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john.fun

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Re: Show HN: Elevators

#201
I used to access locked floors in my old office building by using these algos.

Just ride to the floor I have access too, stay in while the doors close, and it would take me to a random floor. Push open door and voila I was on some random corporations private floor.

Re: Show HN: Elevators

#202

AI use in the creation of this article is inconsequential. There is obvious joy and high fidelity information here. Perhaps some vibe coding made the animations easier to develop, and made it possible to produce this in reasonable time. Who cares. Love of craft is evident. What more proof do you need that this is worthy of human attention?

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Re: Show HN: Elevators

#203
All I want to know is why the heck I can't un-press a button I pressed by accident. This should be very simple. Press once to turn the button on, press again to turn it off.

Or I guess you could do long-press to turn off or something if you're worried about confusing people, but I really don't think that should be necessary. We know how toggles work. The button lights up when it's on.

Re: Show HN: Elevators

#204

All I want to know is why the heck I can't un-press a button I pressed by accident. This should be very simple. Press once to turn the button on, press again to turn it off. Or I guess you could do long-press to turn off or something if you're worried about confusing people, but I really don't think that should be necessary. We know how toggles work. The button lights up when it's on.

What about jerks un-pressing your button cos they don't want to wait? Passive-aggressive button wars breaking out, escalating to active-aggressive wars...

Re: Show HN: Elevators

#205
For a long time, this was one of my favorite interview questions - it is one of those problems that no candidate will ever fully solve, but you see how they think through problems. And it is a problem that seems simple at first but has layers of complexity that peel back like an onion - just like this article does.

Re: Show HN: Elevators

#206

All I want to know is why the heck I can't un-press a button I pressed by accident. This should be very simple. Press once to turn the button on, press again to turn it off. Or I guess you could do long-press to turn off or something if you're worried about confusing people, but I really don't think that should be necessary. We know how toggles work. The button lights up when it's on.

What about jerks un-pressing your button cos they don't want to wait? Passive-aggressive button wars breaking out, escalating to active-aggressive wars...

I don't know, what about jerks pressing every button because they want to make you wait? The downside risk here strikes me as much more unlikely than the upside.

Re: Show HN: Elevators

#207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about jerks un-pressing your button cos they don't want to wait? Passive-aggressive button wars breaking out, escalating to active-aggressive wars...

I don't know, what about jerks pressing every button because they want to make you wait? The downside risk here strikes me as much more unlikely than the upside.

Jerks do push all the buttons to make everyone else wait. It's why newer elevator systems are often configured to ignore those if too many floor buttons get pressed at once.

Re: Show HN: Elevators

#208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about jerks un-pressing your button cos they don't want to wait? Passive-aggressive button wars breaking out, escalating to active-aggressive wars...

I don't know, what about jerks pressing every button because they want to make you wait? The downside risk here strikes me as much more unlikely than the upside.

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Re: Show HN: Elevators

#209
post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yoot Saito, actually, although it does really feel like a Sid Meier or a Will Wright game.

Yoot Tower has been on my bucketlist of games to play for a while now

Waiting for Don Hopkins to jump into this thread, saying how he's going to release the source code soon...

(https://github.com/YootTowerManagement/YootTower if you haven't seen one of his messages on the topic before)

Re: Show HN: Elevators

#210

All I want to know is why the heck I can't un-press a button I pressed by accident. This should be very simple. Press once to turn the button on, press again to turn it off. Or I guess you could do long-press to turn off or something if you're worried about confusing people, but I really don't think that should be necessary. We know how toggles work. The button lights up when it's on.

I lived in a high-rise that let you unselect a floor with a double press. Try that next time. Can confirm it's very nice!
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