What seemingly backwards solutions have worked for you in life?
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Such as counterintuitive fixes to a problem, or where a mistake unexpectedly results in an even better outcome than originally hoped for.
My example: I fixed a wifi interference problem by adding more wifi interference.
I'm currently staying at a family member's house for a few months, and need to use their wifi to work from home. After moving all my belongings in, I soon realized that I wouldn't be able to work on this network, because of how intermittent the connection was. My phone, laptop, and PlayStation would all disconnect about once every 1-2 minutes. It was so severe that it took me over 2 hours to play a 40-minute video due to the consistent freezing.
And I guess everybody living here just must not use the internet that much, and have just kinda accepted this as a fact of life and nobody's tried to fix it. This would be something I'd normally be able to resolve by myself, but because this isn't a network I own and control, I'm not going to go changing their router settings. And since I'm a guest in this home, I'm not gonna go drilling holes to run ethernet to my room, either.
Using a wifi analyzer, I was able to spot the immediate issue: There were about 30 networks in the area mostly with pretty weak signal, but all on channels 6 and 11. There were only 2 networks using channel 1, and they were weak. The router I'm connecting to is also on channel 11, and I can tell right away that if I can get it to switch to channel 1, I'd be all set. But, since this isn't my network, I can't just tell the router to use channel 1, even though it should've automatically switched a long time ago. But it's just a crappy ISP-provided router, so I can't really expect much of it.
So I hatched up a plan, and took an old router of mine and piggybacked it to the router here at the house. My router uses a web app to control its settings, so all I needed was for the router to get an internet connection via ethernet and I could control it. Once my router was online, I was able to log into it and force it to use channel 11, the same channel as the home's router.
The sudden appearance of a very strong connection on the same channel (since it's placed just a few feet away) caused the home's router to finally switch itself over to channel 1, which was still largely free of any signals. Now the router is working flawlessly, and all my devices, and everybody else's at the house, are staying connected seamlessly.
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Such as counterintuitive fixes to a problem, or where a mistake unexpectedly results in an even better outcome than originally hoped for.
The Opposite. The opposite of every instinct.
George Costanza wasn't wrong.
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Such as counterintuitive fixes to a problem, or where a mistake unexpectedly results in an even better outcome than originally hoped for.
The more I have disconnected from society the happier I have become. I just can't do open hand gestures all of this... Anymore. I'm not doing the Nazi era.
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Such as counterintuitive fixes to a problem, or where a mistake unexpectedly results in an even better outcome than originally hoped for.
Almost anything with managing kids’ behavior.
If you want them not to do something, tell them a bunch of things to do instead. (It may be appropriate to discuss the undesired behavior later).
Want them to talk to you? Listen to them.
Want them to learn a lot and be successful in school? Praise their effort, and not their intelligence or knowledge.
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Such as counterintuitive fixes to a problem, or where a mistake unexpectedly results in an even better outcome than originally hoped for.
I cannot pick a lane at the grocery. My first pick will always be slowest. If I pick one out, then pick a 2nd, my 2nd pick will be last to move. Even an empty lane will suddenly have issues like drawer change, shift change or some other calamity.
I now pick a lane and then have my SO pick any other lane for us to use.
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Such as counterintuitive fixes to a problem, or where a mistake unexpectedly results in an even better outcome than originally hoped for.
Using my phone helps me sleep.
I play a simple grid-based game (crosswords, sudoku) for about 15 minutes and before I realize it I’m out cold.
Every bit of “sleep hygiene” that gets condescended at me only makes my insomnia worse, save for the generalized concept of a routine.
More time in my room helps too, as opposed to less - unfamiliarity and performance anxiety creep up on me.
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Such as counterintuitive fixes to a problem, or where a mistake unexpectedly results in an even better outcome than originally hoped for.
"Drinking water backwards." And no, I'm not talking about an enema.
Say you have the hiccups.
Get half a glass of water. Bend over at your waist like you're about to pick something up off the floor. While bent over, rest the glass against your upper lip and drink the water.
Poof Hiccups gone instantly. I know it sounds insane but it works.
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"Drinking water backwards." And no, I'm not talking about an enema.
Say you have the hiccups.
Get half a glass of water. Bend over at your waist like you're about to pick something up off the floor. While bent over, rest the glass against your upper lip and drink the water.
Poof Hiccups gone instantly. I know it sounds insane but it works.
I’ve heard at least a dozen guaranteed methods for solving hiccups. At this point I’m convinced it’s all placebo, including the method that works for me reliably.
::: spoiler If you must know…
You hold your breath with a mouth full of water, plugging your ears, swallowing very slowly. Hold your breath as long as you can and take a few deep breaths after.
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Such as counterintuitive fixes to a problem, or where a mistake unexpectedly results in an even better outcome than originally hoped for.
i don't use a.i. for searching (until i give up if i can't find it). i feel my vocab increased thinking of similar words to get to the page i want.
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Such as counterintuitive fixes to a problem, or where a mistake unexpectedly results in an even better outcome than originally hoped for.
