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Post by sevrinsky »

DonHopkins wrote: post #146
hawk_ wrote: post #6

my 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?

Shabbat observance is a massive world unto itself. It originates in Biblical sources (i.e. "the word of God"), but has developed throughout the entire rabbinic tradition, from the time of the prophets through the Talumdic era, and subsequently to the modern day.

Today, it is universally accepted in Orthodox Judaism that direct active interaction with electrical appliances is forbidden on Shabbat. However, one may benefit from and "use" devices and automated systems set in place before Shabbat, including light timers, fridges, and heating plates.

To be clear: nobody is "tricking" God by using a Shabbat elevator. Rather, this maintains the special nature of the day within the parameters established by centuries of tradition and scholarship ultimately based on God's commandments, while facilitating navigating our modern world.

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Post by mahathu »

1024core wrote: post #68

I found a "mode" in an elevator in India that I have not seen anywhere else: if a destination floor number is highlighted, and you press it twice, it gets cancelled. I have used this magic power just once, when an obnoxious man got on and insisted on having a loud conversation on his phone. Since he wasn't paying attention, I double-tapped his floor number and made him skip. I happened to get off at the floor before…

you can have phone conversations in a lift cabin? don't they act like faraday cages? I always lose connection in mine.

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Post by gregoriol »

1024core wrote: post #68

I found a "mode" in an elevator in India that I have not seen anywhere else: if a destination floor number is highlighted, and you press it twice, it gets cancelled. I have used this magic power just once, when an obnoxious man got on and insisted on having a loud conversation on his phone. Since he wasn't paying attention, I double-tapped his floor number and made him skip. I happened to get off at the floor before…

This could be a nice "learning" trick too: sometimes, you see people pressing angrily on buttons many times when they are in a hurry, this teaches them to cool down, don't press the button many times, it won't help.

Re: List of Special Elevator Modes

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Post by tech2 »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #167
flycaliguy wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. Does…

Your idea reminds me of a recent novella by Cory Doctorow, Unauthorized Bread . In there, there was an apartment tower with an elevator that had separate doors for poor and rich people (with the two groups living on different floors), and the poor people couldn't call the elevator when it was in use by the rich.

Sometimes fiction isn't too far from fact - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/feb/02/penthou...

They've taken the easy way out here by separating the two groups however.

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Post by piceas »

nextlevelwizard wrote: post #155
llampx wrote: post #49

I wondered why, during the pandemic, it wasn't common to let elevators "air out" while they were idle. Given what we know about COVID-19 and how it spreads with aerosols. From looking at this list, it appears that that's not a mode they would have by default.

As someone who works in the elevator industry this list is pretty odd and is missing many modes that I would consider default modes. However to get back to "airing the elevator out". Do you mean just not closing doors after serving a call? Maybe having someone timeout after serving a call to not move? Or actually installing fans to blow out the air?

In my building the elevator returns to ground. My preference would be to simply have the doors left open closest to the source of fresh air.

Re: List of Special Elevator Modes

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Post by MockObject »

teameat wrote: post #137

Another dumb story from "back in my day". When I was in college way back in 1976, me and my Best friend back then both had graduated early and had to live in the dorm the first year until we were 18. The dorm they made us stay in was 6 stories and had a crappy old elevator. Being a couple of goofy hacker types with nothing better to do on a weekend, we figured out how to get up on top of the elevator and to use the a…

I don't know why this excellent story is getting downvoted. Thanks for sharing it. It's great that she had a good sense of humor about everything.

Re: List of Special Elevator Modes

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Post by praptak »

AnssiH wrote: post #179
praptak wrote: post #173

The elevator in the apartment building I currently live in has a quirk which adds ~2s to the travel. If you know this quirk you can save the ~2s on each use. So if you just pick the floor then it waits 2 seconds before closing the door. Obviously the elevator waits for the door to get fully shut before it starts moving. If you first press the "shut door" button and then the floor button, then the door shuts within an…

Interesting. Mine has an even longer delay than 2s (3-4s?) so I always press the close-doors button which removes the delay, but it never occurred to me I could shave some additional milliseconds off by pressing the close-doors button before the floor selection button.

In my case pressing the close-doors button after the floor button does not do anything - it is as if the floor button sets the timer on the doors, which then cannot be changed by the close-doors button.

Re: List of Special Elevator Modes

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Post by LegitShady »

michaelhoffman wrote: post #18
hawk_ wrote: post #6

my 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.

The prohibition is on doing work generally, with a specific prohibition on kindling a fire, which was quite a lot of work millennia ago. Does using a device that allows you to avoid walking up many flights of stairs really violate the spirit of a law prohibiting work on the sabbath?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39_Melachot

It’s not quite as you say. There are more specifics involved than just ‘work generally or kindling a fire’ - but few people except religious Jews would care about the details.

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