Impatience wrought in stainless steel
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@pluralistic My favorite factoid is that those buttons are generally not even wired to anything, or if they are, they don't function unless the fire dept key is turned.
@dwhisper @pluralistic Not true at all. Yes, depending on where you live, local regulations may require that elevator doors have to stay open (held) for a minimum period of time after opening, though after that minimum door open time has been elapsed, the door close button should work fine as normal. I've never personally encountered a scenario where the door close button is intentionally not wired up to anything inside the elevator (and if it was, I'm sure it would fail an inspection).
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@pluralistic I wonder why only one of the "locks" is labelled. What happens if you use the other lock? Why would you put two near identical and important interaction points next to each other with only a tiny text label to differentiate them?
@LonM @pluralistic <1950's announcer voice> This sounds like a job for ... @deviantollam!
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@pluralistic not the let me out button
the fuck you not getting in now button
@aadriasola @pluralistic Not sure you can jump to that. You can achieve the “keep the door open” action without using that button at all.
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@pluralistic My favorite factoid is that those buttons are generally not even wired to anything, or if they are, they don't function unless the fire dept key is turned.
Mine totally works?
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@dwhisper @pluralistic This has been debunked! https://computer.rip/2023-03-13-the-door-close-button.html
@mwichary @dwhisper @pluralistic
I once saw a detailed write-up of how a single local news story was rewritten, with more and more details added, to become a first-person urban legend (with imaginative quotations from eye-witnesses) about a movie theater demolished while showing "Twister". (Something the print media were fully capable of doing without the assistance of social media.)
Some of this (but none of the detail) is
at https://www.slashfilm.com/1619366/twister-drive-in-urban-legend-explained/
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Impatience wrought in stainless steel
@pluralistic ''chiuditi presto, non far entrare quel puzzone!''