Sabbath mode

#1

Post by edward » Sat, Mar 21, 2015, 3:25 PM UTC

Sabbath mode
en.wikipedia.org

Re: Sabbath mode

#2

Post by brianwawok » Sat, Mar 21, 2015, 4:49 PM UTC

It is interesting. I think elevators in some building will run, but with the buttons disabled. So its like

Go to floor 1

Open doors

Wait 30 seconds

Close doors

Go to floor 2

Re: Sabbath mode

#3

Post by freehunter » Sat, Mar 21, 2015, 4:52 PM UTC

Clever hack, but if you're coming up with ways to circumvent your religion's practices, are you really still practicing your religion?

Re: Sabbath mode

#4

Post by gvb » Sat, Mar 21, 2015, 4:58 PM UTC

Funny true story: My friend bought a fancy new stove. After owning it a couple of weeks his wife commented that the oven didn't work on Thursdays. Odd. So he investigated... and he found that indeed on Thursdays, if he tried to turn the oven on, it reported an error code 5A66.

After a bit of searching in the user's manual, he discovered (a) that the stove had a Sabboth mode (b) the "error code" was actually SAbb rendered on the 7 segment display, and (c) he had not set the day of the week on the stove so it thought Thursday was the Sabboth.

He turned off Sabboth mode and was happy. His wife less so because she no longer had a reason to go out for supper every Thursday.

Re: Sabbath mode

#5

Post by chimeracoder » Sat, Mar 21, 2015, 4:59 PM UTC

Somewhat related: B&H, an electronics store in New York owned by Hasidic Jews not only closes its brick & mortar store on Saturdays, but its website as well: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/

Screenshot for anyone looking at this after 8:30 EDT today: https://i.imgur.com/XvZHDXA.png

Re: Sabbath mode

#6

Post by IvyMike » Sat, Mar 21, 2015, 5:02 PM UTC

TL;DR: Tragic fire caused by a hot plate left on overnight so that it could be used to warm food on the Sabbath.

Re: Sabbath mode

#7

Post by judah » Sat, Mar 21, 2015, 5:03 PM UTC

freehunter wrote: post #3

Clever hack, but if you're coming up with ways to circumvent your religion's practices, are you really still practicing your religion?

Disclaimer: I'm Jewish and religious, but not Orthodox; I don't worry about sabbath mode as I have no problem turning on an oven during shabbat; it's not work.

That said, if you ask Orthodox Jews, they will say it's not circumventing the laws about shabbat. Rather, it's keeping the laws of shabbat -- avoiding all forms of work -- while still living in the modern world. To circumvent the law would be to find a way that allows us to work on shabbat. Shabbat mode doesn't do that.

Re: Sabbath mode

#8

Post by judah » Sat, Mar 21, 2015, 5:04 PM UTC

brianwawok wrote: post #2

It is interesting. I think elevators in some building will run, but with the buttons disabled. So its like Go to floor 1 Open doors Wait 30 seconds Close doors Go to floor 2

Yeah, there are some elevators in Israel that do this on shabbat.

Re: Sabbath mode

#9

Post by evincarofautumn » Sat, Mar 21, 2015, 5:05 PM UTC

Half of these seem quite reasonable—prepare things ahead of time so you don’t need to work on the Sabbath. The other half seem like an affront to God by interpreting his rules literally and then trying to skirt them on technicalities.

Re: Sabbath mode

#10

Post by croddin » Sat, Mar 21, 2015, 5:05 PM UTC

The problem with posting this on a Saturday is that any readers of hacker news that use these devices will be unable to comment.