Deviant Ollam & Howard Payne did a great talk on Elevator Hacking at Def Con 22.
You can catch it at:
https://archive.org/details/Defcon22_Talk29/DEF+CON+22+Hacki...
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHf1vD5_b5I [01:00:15]
List of Special Elevator Modes
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There are many "elevator spotters" on YouTube. I can watch elevator videos for hours. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE9x-S_3sdY It's a very interesting community: See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz9ZzIgyDR8
Seems as good a place as any to OT, but does anyone know of a vacuum tube wiki? I may have acquired some Otis elevator power(?) tubes, but have no idea where to go for part schematics or identification. I'd love to build them into a project, but am not sure where to start.
Going even more OT, I watched a mesmerizing and beautiful youtube video about making nixie tubes.
I love craftsman videos.
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#113One time when working as a pentester, we were doing redteaming (read: breaking into target buildings, physically). Well, they were doing redteaming; I always wanted to, but never quite got the opportunity. One of the ideas thrown around for achieving the objective was to somehow get ahold of an elevator key, stop it, and hide in there until the building closed. I don't know if they actually did that, but it would've…
“Somehow get an elevator key” is very easy - they’re all the same (at least the fireman’s are).
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#114Slightly off-topic, but I'd definitely recommend Colson Whitehead's _The Intuitionist_[1] for anyone interested in the intersection of elevators and speculative mysteries. Never thought I'd get the chance to post this to an HN thread... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intuitionist
It’s really nice to get some fiction recommendations from HN! Looking forward to reading this
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#115my personal favorite is the Sabbath mode https://elevation.fandom.com/wiki/Sabbath_service_(SHO) not to pick on a specific belief system, but it's quite interesting the lengths people go to follow the letter but not the spirit of things.
> s quite interesting the lengths people go to follow the letter but not the spirit of things.
Perhaps it appears that way to you, but what do you know about the 'spirit' of Jewish law compared to generations of life-long practitioners and rabbis?
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
>If God hadn't meant the loophole to be there then he would have used different words. The loophole is divine. One could just as well state that if God had meant the loophole to be there, he would have mentioned it.
When you believe in an omniscient and omnipotent lawgiver, that line of argument is a little weak.
> When you believe in an omniscient and omnipotent lawgiver
Is that assumed in Judaism?
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#117Not sure if it's still true, but if to pick up the emergence phone (but don't push the call button) you could often use DTMF tones to call a number for free.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh, I do get that; I'm more asking why a timeless god wouldn't tell the Jews 4000 years ago to e.g. not construct or partake of social-networking apps (and other such things where they'd have no idea what their God was on about.) An intercessor god dreamed up today would certainly give commandments like that; so why wouldn't a god giving commandments 4000 years ago, but who "exists outside of time", do the same?
Maybe it changed its mind or maybe it drip feeds the laws over time since it knows humans could misinterpret laws for things that do not exist yet. (disclaimer: completely agnostic)
or give laws that are simple to articulate, but cover lots of future scenarios via precedent and emergent behavior.
the golden rule has held up pretty well (in terms of being applicable, not in terms of being adhered to.)
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fandom was formerly known as Wikia, the commercial platform launched by Jimmy Wales. This wiki (along with many others) was launched long before the Fandom name.
yeah i don't know why they switched everything from wikia to fandom i think it was a bad call.
Wikia still exists... for example https://googology.wikia.org/wiki/Googology_Wiki is a fun one to lose an afternoon to.
And you thought Graham's number was big...
> Graham's number is commonly celebrated as the largest number ever used in a serious mathematical proof, although much larger numbers have since claimed this title (such as TREE(3) and SCG(13)). The smallest Bowersism exceeding Graham's number is Corporal, and the smallest Saibianism exceeding Graham's number is Graatagold.
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#120My favorite interview question is "how do elevators work"? 0. If they immediately blurt out something like "I know how elevators work", probably don't hire them. 1. You can find out what areas they're most interested in. Do they jump straight to the physical mechanics? The programming? The UI? The abstraction that they're solving a problem? 2. Eventually, they reach a point where they just have to say "I don't know".…
I did a design interview which involved drawing up an elevator control panel for an apartment building with 1000 floors. Me, trying to leverage my sense of humour I guess (oops) designed a system in which the presumed wealthiest users at the top were instantly recognized with a face scan and never had to see a panel of buttons. The rest were forced to use a basic number pad. Needless to say I didn’t get the job. Doesn’t help that when you google my name my father’s extensive work as a labour organizer tends to spook my potential boss…