When I can't sleep, I take my finger and draw infinity symbols in a pillow or the sheet and it always makes me tired. There's some science behind it but give it a try
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Such as counterintuitive fixes to a problem, or where a mistake unexpectedly results in an even better outcome than originally hoped for.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Ton of things in ARMA 3's scripting system due mostly to undocumented or improperly documented commands. Like having a trigger zone that damages the player while in it doesn't work by having them inside the zone (I mean, it does but it will just insta kill instead of slowly dealing damage every tic), instead what works is making a zone for the safe area, and then inverting it for the damage so it only hurts them outside the trigger.
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I cannot pick a lane at the grocery. My first pick will always be slowest. If I pick one out, then pick a 2nd, my 2nd pick will be last to move. Even an empty lane will suddenly have issues like drawer change, shift change or some other calamity.
I now pick a lane and then have my SO pick any other lane for us to use.
There is a solution to this problem. One line that just feeds all the lanes. Unfortunately, the geometry of grocery stores would make it difficult to implement. Also, most people like the illusion of choice.
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Such as counterintuitive fixes to a problem, or where a mistake unexpectedly results in an even better outcome than originally hoped for.
shitpost instead of good posts =
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The more I have disconnected from society the happier I have become. I just can't do open hand gestures all of this... Anymore. I'm not doing the Nazi era.
Consider relocating somewhere safe where people are still humane on average, if you can. Kinda sad and unfair on you to isolate yourself...
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I’ve heard at least a dozen guaranteed methods for solving hiccups. At this point I’m convinced it’s all placebo, including the method that works for me reliably.
::: spoiler If you must know…
You hold your breath with a mouth full of water, plugging your ears, swallowing very slowly. Hold your breath as long as you can and take a few deep breaths after.
:::I agree that most all of them are borderline placebo, but I'm pretty positive that some combination of breath and water lies the cure.
My go-to for curing hiccups is just taking little sips of something and pausing in between
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My example: I fixed a wifi interference problem by adding more wifi interference.
I'm currently staying at a family member's house for a few months, and need to use their wifi to work from home. After moving all my belongings in, I soon realized that I wouldn't be able to work on this network, because of how intermittent the connection was. My phone, laptop, and PlayStation would all disconnect about once every 1-2 minutes. It was so severe that it took me over 2 hours to play a 40-minute video due to the consistent freezing.
And I guess everybody living here just must not use the internet that much, and have just kinda accepted this as a fact of life and nobody's tried to fix it. This would be something I'd normally be able to resolve by myself, but because this isn't a network I own and control, I'm not going to go changing their router settings. And since I'm a guest in this home, I'm not gonna go drilling holes to run ethernet to my room, either.
Using a wifi analyzer, I was able to spot the immediate issue: There were about 30 networks in the area mostly with pretty weak signal, but all on channels 6 and 11. There were only 2 networks using channel 1, and they were weak. The router I'm connecting to is also on channel 11, and I can tell right away that if I can get it to switch to channel 1, I'd be all set. But, since this isn't my network, I can't just tell the router to use channel 1, even though it should've automatically switched a long time ago. But it's just a crappy ISP-provided router, so I can't really expect much of it.
So I hatched up a plan, and took an old router of mine and piggybacked it to the router here at the house. My router uses a web app to control its settings, so all I needed was for the router to get an internet connection via ethernet and I could control it. Once my router was online, I was able to log into it and force it to use channel 11, the same channel as the home's router.
The sudden appearance of a very strong connection on the same channel (since it's placed just a few feet away) caused the home's router to finally switch itself over to channel 1, which was still largely free of any signals. Now the router is working flawlessly, and all my devices, and everybody else's at the house, are staying connected seamlessly.
That's a very clever trick. I didn't know routers could do that.
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Consider relocating somewhere safe where people are still humane on average, if you can. Kinda sad and unfair on you to isolate yourself...
A lot easier said than done for most of us.
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Such as counterintuitive fixes to a problem, or where a mistake unexpectedly results in an even better outcome than originally hoped for.
When I wanted to stop smoking, the idea of never smoking again would make me stressed and make me want to smoke.
The solution was I put "have a cigarette" on my to-do list, at the bottom.
So I never quit smoking, I'm definitely going to have a cigarette at some point, when I get round to it - just after I've re-tiled the bathroom, wrote a novel, made a computer game, taught the cat to play piano, finished a series of 100 paintings, wrote an album of songs etc...
... so it's over ten years since I last had a cigarette, and there's only a thousand or so things to do on my to-do list.
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shitpost instead of good posts =
Who doesn’t enjoy a good
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When I wanted to stop smoking, the idea of never smoking again would make me stressed and make me want to smoke.
The solution was I put "have a cigarette" on my to-do list, at the bottom.
So I never quit smoking, I'm definitely going to have a cigarette at some point, when I get round to it - just after I've re-tiled the bathroom, wrote a novel, made a computer game, taught the cat to play piano, finished a series of 100 paintings, wrote an album of songs etc...
... so it's over ten years since I last had a cigarette, and there's only a thousand or so things to do on my to-do list.
This is pure genius.
