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> Maybe it changed its mind Change is a temporal concept. How could it occur "outside of time"?
Why would it need to occur outside of time?
Because the mind in question exists outside of time.
List of Special Elevator Modes
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#142Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming has, in its first volume, a lengthy section on simulating an elevator. It is a single regular elevator (nothing "special" going on as in the post here), but even so, as he tries to make things precise, you realize how much detail is involved, and get some appreciation for the task of programming. It occupies about 15 pages (plus several pages of exercises and solutions).…
Slightly relevant story time:
On one of the better teams I’ve worked with the water-cooler activity was trying to come up with an algorithm to describe the behaviour of the Coca Cola machine in the kitchen.
It was one of those clear plexiglass front machines where after punching in the coordinates of the item you wanted, a mechanical arm would move to the coordinates, take a drink, and place it in the delivery bay at the bottom.
While it would always get the drink you wanted, it would rarely go to the exact coordinates you specified. Ie, if there were three columns filled with coke, and you punched in the coordinates for the one on the far right, the arm may take a can from the center, or left column.
We would often wager a can of coke (“if I can’t find anything wrong in your PR, I’ll buy you a coke”), so we were perhaps drinking more soft drink than was medically advisable, but in our defence:
a) the machine was really cheap (AUD$1 or $1.5)
b) it was an excellent 10min break game
Eventually we thought they had it figured out we would gather and make our predictions, but occasionally there would be an upset that would throw a wrench into the model.
We got to a point where we just couldn’t reconcile the machine behaviour with any kind of coherent set of rules, then one morning we saw the delivery guy stocking it.
After chatting with him we learned our algorithm was more or less correct, but the internal state of the machine was prone to getting out of sync with the actual stock levels, so it would make the “wrong” choice near the end of the refill cycle. Then he gave the engineer talking to him a free energy drink (source of stock problems right there haha)
While we were no Knuths, I love that these kinds of games are so universal among engineers/devs. In fact, if I can get someone to tell me a similar story of theirs in an interview (for a technical role) I’m much more likely to consider them for the position. Curiosity is a powerful trait for a developer.
…and the (simple) algorithm for the machine is: Take from the column with the most stock, if there are multiple columns with the same stock level, take from the column furthest to the left.
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
I took my gap year in israel with a religious Jewish friends. We were slight stoners back then and on sabbath in order for him to get high I’d have to light a bong in a cupboard and fill the cupboard with smoke and then swap places with him. This was multiple times per sabbath every sabbath. I also had to constantly open the fridge for him because of the automatic light. I found these rituals ridiculous (20 years lat…
He should not have done that. In general a Jew is not permitted to ask a non-Jew to do things that are forbidden to him. Some exceptions are things necessary for normal life, that would be impossible to do in advance. A classic example is lighting a fire for heating (back when that was done with a pile of wood), and minor medical needs. (Major medical needs the Jew would violate the Shabbath and do himself.) Getting…
My former (I moved) Orthodox neighbors had some lovely coded language for this sort of thing. "Our house is really hot, do you want to come over?" "We're cooking, perhaps you have some advice?"
I actually enjoyed being the goy for a few years.
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#145Maybe this is common knowledge, but I never knew people used fandom for topics like this. I’m amazed that it had 800+ articles and over 1000 videos on a wiki dedicated to elevators.
My experience at science fiction fandom conventions is that a large proportion of everyone's time is spent in elevators.
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#146my 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.
As if they were so clever they could trick God. Pretty presumptuous and irreverent. Why worship a God you believe is such a gullible chump?
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would it need to occur outside of time?
Because the mind in question exists outside of time.
God cannot be both omnipresent and only exist outside of time.
And God does change his mind more than once in the Bible, so clearly that God at least exists within the temporal universe.
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#148If says this about 'Pet Mode' > Does not infect other passengers if the animal has an infection I think this must be a mistranslation. There are very few infectious diseases that a human can get from being around a house pet. I think they mean allergies.
Rabies?
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Or can be abused, without pet, to go directly to your desired floor without being interrupted by those passengers at other floors.
In Japan, where this pet mode exists, honor and respect of social rules are something, and I doubt you would take the risk to be seen leaving an elevator in pet mode without a pet.
Does a Tamagotchi count? ;)
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#150Maybe this is common knowledge, but I never knew people used fandom for topics like this. I’m amazed that it had 800+ articles and over 1000 videos on a wiki dedicated to elevators.
I was impressed and disappointed at the same time. I wanted to find a page explaining the safeties and failure modes of elevators but I didn't find anything.