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I saw this in an elevator in India recently. The third-hand instructions we heard were that you double-click the button to cancel, so all of us computer nerds
by 13of40 4y ago
I saw this in an elevator in India recently. The third-hand instructions we heard were that you double-click the button to cancel, so all of us computer nerds were trying to double-click it like you would a mouse, when apparently it's click-pause-click.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 4y agoI've seen elevators that ignore short presses of buttons. You press the button, it lights up, you release, the light goes off and the elevator pretends it was never pressed. Any idea why this is being done?
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- xboxnolifes 4y agoI don't know why someone implemented it specifically, but I can think of 2 possible reasons: (1) To prevent accidental presses, and (2) prevent maliciously pressing every button quickly. Or a third option: it's just shoddy implementation that happens to have an annoying effect.
- Gigachad 4y agoCould also be a debounce mechanism to cancel out multiple presses too close together which is just a reality on switches even if you physically only pressed it once.
- eric__cartman 4y agoIf you're turning in a crammed elevator you could be momentarily pressing multiple buttons with your backpack. That would most definitely be annoying for everyone.
- saagarjha 4y agoDid you merge two comments together?
- eric__cartman 4y agooh shit I did. I doubt elevators run KDE or have dual core processors lol
- saagarjha 4y agoIf they don’t already I wouldn’t doubt it happening in a few years…