3) The method described at length in the instructional video doesn't actually work, but it's fun to imagine people trying to make it work.
― Morrie Antoilette (Old Lunch), Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Stairs_(Sleator_novel)― El Tomboto
This sounds like a pretty cool YA dystopia - have you read it? Any good?
(Nothing to contribute about the video itself that hasn't already been expressed by other gobsmacked viewers)
― emil.y, Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
i think (1) is actually the case tbh
same, but even then, it's like...obviously this is a wild ass guess and based on nothing, but consider the probabilities of this stuff happening on accident
0) start with the bulb off1) turn on the bulb for 8 seconds, then off (1% chance of this happening by chance(<<this is a exceedingly generously high estimate)2) after 2 seconds, turn the bulb back on (1% chance)3) after 8 seconds, turn the bulb off (1% chance)
already, we are at a 1 in a 1,000,000 odds of that sequence happening, using conservative estimates (if give a 0.5% chance to the individual steps above happening, it would be a 1 in 8 million.) adding each additional step (at 1% chance of it happening accidentally) makes it 100x more unlikely:
4) after 2 seconds, turn the bulb back on (1% chance)
with this 4th step, we're already at a 1 in a 100 MILLION chance that this would happen accidentally
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
...but then they added maybe a dozen more steps after that? the odds of that happening are so low that i don't think numbers can express it
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
It's better to play it safe and add another iteration or two. Or fourteen. Or seventy-two. Because can you even imagine the resulting catastrophe if someone accidentally restored their bulb to factory settings? Can you?
― Morrie Antoilette (Old Lunch), Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
These are like Anally-Retentive Chef-levels of overprecaution here.
― Morrie Antoilette (Old Lunch), Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
maybe this is genius viral marketing. because now i kind of want to buy one of these bulbs just so i can show someone how to reset it
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
lol I thought the video was just repeating the procedure over and over so that the user would remember it.
― brownie, Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Stairs_(Sleator_novel🕸)― El Tomboto/This sounds like a pretty cool YA dystopia - have you read it?
― RUSSIA’S SEXIEST POKER STAR ELECTROCUTED BY HAIRDRYER (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
1) they were worried about a customer accidentally resetting the light, so they added more steps to make it less likely. e.g., if there were only 3 steps, then someone might accidentally reset their by turning a light on, turning it off 2 seconds later, then turning it back on 8 seconds later. so they added another step to make that more unlikely. with each additional step, a deeply paranoid project manager was still not convinced that the possibility of accidental reset was low enough. so they kept adding and adding. things got out of control.
You make it sound like the project manager was watching some old episode of the Bob Newhart Show where Emily's all "Goodnight, Bob," and he's all "Goodnight", turns off the light and realizes something. Turns on the light and says, "Em, but you said the garbage man –" and back and forth even though the show was set in the 1970s before they had this goddm fucking bullshit.
― pplains, Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
I mean, just think of the consequences if the light were accidentally reset. My God.
― jmm, Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
once you reset a smart bulb there's no going back to life you had
― brownie, Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
The children of tomorrow will snicker when we try to explain that we used to merely flip a switch to turn on a light, and that we certainly never needed to call in a FEMA task force to change a light bulb in the event that one blew out.
― Morrie Antoilette (Old Lunch), Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link
xp you can go back for eight seconds but then it's off to your new life for two seconds then back for eight seconds then off to your new life then
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link
We're at DEFCON 1, people. Start the reset, and may God have mercy on us all.
― jmm, Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:46 (four years ago) link
Eight seconds...two seconds. Eight seconds...two seconds. Eight seconds...three seconds, oh god no are those Cenobites oh god help me help meeeeee
― Morrie Antoilette (Old Lunch), Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:50 (four years ago) link
We have... such sights to show you... for eight seconds... followed by two seconds of torture...
