To anyone reading this comment and wondering "If Outer Wilds is so great, why isn't everyone talking about it?" that's because anything we can say about the game would be a spoiler.
All these single-handle showers are such an example of designer UX ruling over user input. What ever happened to having either 2 or four labeled handles?
Ah okay, I guess I do have at least three of these directly. Pressure you just have to cheese it with the Hot/Cold taps but being able to regulate and then turn it on or off would indeed be excellent!
Firstly, not a Mr and I think that's fairly clear from my username, so please don't call me that.
Secondly, I don't have two bathrooms, just one that doesn't suck:
Seeing this bathroom layout in house listings so often mystifies me. Like, I see the benefit of having both a shower and a tub, but putting them in the same room means that, in many circumstances, they can't be used at the same time....unless you're very comfortable with your friends and family, I guess.
I think it's more about having access to both than them being able to be used at the same time. Even in places with two bathrooms here, usually one will have just a shower and the other will have both.
What you want to control is water temperature and (separately) water flow rate.
Two taps let you control those but only by guessing the right combination of settings with trial and error. On your first try you'll get one right (the flow rate, say) and mess up the other one (the temperature, say). Try again and you're a little closer, but not perfect.
One-handled taps align their control vectors with the search space's basis vectors. You want more flow? Turn this way, exactly to the right setting. You want higher temperature? Turn this other way, orthogonal to the first, without altering what you had set there. There's no comparison.
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Outer Wilds reference, great game 10/10
Outer Wilds is a gold standard to how i want my video games to be like.
To anyone reading this comment and wondering "If Outer Wilds is so great, why isn't everyone talking about it?" that's because anything we can say about the game would be a spoiler.
Probably doesn't know how to use the seashells by the toilet, either.
I am a simple being. I see outer wilds, I leave a comment and upvote!
All these single-handle showers are such an example of designer UX ruling over user input. What ever happened to having either 2 or four labeled handles?
Four?!?
Don't worry, you'll figure it out.
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Hot, Cold, Pressure, Nozzle output spray type
Ah okay, I guess I do have at least three of these directly. Pressure you just have to cheese it with the Hot/Cold taps but being able to regulate and then turn it on or off would indeed be excellent!
Yes, four.
Ew, shower's over tubs are awful, dangerous, not disability-friendly disasters.
Edit: Also you can achieve the same with three taps when one is the spigot selector.
Look at you mr can afford multiple bathrooms
Us poor normal folk get one bathroom and God damn it I like options.
Firstly, not a Mr and I think that's fairly clear from my username, so please don't call me that.
Secondly, I don't have two bathrooms, just one that doesn't suck:
Seeing this bathroom layout in house listings so often mystifies me. Like, I see the benefit of having both a shower and a tub, but putting them in the same room means that, in many circumstances, they can't be used at the same time....unless you're very comfortable with your friends and family, I guess.
I think it's more about having access to both than them being able to be used at the same time. Even in places with two bathrooms here, usually one will have just a shower and the other will have both.
On the contrary, they're brilliant design!
What you want to control is water temperature and (separately) water flow rate. Two taps let you control those but only by guessing the right combination of settings with trial and error. On your first try you'll get one right (the flow rate, say) and mess up the other one (the temperature, say). Try again and you're a little closer, but not perfect.
One-handled taps align their control vectors with the search space's basis vectors. You want more flow? Turn this way, exactly to the right setting. You want higher temperature? Turn this other way, orthogonal to the first, without altering what you had set there. There's no comparison.
You don't need instructions, it's obvious just from looking. Like the three seashells.