perviouslyiner @ perviouslyiner @lemmy.world

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If it was Ender's Game, you might be better off starting with book two...

that's what Stern said? They didn't get that opportunity.

It's definitely possible to have a hardware token which allows confirming the transfer details - https://www.manua.ls/nationwide/card-reader-security-for-internet-banking/manual

They can’t book 75 people for a train which can only seat 50

The official statistics lists how frequently that occurs.

+1. "oh you'll surely be good if you are early, the train can't possibly already be overcrowded when it arrives"

I suspect the sales website can't actually reserve seats itself, but just passes along the request to some other system, which enters "LOL, NO!" in that field for a train that was long-since fully booked.

My guess is that it printed this "null" reservation slip to let you know that the reservation had failed, because otherwise people would think that the printer wasn't working? It prints the ticket(s), then the reservation(s), then the receipt listing how many things were printed.

They only issue as many tickets as seats

That's... optimistic?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-entry_bookkeeping f.t.w.

It's gotten so good that China might be restricting output to keep the prices high...

(their onshore wind, and pumped hydro storage, are also great success stories, as is the EV industry there)

Like Kenji's smash burgers, "held together with hope and American Cheese"

Would that even work on Indian reservations - can congress override their choices?

Computer equivalent of vacuum decay in our universe...

Project Highrise might fit the bill - it's pretty relaxed, and lasts forever.

Adam is pretty well recognised as a craftsman

Another Arkell v Pressdram response 😂