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link
i think my favorite part of the video is how the demo actor hightails it out of the camera frame as soon as their role in the debacle is over
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
'and finally, step 523: wait 8 seconds and then turn the light back on. 1...2...3...*sounds of coat being put on*...4...5...*quickly receding footstep noises*...6....7....8 *door slams*
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
wait...that would mean they forgot to hit the light the last time because they were already out the door
well shit, gotta start the reset process over
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fULNUr0rvEc
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
you need a buddy and a pound each of red beets and fresh asparagus to factory reset your GE smart toilet
― Cecil replies to your e-mails (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
This clearly should've been a HowToBasic video.
― Morrie Antoilette (Old Lunch), Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
to emil.y & bizarro: yes, House of Stairs has stuck with me for ages. Not to spoil the ending but it’s basically a hybrid of Rock Band and the video we’re all discussing here
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 20 June 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/jxo5Yb87Xr— Unusual Videos 🤔 (@UnusualVideos) July 19, 2019
― another no-holds-barred Tokey Wedge adventure for men (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 July 2019 13:29 (four years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/XWGTk9pTJL— Drug Art (@Art_Relatable) July 31, 2019
― Funky Isolations (jed_), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 09:44 (four years ago) link
a+, the true purpose for which extremely high framerate cameras were developed
― another no-holds-barred Tokey Wedge adventure for men (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 10:38 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/LCS0qX6.jpg
― (Appears only as a corpse) (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 August 2019 09:08 (four years ago) link
[continues for 2,000 words]
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Friday, 16 August 2019 09:14 (four years ago) link
still, it's good to see the editors at Conservapedia are keeping going
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Friday, 16 August 2019 09:15 (four years ago) link
Took a picture of myself every day for 10 years. pic.twitter.com/3DYlEYAoXV— Jack Bensinger (@JackBensinger) July 25, 2019
― pplains, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 23:55 (four years ago) link
lol
― ilm jive mind (FlopsyDuck), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 13:25 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEg11pHZhzI
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 23 August 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Jbqbjmp.jpg
― pplains, Saturday, 24 August 2019 13:23 (four years ago) link
ahahahahaha
― Vape Store (crüt), Saturday, 24 August 2019 14:35 (four years ago) link
lolll
― world's #1 piece of shit (rip van wanko), Saturday, 24 August 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrc-AMjhrkY
― del griffith, Sunday, 25 August 2019 01:06 (four years ago) link
if u couldn't find the 'people who seem to have figured out how to live' thread you should of asked, we would of helped u
― McGrief the Crying Dog (Old Lunch), Sunday, 25 August 2019 01:34 (four years ago) link
oh don't think I didn't. it's for pictures, and this is a video. so you're welcome
― del griffith, Sunday, 25 August 2019 02:34 (four years ago) link
p.s. wosop in the house tonight
WOSOOOOP
If, despite my persistent efforts, I do not become some pale simulacrum of this man over the next decade or so, please just bury me alive for I will basically already be dead.
― McGrief the Crying Dog (Old Lunch), Sunday, 25 August 2019 03:18 (four years ago) link
We’ll keep a lookout for your YouTube channel
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 25 August 2019 04:06 (four years ago) link
wosop
― del griffith, Sunday, 25 August 2019 04:42 (four years ago) link
wosop everybody in the house tonight
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 25 August 2019 04:57 (four years ago) link
it's good to see boomba back on the wav, haven't seen him there in a while
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 25 August 2019 04:58 (four years ago) link
WOSOPWOSOP
― jmm, Sunday, 25 August 2019 12:09 (four years ago) link
JMM OTM
― alomar lines, Sunday, 25 August 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
wosopBALLOON
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 25 August 2019 19:15 (four years ago) link
Praying for Bahamas🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/ezo7IW5Ibb— Mario (@OHYESMARIO) September 1, 2019
― big city slam (Spottie), Friday, 6 September 2019 19:23 (four years ago) link
I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of Batman movies and then asked it to write a Batman movie of its own. Here is the first page. pic.twitter.com/xrgvgAyv1L— Keaton Patti (@KeatonPatti) August 13, 2019
― brain dead operatus (FlopsyDuck), Thursday, 10 October 2019 02:27 (four years ago) link