What seemingly backwards solutions have worked for you in life?
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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.
Would you accept a cigarette from Scp-4999?
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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.
To get rid of an emotion I feel it as much as I can, instead of escaping from it.
Similarly to get better reasults I don't focus on the result but on the process itself.
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Would you accept a cigarette from Scp-4999?
Having read that, yes
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Testing should have some specified time windows eh? If the maker knows that the software does a thing at 30 minutes, that should be an intentional part of the test.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Generally you should have a way to directly test that mode or to temporarily āspeed up timeā. Perhaps youād directly manipulate wherever it stores the ālast activity timeā
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Hahaha.
I used to have a home office room, and I bought and installed a whiteboard on the wall, for noting things down, planning, to-do list etc.
For five years, it had a single scrap of paper blue-tacked to it, which read "1) Buy a whiteboard pen".
I eventually solved it by moving house.
Thanks for the reminder. I put up whiteboards for my kids a bunch of years back, and all the pens are dead.
Of course, both kids are in college and I have no use for those so maybe the boards should come down
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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.
Yeah I think people are too stupid on average to understand. Like how kids think pouring water from a short wide glass into a tall glass means there's more water, people think one long line means longer wait times.
I feel like education could mitigate this but at least in the US our education isn't a priority
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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 grew up in Asia and had a chipped playstation 1 as a kid. It allowed it to read copies, was pretty standard stuff over there the copies could be found in legit stores and everything.
Anyway it started struggling to read the CDs. We figured out if we turned it upside down, it would be able to read them no problem. I suspect it was gravity making the lens come a bit closer to the CDs but don't know for sure.
It was certainly funny having it upside down, worked a charm.
