FF /*nan*/, 0x4741524C4943 /*'GARLIC'*/);
double f;
memcpy(&f, &u, sizeof(f));

printf("%e %f %g\n", f, f, f);

    Output:

    nan nan nan
  • Steve (not that one) (unregistered)

    I suppose it's a UK thing but here in the States I'd be pretty happy if my food bill came with a 120.26 refund. I'd never stop eating there.

  • Chakat Firepaw (unregistered) in reply to no

    A correction: 1/0 is undefined, (or ±∞ if you prefer), if you want to get +∞ you need to specify 1/+0. Remember that 0 on its own is neither positive nor negative, (hence the need for the terms non-negative and non-positive).

  • Die Kuhe (kein roboter) (unregistered) in reply to Remy Porter

    As a stranger, I just checked with a dictionary. Is it a garlic grandmother?!?

    I probably wouldn't want to know the recipe... thanks anyway.

  • (nodebb)

    Electronic tips are generally a scam.

    If they accept cash tips, then tips at the payment machine almost always go to the owner. If they're a business that traditionally never accepted tips, but suddenly asks when you check out (e.g., at a store), it's basically always it's going to the owner and NOT the staff.

    Sure, they're supposed to distribute it to the workers, but more often than not, especially on stores that traditionally don't do tips, they're added to make a few bucks more for the owner.

    You can ask the cashier if the tip is going to them. If they say "I don't know" then you can tip 0% easily because it's not.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Remy Porter

    I read through the list and thought that that could only be a menu list from the UK, a sort of bastard offspring of an English pub and someone whose grandfather left India in 1936. Lamb chops, chips, and someone's nan.

  • Michael R (unregistered) in reply to zomgwtf

    Chips are off menu. I was also surprised but my friends said Tayyabs offer them online as deliver. They are probably going with demand/times.

    Remy (and team): if you ever come to London then reach out and let's go there. It's a good place

  • erffrfez (unregistered)

    what is the difference between the 2 garlic grandmothers? the other menu items get combined when multiple, but not them...

  • Fedde (unregistered) in reply to Daniel

    If those are the digits after the decimal separator when converting from non-US units, then perhaps it's somehow similar to the WTF in which German weeks were twisted to start partway through the weekend: someone (understandably) thinking in USian may have mistaken an ISO standard decimal-separating comma for some other separator.

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